Which Job/Career

[Guest Kaur89]

I'm not sure if this is guna make sense, but Sikhi wise, what sort of job is best... I know all jobs have downsides and advantages e.t.c. ...

For example is it better to have a job that involves service (seva) e.g. nursing ?

[Guest Guest]

Nursing is good but due to the nature and timings of the job, isn't very popular.

On the other hand Teaching is considered more respectful. You can be a school teacher, college lecturer, professor

or self employed tutor.

Benefits

1. Fixed Timings

2. Less number of working hours

3. School have a better work environment

4. Once married, a woman can work as well as manage home affairs with reasonable ease

5. If in India you can get your kids admitted through staff quota system in the same school or college.

[Sikh_Soldier]

Become a doctor, maybe a surgeon it's a shame only 7% of all surgeons are female. :D

[Singh559]

I want to become a doctor. We'll see how it plays out, two courses are very hard though and require more work than you would think you needed for it. Some people are gifted with photographic memory so it's easier for some. For those of us who aren't, organization nand consistent review/reading is needed.

Law is a realistic back-up and doesn't require any very specific courses other than critical thinking/english classes.

As for what I wanted to do as a kid.

If you're from the USA, nurses have great pay regardless to the demand in timings.

[SunSingh]

http://calnewport.com/blog/

has some good guides on choosing.

be aware with law that sometimes there are serious ethical issues for sikhs. for example, we are not supposed to help people get divorces, but many firms do family law so you wouldn't be able to work there.

[Guest Guest]

I am a final year med student and I would not recommend medicine as a career to anyone who wants to follow tat gurmat. You will have to work extremely hard, and your naam bani in the daytime will suffer as a result.

I wouldn't recommend law either as it is a slightly dishonest profession. Find a career in something where you still have time to do bani in the day.

[PAL 07]

Gurbani says make God your employer

[Guest Me]

I think teaching is the best :-D for your sikhi and for bringing up children.

[Guest Bloom]

In My Opinion,

What Ever You Choose To Become. Also Simultaneously Work For Khalsa Cause. For Example: If You Become A Nurse/Doctor Etc; In The Hospitals Or Wherever Also Educate On Sikhi And The Importance Sikh Patients Have With Sree Kakaar Sahib Jees, Sree Kesh, Diet Etc. Implement Policies Etc. If A Lawyer; Fight For Khalsa Cause. If A Teacher, Also Teach Students On Sikh And Sikhs And Sikh Identity Etc. If A TV Reporter, Wear Sikh Baanaa And Represent! ETC! Whatever You Choose To Do, Also Represent Sikhs And Fight For Sikh Recognition And Cause! EVERYTHING In Sikhi Benefits Not Only Sikhs But ENTIRE Humanity! So It Is VERY IMPORTANT That Khalsa Is Shared Worldwide In ALL Institutions, Policies, Examples, Governments, Medias, Role Models, Representatives, Organizations, Curriculums, The Masses ETC!

Choose Something You Will Enjoy!

Guroo Sahib Bless !!!!!

Chardhi Kala !!!

[Harjeet]

Why do we get jobs? Why aren't we as Sikhs good at everything? like our Guru wanted us to be? Why are there so many specialists? Why do we keep having go to so many departments? God knows everything, and God lives in our hearts. Why aren't the Sikhs of today providing for others? How did we get so dependent? Why do we take orders from those who do not even know who the Guru is, let alone follow the Guru!

We don't need to get a job, because the Guru already gave us one! We have work to do. God brought us here to sort ourselves out and to help out the whole of humanity at the same time! Why are we so limited? When our Guru is infinite potential?

Just think aslong as you need money your dependent on a manmukh made system. People die because they don't have enough money, yet we have enough food and water for everyone! Do you know how rediculious that sounds? That people starve even though there is enough food for everyone! We have the insignia of the Lord embedded within our hearts, yet we are not qualified? We must gain qualifications? We are not experieced? What better experience than life itself!

People work so hard, for something which does not even go with them in the world hereafter. And how little time we spend focused on the Guru, our true goal. From which all knowledge and wealth derrives! How little time we spend with our families, and community, but know we just work for money. "you can't do anything without money" so they say.

Just think aslong as we live our life this way, if we just accept "oh well thats just the way things are" Well i say NO! We will never get to God this way. We need revolutionary thinking! As Sikh's we should be able to do everything, we should be Warriors, healers, Teachers, everything etc, but of truth. Teaching truth and not the lies tought in school.

Schools teach theories, and a materialistic way of life, as if we don't know the answers. But in Sikhi, Guruji actually gives us the TRUTH! And all the answers to life!

We think we have got no power, but Guru lives inside us, we have all the power in the world. We really need to change the world. But remember the Guru says conquer your mind, conquer the world! How can we ever conquer our minds by taking orders by manmukhs, and following primitive systems, when know we have the Guru help us!

Do you really think God put us here, so we could get some slave job? We work for God, we do not work for anyone else. But when you work for God, you work for everyone, because God is everyone!

Doctors mean to have pure intent, im sure they want to help people, and same with teacher, sure they want to help children, but its not the right way. They don't tell you about the creator of the universe, they don't teach us the truth of where we came from, they just say we are an accident, and that we evolved from apes. Doctors only help the pharmaceutical companies, they prescribe drugs, which cure the symptoms, but we forget the root of the problem. All diseases come from our heads, because of our karma, we got do sort out our spirituality not do drugs. There are many alternative therapies that work better than anything a doctor can do, but doctors are never taught this. The military has many cure to things, we don't even know, but if we could ever cure all diseases, then that would be the end of the big pharma companies. They would go out of business and they don't want that. It's a money making scam!

So we as Sikhs need to get out power back, we need to become leaders not sheep! Why aren't we getting taught sikhi? by Sikhs? I remember when they were teaching "sikhism" in school and they said the Sikhism was a combination of Islam and Hindu. TOTAL RUBBISH, and a fabricated lies. But the teachers don't know any better. Its the people who make the curriculum who on purpose dish out this rubbish.All in the name of control, so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer! Do they teach us anything that would help us in life? All they teach is how to pass an exam, which is just remembering information, thats not learning!

The system is based on scarcity, like if you get a job it means you have potentially taken that job away from countless other people! If you buy a house, you have taken it away from other people who may of wanted it do and all the other things im sure you can think of. But the thing is it doesn't have to be this way there is enough for everyone! God always gives, we must take to God!