In most school systems there is no direct pathway to a business career. we get people who seem to drift to business because they have no aptitude or inclination for the sort of career path(academic or professional) that is advocated in school. highly talented youngsters get "trapped" by their early success at school, and this determines their career paths in the academic world and in the professions.
HOW THEY CHOOSE WHAT TO DO:
1 . chance meeting: Jarvis Astaire , a very successful property developer while playing tennis met a fellow whom he knew vaguely from his Youth Club Days. this fellow was an estate agent who talked about a particular piece of land available in edgware. Jarvis was running a menswear shop in london at that time. he and his brother in law( a clothing manufacturer) thought what they could do with that piece of land.the office building they built on it turned out to be so successful a venture that they decided that the property development business had more opportunity than either of the businesses they had.
2 .bureaucratic error: sometimes circumstances forced by a mistake(one,s own or others) can open up a path that would otherwise had not been chosen. Hans Eysenck , psychologist :"When i came over to England at the age of eighteen or so, i was required to do the matric at the university of london. So i did the subjects that were easiest for me, which were latin and mathematics and so on.....German and English. But when i came to registrar , they said"you,ve taken the wrong subjects ; which was typical of the University of London , a terribly bureaucratic institution.
"so i said:What can i do?"
"they said: "Come back next year and take the right subjects."
"And i said:"i haven,t got any money so i can,t do that. isn,t there any science i can study with what i,ve got?"
"And they said:"Oh yes..... there,s always psychology".
And i said:"What the hell is psychology? Never heard of it."
,So i went into Psychology."
Eysenck,s natural tendency was to be exact and to measure. this enabled him to stand out in a field that is usually more interested in in theory and speculation and where things may be impossible to measure.
