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Philately

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail’. We have to plan early to make it big.
So the parents and the teachers always ask us what we want to be in life. The
options often seem to be very sparse. Most parents want us to be either a doctor
or an engineer or a scientist or maybe an actor. So it means that almost all the
students of our age would fight for the same career options. Isn’t it funny and
ironical about our education system? It reminds me of the famous song-‘All in
all it’s just another brick in the wall’.

Edward Loines Pemberton is known as the father of philately
One may love science, literature or sports. Let him/her pursue it if he/she is
suitable for it. But that may be one of the primary career options. This option
would help the persons to settle in the economic mainstream of the society and
to serve the country in a better and formal way. But apart from these mainstream
jobs, can't we do anything else which is much closer to our hearts? We need to
think out of the box to do something uncommon as an alternative career option.
Such an alternate career option can
ultimately be a primary profession,
or one can take it as a supportive or
additional job. But we must plan for
such an alternate career option.
Most of us have different sorts of
hobbies. If we can take our hobbies
as a career option, then it is sure to
succeed. One may take singing,
drama or photography as an
alternate occupation. Everybody has a different hobby, so there will be diverse
choices. One such option is trading of collectables.
Since childhood, many of us are very much fond of philately, i.e.
collection of postal stamps and numismatics, i.e. a collection of coins and
currencies. Many young people have the hobby of collecting conventional items
like postal stamps, coins, autographs and currencies. Some people also collect
odd items like small stones, seashells, or pebbles from different beaches of the
whole world. Some of them even spend a huge amount of money to have in
their possession rare coins, cute glass bottles, exclusive paperweights, paper-
knives, erasers, bookmarks, old artifacts, ethnic and junk jewellery etc. Unusual
and weird items like dices, corks, keys, spoons, boarding passes and even
toothbrushes are also collected. They might even reuse some less significant
items to create various exclusive decorative memorabilia or decorating
showpieces. Rare and antique items are more vigilantly preserved along with
some details of history.

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