In Smolensk, vocational guidance trainings for schoolchildren are held

In the profile class of the Investigative Committee in school No12 of the city of Smolensk, an unusual career guidance training was held. It was conducted by psychologist Karim Leonov, a person with a non-standard approach to choosing a profession.

Karim began the meeting with a provocative statement:

- We choose our future profession at the age of 6-8 years. That's when we first dream of becoming astronauts or doctors, and then our environment begins to adjust those dreams. Parents, teachers, friends tell us, “It’s hard,” “You can’t do it,” “You’d better choose something more stable.” Instead of a doctor, we are an accountant who hates numbers.

Leonov offered the children a simple experiment: to remember their childhood desires and write them down on paper. It is important to separate what we want from what others want for us. Adults often advise children to follow the beaten track simply because they are afraid of repeating their own mistakes.

The main thesis of the training: happy are those people who do what they love.

Special attention was paid to the issue of independence. Leonov explained that parents often make decisions for their children not out of harm, but out of fear. To avoid this, you need to learn to argue your choice. For example, he advised a girl who dreamed of becoming a singer to start developing her voice right now to prove to her parents that she was serious.

- And if someone tells you that your passion is useless (for example, music), then perhaps that person once missed his opportunity and now fears that you will go the same way.

The training showed that the profession is not so much a source of income as a way of realizing the personality. The psychologist urged the children to think: are they ready to devote their lives to unloved work for the sake of stability? Or is it better to take a chance and try to find a business that will bring joy?

- The choice is always yours. Everything else is the fear of those people who are afraid that you will succeed in the same way as they failed, Karim Leonov summed up.

The project "Navigator of professions "Business on the shoulder!" is implemented with the support of Rosmolodezh. Grants.