P2Q5 example answer

‘Choosing a future career should be based on helping others and making a positive contribution to society, not achieving status or making lots of money.’

Write an article for your school or college magazine in which you argue your point of view on this statement.

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Choosing a future career should be about helping others not making lots of money.

This is the golden age of greed and misplaced ambition. In our generation – Gen Z – morons today care more about picking the career with the highest salary or the coolest sounding name rather than helping the brotherhood of man. The antithesis of our ancestors like Mary Seacole and Martin Luther King. Heroes that spent their lives dedicated to helping others less fortunate than themselves. Nowadays, with the likes of Kim Kardashian, wealthy who became famous by parading her silicone implants all over the internet, we have become lackadaisical. We no longer want to choose career paths that are rewarding to society. Do we? We would all rather spend our time gathering up followers on TikTok or Instagram! It’s paradoxical! The degradation of our generation is alarming and I worry we may be too far gone.

In light of this, I vehemently feel as though we should discuss the root of the problem: social media. Studies have shown that there are over 5.17 million social media users in the world today. We spend our days texting and posting and idolising celebrities who have profited from the alchemy of turning good looks into wealth. Our generation has lost any and all good role models to teach the benefit of a career that helps others. We have become obsessed with the monopoly of career paths rather than the wellbeing of the human race. Does this not worry you?

Building on this, there is a plethora of career paths out there that are dedicated to bettering society. To name a few: Medicine. Law. Education. All these pathways could make a positive contribution to society. Is this not why we were put on this Earth? To help others, not to help ourselves. Furthermore, the underfunding and understaffing in the NHS has caused an unimaginable effect on our society. Patients – I’m sure we have all heard our parents, at one point or another, complain about the endless queues at the A&E department at night. Or even the nurses striking due to their lack of pay. This very reason is why we must all do our part. Do our part to help the sick people left untreated. Do our part to relieve the fatigued nurses in the NHS. Do our part to save mankind.

While I know some of us in this generation would argue that they are not responsible for dedicating their entire careers to improving society, they would argue that their own wealth and happiness should be their only concern. That this view I cannot display to you how myopic this view is. The idea that wealth can breed happiness is all just a fabricated story sold by the media. To cram the stupid, naïve Gen Z, as they would call us, of their time. Forget.

It’s time that would be better spent on leaving a lasting impact on society. Wealth is only temporary. You cannot. We cannot leave this world with it. Therefore, we should spend the little time we have carefully choosing career paths that benefit society. This means helping Year 9s pick GCSE subjects that are not based on wealth but on helping others. This means taking a leap and sacrificing a life of pure wealth for oneself for a standard human-rights-abiding life for all.

In the end, we all have a choice to make. Whilst we are still young and have our whole lives ahead of us, we can be Kim Kardashian or Martin Luther King.