Eva Marcushamer wrote Mexico's first vocational guidance book in 1997, facing resistance because career counseling barely existed there. She argues that adolescence is misunderstood and that knowing yourself matters more than picking the perfect career.
It doesn't really matter what you choose. I mean, there are so many careers that fulfill the same goal. When you do what you like, you make money, because work doesn't feel like work.
As a teenager, you have two important things to do. What are you going to study? Either your career or your sexual identity. In 1997, you published the first book in Mexico about vocational guidance.
In 1999. 1999 I finished writing it in 1997, and for two years I had to present it because no one believed in the project. They didn't know what vocational guidance was.
Why did you feel the urgency to talk about this topic and what did you discover in that process?
The urgency was because they didn't know about it.
There was no space in any school.
That offered a vocational guidance course.
How did I find out about this?
Because they invited me to work at a school giving guidance. Not vocational guidance, but guidance.
And so I said, guidance about what? What am I going to talk about? I was talking to the school principal.
And the psychologist, and I realized that there was no such thing as career guidance.
So I went to look for books.
On career guidance, but there were none on career guidance.
It was incredible. I thought it was unbelievable that this.
Pioneering school wanted to offer a career guidance course, but they didn't know how, where or what the kids needed.
It just so happened that a teacher.
From Iburo was coming from Paris after studying career guidance, and out of curiosity, she invited me to work as an assistant.
This was my second teacher and I.
Started teaching the career guidance class for high school students with her.
And so they came to me from this other school.
And I realized that the book wasn't available.
I started writing it. What did you learn about teenagers during.
That time, and especially in the decades that have followed? Right.
Because it continues to be one.
Of the least understood stages of life.
And although we've all gone through it, I think that when teenagers are here.
It'S not us who understand them the least.
Let's start.
Because my adolescence was very turbulent, my.
Own adolescence, I was different. I started reading when I was 10.
Years old, thanks to a friend's father's library.
I would take books with me, ask him for them.
Secretly, I would read, read and read.
And I felt quite misunderstood. When I started studying psychology, I started.
Reading a bit more good books about adolescent emotions.
I started to understand a lot of.
I connected with my adolescents so that I could transmit to them the need.
To know yourself, because I believe that.
Is our great conflict in.
