This research explores the important meaning of vocation or job for young people, especially for
the high school students. Furthermore, this research explores why the choosing a proper job is
significant for young people, and how it effects young people's future vocation. and then finally, this
research reveals how social participation activities influence young people's vocational consciousness.
This research explores how young people are aware of having job by looking at their decision of
future job. And it investigates the impacts of gender, class, academic attainment, family background,
future career plan, expecially, how social participation help young people's decision for their future
job.
As a result, boy students and vocational high school students showed lack of decision making for
their future job, and also the low fliers showed their lack of interest in making decision in their
jobs. Second, the group of people who intends to get a higher education, showed higher decision
making in their career than someone who has not got decision whether getting a higher education or
starting work. finally, volunteering and vocational experience activities in school influenced young
people's decision making in a very positive way, however, part-time job experience did not.