Alter Your Traditional Perspective
By ENDAR HARRY YOKO

Idealism to some extent has been adherent to recently graduated students. Most even put it before others. In employment seeking, for example, many still oversee the current and impending reality. It is not wise ―to reckon the current reality of scarce employment opportunities― not to think of other available chances. Many factors influencing students to be adamant with such stance including academic competence, environmental demand, and doubt of achieving success as choosing undesirable career. A breakthrough and courageous action are required to be taken in order to achieve the promising future.

When students still study at senior high schools, hopes and expectation of achieving a successful future has been instilled and plans to reach that have been waged as well. The youth duly have high hopes and expectations aiming to build and nurture motivation as the basic capital to get ahead. Prior to putting them into action, a constructive and well-arranged planning is required to be taken since it will be the guidelines where they are going. By the time enrolling universities, they, therefore, have already possessed insight of faculties to study in. they, as the result, focus on what they have already desired and aspired. Students in such a way bone up to overly master the courses hoping to be competent and it may consequently ease them to have a job related to it down the road.

Environmental influence of family, friends, and society may also take part in decision making regarding education and career. For Indonesian families, it would be pride if one of the family members serves as a civil servant, military, or police officer regardless how much they earn. Social milieu apparently contributes a peer pressure to make students not to attend the current and impending reality which in my outlook is no longer relevant nowadays.

Sometimes we are worried about branching out into uncommon ways. Since the perspective has been robustly inculcated in the early stages, it is therefore elusive to change or let alone totally efface it. I can still recall it very well how my parents brought me up. They kept on instilling their children with things about working as a civil servant and the like. It is right in one hand. Indeed working as a civil servant provides a lot of benefits especially in the retirement period; people don’t need to get dizzy thinking of daily fulfillment since the government will continually allocate some of the budget for this post until the doom comes to you. In the other hand, not teaching other skills will be disadvantaged for the kids because they do not have other skills unless serving as a civil servant. Teaching the children other skill like entrepreneurship could possibly do as it will be prevention in case of failure of achieving that or considering other possible employment opportunities overseas.

Time keeps on changing and the population is progressively growing. Widely open you eyes and envisage the world, keep a breast of the news the skyrocketing oil prices will likely lead to recession of the world’s economy posing many people unemployed. Do not compete for the limited posts among the huge number of contenders. You should be realistic. A lot of offers and chances beyond this scope you could pursue and grasp them. It is simply wise and brilliant if you are willing to contemplate and mull over it that there are lots of more things transcending your perspective.