Should students be told some subjects are more important than others?

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at OP:
I think you should work in the business world (namely accounting/finance etc) if you think those jobs are more emotionally fulfilling. Most people in those industries are murderous, dog-eat-dog types who's goal is to climb higher up. Don't confuse a bigger paycheck for emotional fulfillment.

You'll find very few top level employees that haven't lost their souls (I know from personal experience that I've only met a handful that haven't, and a lot of them that have weren't even that high up, so the trade off baffled me).

I would say that the fact that most government funded schools (at least here in Australia) don't have each subject available that is accepted/assessed as part of that states certificate of high school education (HSC in NSW and VCE in Victoria, not sure about the other states) would suggest that students are told that some subjects are more important then others (every state funded school teaches english and math methods, but not all teach subjects like indonesian, even though they are available under HSC and VCE and can go towards your credits/score for that certificate).

On top of that, certain subjects are given bonus marks and others a reduction in marks based on the difficulty of that subject. In that way, a student would be hard pressed to choose arts (which gets marked down after your score is calculated) against math methods (which is marked up) because it's easier to get a crap score in math and it being boosted up to a good score then getting an initially good score and having it valued down.

Personally, I would agree and I do tell people not to do certain subjects/to do certain subjects because of the potential jobs later on. It may sound like I didn't in what I wrote before this paragraph, but that's because I think this discussion is futile because no matter what, schools/government/people giving advice would lean towards placing importance in certain subjects, whether intentionally (i.e when I give someone advice) or unintentionally (not offering all available subjects in schools).