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Bengaluru: Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions in a person’s life. Yet, for most people, it still feels like guesswork. Marks, trends, peer pressure, “safe options,” or what seems popular trends at the moment these are the forces shaping decisions. Traditional career guidance systems haven’t really solved this problem. In many ways, they’ve only repackaged it. It’s time to rethink how we approach career decisions. The Problem with Current Career Guidance Systems Most career guidance today follows one of these patterns 1. One Size Fits All Advice Students are often pushed toward a narrow set of “acceptable” careers engineering, medicine, government jobs, or trending fields like data science regardless of individual differences. 2. Over-Reliance on Marks and Aptitude Tests Scoring well in a subject is treated as a signal for career fit. But being good at something doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll enjoy it or want to build a life around it. 3. Surface Level Personalit...

  Being a veterinarian is a very passionate and compassionate job by itself. Veterinarians are trained to communicate with the patient owner and examine the patient to come up with a diagnosis and treatment regime. There are various diversities a veterinarian can venture out apart from the regular small and large animal practice, viz. disease diagnosis, vaccine production, pathology, poultry sciences, dairy industry, applied sciences, laboratory animal, one health programs, wildlife, forensics etc. Career of a  wildlife veterinarian:  I have chosen my career to be a wildlife veterinarian, wherein I get to practice with wild animals both in captivity and free-ranging. My inspiration started when I was in school where my father took me to the forests of the western ghats for his research projects. As my interest grew, I started going for elephant, and tiger census in the western ghats and then volunteered with CWS for a while. In the meantime, I started to pursue veterinary...