Since eons, this aspect has been something of a debate that whether, hobby plays any role  or paves way in choosing a career.

However, it has to be understood that, before reading further, circumstances and situations and conditions play a role in this aspect. The beautiful thing is that in the modern era where technology and cross culturing is very high and borders are being erased in a sense with the sophistication that is available, there are many careers available to choose from.

Now, “Students spend time,  on their interests and hobbies after school hours. It may not remain as a hobby when they grow up.” This particular sentence is true to an extent. In this rat race of life, importance or stress is being given to the marks gained on papers but not for the knowledge of the student. This holds true for 65%-70% of the students in India.

Now, a hobby can be of a temporary basis of a very short range or a mid range time length and the second one a long range, meaning, the hobby is not going to change till a very long time even if the individual chooses something else as the career path.

The people (Teacher, Friends, Parents, Relatives, Cousins and some times strangers) involved with the individual and also the interest on the hobby of the individual involved combined together or separated differently plays a role of making way for the career choice.

Now, what has to be understood is how much the child is interested in a hobby to make a career out of it and second how much the child is ready to fight for what he believes in of making his hobby as a career. This happens in 3 stages:

1. Interest = This the first thing or the base to the other 2 things needed. By having the interest to make a career out of the hobby the individual is interested; the person will be equipped with looking at things from a different perspective or viewing from heart. This gives the individual  a chance to portray feelings and emotions of the hobby he/she likes into thousand words. This interest gives them a chance to play with the skills and understand that beauty is not only in the bigger things but also in the lesser things too.
2. Hobby = This makes way or takes on the pathway for the individual to be into the career of his choiced hobby. This brings the ability or abilities that are needed by the individual  to be so. This gives the individual to explore and expand the borders and horizons of making his hobby into the career. In this stage the knowledge of being such, expands and the individual starts portraying the talent ranging from, to an extent to advancing to artistic in nature.
3. Passion = This is the ultimate thing or step to happen i believe just as a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. This is the stage where individual becomes the master of the trade of his hobby which he is very passionate about. There are many technical and academical aspects that comes into culmination that starts in the 2nd step for the individual. Mentoring, Tutoring and sometimes Coaching also plays a key role in this aspect.

Therefore, i personally feel like to summarise that, “Treasure is, where the Heart is.”