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A vocation is a career or calling and the word is derived from

the Latin vocare, which means "to call." Vocational guidance

means helping someone find his or her calling or at least a

suitable career choice. Vocations or careers can be loosely

categorized into areas such as service, technical, mechanical,

creative, health and business.

Vocational training rather than vocational guidance is availableat career colleges and this is usually for entry-level careers. For

example, a career college with a health vocational curriculum

may offer education and training programs for nurses aide and

medical assistantcareers, while business-oriented vocational

schools may have marketing assistant and bookkeeping

program offerings. A career college orvocational schooldiffers

from regular colleges and universities as the focus isn't on

academics, but rather on training students for a specific career.

Vocational or career colleges are also sometimes referred to as

community colleges ortrade schools.

Vocational guidance is often started in high school although

some high schools also have vocational training programs.

Vocational exploration courses offer students the opportunityto research different career possibilities as well as learn which

vocational areas they have aptitude or talent in. For instance,

many vocational guidance classes give tests to the students

that test their ability with numbers, words, mechanical

concepts and many more subjects. Tests designed to measure

an individuals personality traits, intelligence quotient (IQ) as

well as his or her main values and interests are administered

and analyzed by career counselors.

Once career counselors and the students have looked over the

test results, career options can be chosen that fit best with each

individual. Vocational guidance doesn't stop there as many

other considerations must be made when deciding on a career

direction. The type and number of years of education must be

considered.Salaryand working conditions are other important

considerations in career selection. The likely demand for the

occupation in the next decade or more is a crucial element

when choosing a vocation since this affects the likelihood of

finding jobs in a certain career field.

Vocational guidance isn't just for high school students. Rather

it's for anyone either starting a career or changing careers.

Some people may have several different careers in their life,

while others may stay in the same field during all their working

years.

The Consolation of Philosophywas written during a one-year

imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial and

eventual horrific execution for the crime oftreasonunder theOstrogothicKingTheodoric the Great.Boethius was at the very

heights of power inRomeand was brought down by treachery.

This experience inspired the text, which reflects on how evil

can exist in a world governed by God (the problem of

theodicy), and how happiness can be attainable amidst fickle

fortune, while also considering the nature of happiness and

God. It has been described as "by far the most interesting

example of prison literaturethe world has ever seen."[4]

Even though reference is often made to God, the book is not

strictly religious. A link is often assumed, yet there is no

reference made to Jesus Christ or Christianity or any other

specific religion other than a few oblique references to Pauline

scripture, such as the symmetry between the opening lines of

Book 4 Chapter 3 and 1 Corinthians 9:24. God is however

represented not only as an eternal and all-knowing being, but

as the source of all Good.

Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself

and Lady Philosophy. She consoles Boethius by discussing the

transitory nature of fame and wealth ("no man can ever truly

be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune"), and the

ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the

"one true good". She contends that happiness comes from

within, and that one's virtue is all that one truly has, because it

is not imperilled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Boethius engages questions such as the nature of

predestinationandfree will, whyevil men often prosper and

good men fall into ruin, human nature, virtue,andjustice.He

speaks about the nature of free will versusdeterminismwhenhe asks if God knows and sees all, or does man have free will.

To quote V.E. Watts on Boethius, God is like a spectator at a

chariot race; He watches the action the charioteers perform, but

this does not cause them.[5]On human nature, Boethius says

that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to

wickedness do they sink to the level of being an animal. On

justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated

with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and

patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor

and criminal.

In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions

without reference to Christianity, relying solely on natural

philosophy and the Classical Greektradition. He believed in the

correspondence between faith and reason. The truths found in

Christianity would be no different from the truths found in

philosophy.[6]In the words of Henry Chadwick, "If the

Consolationcontains nothing distinctively Christian, it is also

relevant that it contains nothing specifically pagan either...[it]

is a work written by a Platonist who is also a Christian, but is

not a Christian work."[7]

Philosopher

Boethius, was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was

born in Rome to the ancient and prominent Anicia family,which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and

many consuls. Wikipedia

Born:480 AD, Rome, Italy

Died:524 AD,Pavia, Italy

Spouse: Rusticana

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Parents: Manlius Boethius

Boethiuswas a Roman mathematician and philosopher who

wrote texts on geometry and arithmetic which were used for

many centuries during a time when mathematical achievement

in Europe was at a remarkable low.

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