What's Your Life Ambition? (The Multipotentialite Series 1)
When we were little, right from primary school, we were asked what profession we wanted to do when we grow up. A lot of us replied with what we thought was choice professions e.g. Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer, Architect, Journalist etc. This trend continued to Secondary school wherein you were told to choose a department based on your interested profession or ambition, as it was so called. It was either you picked the Arts, Sciences or the "Commercial" department. So your life, education wise, was already being steered in a particular direction. By then, every student was expected to have a certain profession as your ambition in life. At this stage, if a student was asked what his ambition was; he was expected to give a definite reply, failure of which he was termed a non-serious element. It didn't occur to those asking the question back then that we might later grow interests in more than one profession or that the inability to give a definite answer was not bec...