Dear Editor,
This is Li Ming, a Year 3 student from a high school. We soon will sit the College Entrance Examinations. Taking this opportunity, I conducted a survey about the future careers the students on the same grade may want to have.
100 students, where both males and females contributed a half, were interviewed. The results are listed in the following table.
Career Males (%) Females (%)
Businessmen 25 15
Teacher 5 35
Doctor 15 15
Scientist 30 15
Lawyer 5 5
Unknown/ 5 5
Not yet decided
From the above figures, it is clear that most of the interviewees have already made up their minds on the future careers. Although quite a large portion of boys want to be businessmen (25%), more want to be scientists (30%) which means continuing studies. Teacher seems to be an ideal career for the girls. 35% of them choose teacher as their career. On the contrary, only 5% boys want to be a teacher.
There are both 20% of boys and girls choosing professional fields. However, doctor is more favourable than layer among the students. Both 15% of boys and girls choose doctor while only the remaining 5% choose lawyer.
It is very exciting that 90% of the interviewees have made decisions on the future careers. However, there are still 5% of boys and 5% of girls have not made up their minds yet. It is quite worrying if they still cannot decide their path in a short time.
I hope the survey may interest you and would be published in your school English newspaper / magazine. Should you have any enquires, please feel free to contact me at
[email protected] or on phone at 13456789012. Thank you very much for your kind attentions.
Best regards,
Li Ming