Sharing at an admissions consulting seminar, Ng.H.D., a female student who just passed the 2024 high school graduation exam, said that she registered for more than 30 professions because she did not know what she liked or wanted.

D. confided that he had good academic performance and was a good student throughout his high school years. However, for the past 12 years, since starting school, D. only knew how to study and study, studying to get high scores in exams, but he had no idea what he liked, what his strengths, abilities or passions were in any field.

"I only know how to study. I get high scores in every subject and good scores in every exam, but I really don't know what my strengths or interests are. So when I applied to university, I chose all the majors I was familiar with," D. said.

When talking about her greatest passion, D. was somewhat confused and hesitant. After a while, the female student confidently confided: "I don't like anything, I just love money. What career should someone who loves money intensely choose?"

"If you love money, what job would you do?" D.'s straightforward question may shock many people, but in fact, it is the concern of many candidates before choosing a major or career.

In many university admission programs today, there is no shortage of questions about pursuing a career to have a high income, wondering whether it is necessary to study a lot, whether it is necessary to pursue a passion or just need to earn a lot of money... from candidates.

Those questions also partly reflect the reality that many 18-year-olds right at the threshold of entering adulthood do not know their own strengths, interests, and passions.

This is also reflected in the fact that many candidates choose a random career, choose a "hot" career, or simply choose based on what their parents or friends say... rather than based on understanding their own abilities and tendencies.

"If you love money, what career should you choose?", the seemingly shocking question of the female student, but according to Mr. Tran Anh Tuan - Vice President of the Ho Chi Minh City Vocational Education Association - is actually an old question that has existed for a long time.

Mr. Tuan said that the future of each person depends on the career we choose. However, the important thing is not whether the career makes a lot of money or creates a reputation or not, but whether the career is suitable for you or not.

Only with the perspective of "professionalism" in career choice, any profession and excellence in that profession will be the deciding factor on the path to success.

Mr. Tran Anh Tuan emphasized that when entering the labor market, success is determined by knowledge, qualifications, skills (knowing how to apply technology, understanding a foreign language) and always adhering to professional ethics, awareness, discipline, etc.

Therefore, choosing a career is choosing a future for yourself, or it can be said that it is choosing the most important things for a future journey.

This career expert stated that in modern life, it is very normal for students to have dreams, ambitions, and goals to strive for a good job, high income, and worthy position... and should be encouraged.

But more importantly, each person must know how to turn dreams into reality through practical actions and specific work.

To do this, it is necessary to have a learning process and achieve good career results to create a solid foundation, which is the most basic condition to open up the future for each person.

Along with that, during the practice, we must also constantly improve our knowledge, update new information technology, foreign languages, communication skills, thinking, dynamism, discipline... to improve and be more suitable for each time.

From another perspective, according to some education experts, the reality of "not knowing what she likes" of the female student is actually the state of mind of many of our students today.

Many students like D., since childhood, only knew how to study and study, they are good at everything, their scores are 9 or 10 in every subject, their report cards are neat and shiny, but looking back, they don't know what they want, what they like, what they are good at.

Education beyond the race for scores seems to not help children understand and awaken their inner dreams and desires?

When bringing the "Design for Change" movement - the world's largest children's movement to Vietnam - educator Nguyen Thuy Uyen Phuong once shared that when asked what children were concerned about, worried about, and desired about world issues, children from many countries answered very naturally, very knowledgeable, and very interested in social issues and the community.

But Vietnamese children are not. Most of them express concern about their grades, just want to get 10 points or speak out about having to study too much, they just want time to play with their phones and iPads.