Part One — Before You Choose

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Read this part first, whichever class you are in: it is about you, not about courses.

In this part

1. Why to read this early — whichever class you are in
2. A word about the word "career"
3. Lesson one — Why choose at all?
4. Lesson two — Why does everyone say engineering and medicine?
5. Lesson three — The difference between hard and wrong
6. Lesson four — Nobody is only one thing
7. Lesson five — What actually decides how well this goes
8. Lesson six — For the student whose family has already decided
9. What suits me
10. How to choose a career
11. Why career awareness matters, and why Class 8 is not too early
12. Six career myths Karnataka households believe, tested against the data
13. High-salary careers after Class 10, honestly
14. Why we plan on the low end of every salary range
15. Two habits worth building now