Becoming A Graduate Degree At The Ohio State University

When I was deciding what I wanted to choose for my major, I thought about things that I love doing. One thing in life that I have passion for is sports, whether it be playing sports or helping others develop their skills for their sport. My long term goal for a career, I want to be an Athletic Director for a college. In order to become an Athletic Director there are certain step that someone needs to do in college to try and have the best chance at getting their dream job. Athletic Director is not a career that a person just graduated from college and gets hired by a school, they must work their way up from an entry level job and slowly moves their way up.

“What do you want to do with your life?”. In my senior year, I recall being asked that precise question by each person that I encountered: my family, teachers, strangers, and even myself. I would answer with a vague mention of my hope to attend college. However, inside I was clueless of exactly what I aspired to achieve in my professional life, and I was terrified at that fact.

“Follow your passion; it will lead you to your purpose,” Oprah Winfrey. My passion leading me to a degree in healthcare management has been the love I have for my son. Becoming a single mother, shortly before my son turned two-years-old, was life altering. Moving back in with my family, realizing I had no income, and no longer the team effort from his father, was an indescribable sense of failure as a parent.

When I first attended Lindenwood University and I had no idea on where I wanted to go with my life. All I knew is that I would not be stuck behind a desk for eight hours a day and that I wanted to work with people. For a while I thought I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to be an influencing part in someone’s life, but it didn’t take me long to realize that teaching was not what I was being called to do. I had a very strong passion to help people, so I started working towards a degree in Exercise Science with the idea that I could do something with the rising obesity issues, but it still didn’t feel right. I started meeting with my advisor, Heather Pennington, who helped me start looking around for different options. She strongly encouraged me to try out different facilities, including several Occupational Therapy environments. I didn’t have a particular “aha” moment where I decided that Occupational Therapy was right for me, but the various experiences showed me what my potential future career path could be.

In my experience, I have found that life has a way of putting one exactly where he or she needs to be. I started my journey going back to school to help families get resources in order for their children to have all their needs met so that they can feel and become successful. I thought by getting my degree in Human Services that I would work with youth and families, however, after taking many addictions courses and with the advice of Dr. Dyer to challenge myself by trying something different for my capstone, I decided to go to Oceans Addiction and Recovery services (OARS).

Being an older, non-traditional college student with 36 years of life experience behind me I thought I had my life figured out. Academically, I would take the degrees that I already have, coupled with the joint Bachelor’s degree I am about to receive from St. Mary’s University, go to law school earn my J.D. Become a practicing attorney and watch the life I have always wanted start to unfold. When given this assignment however, I began to seriously question myself about my passions in life and an immense dissonance overwhelmed me. Nearing 40 years old, I have felt for some time, that I should have in order what I want to do with my degrees and my life for that matter. If I was honest with myself, I do not and therefore, began to do a lot

Everyone has an idea of what they would like to be when they grow up. Some say they would like to be a Doctor or a Nurse or a Mechanic, there are many types of careers anyone can choose from. I chose to pursue a Language Arts Middle School teaching career. Many people say that a teaching career does not make a lot of money, but money is not the main thing in choosing a career, picking what you like and being what you like is the main goal. I chose to be a teacher because when I was in Middle School I had a Language Arts teacher named Mr. Tomov, I never really liked him as a teacher due to the fact that he never made class interesting. The school year went along and one day he called me to the side and asked me what my purpose was. I asked him

As I began studying here at Seattle University, I was aware of my career goals, yet I did not know the academic path that would lead me to them. My career goals were not focused towards a specific discipline, as all I intended to pursue was a career that would contribute to the improvement of my native Hawaiian community. As the school year progressed, I joined student organizations such as hall council and gained leadership positions. In hall council, we were responsible for addressing the needs and desires of our fellow student residents in order to unify our dorm hall community. This experience allowed me to realize that I enjoy fulfilling the needs of others and contributing to the community. Being a part of hall council also reminded me

Throughout my life I have struggled with making a decision on what career I want to take on. Over the years, my career goal has changed from being a teacher to being a game warden and everything in between. I normally struggle making life changing decisions; therefore, when I was recently asked what I aspired to be, I had no answer. I have taken many aptitude tests and most of them have helped me in making this life changing decision.

The two career paths I chose were Athletic Training and Athletic Directing. The reason Athletic Training was my main career path, is because Athletic Training has always been something that I've had interest in. Coming into high school I started focusing more on my body physically instead of staying consistent. People started to take recognition in what I looked like and it gave me the determination to further my skills and help others. My interest in Athletic Directing came early when I started playing football. Being a mentor to other players in high school helped me on making the decision why I wanted to be a coach. Falling in love with the game of football, coaching has become a huge dream of mine. I'll have the ability to interact with

In life we are asked the same question over and over again until we can decide. In elementary school we are asked what we want to be when we grow up and most of us answered things like princess, astronaut, artist, rock star, and actor. Then when we got into middle school we started actually thinking and most of us wanted to be doctors, veterinarians, or something along those lines, but we realized that that takes a lot of work. Once high school came along things were real, life was becoming something that we had to do and it wasn’t just an option. Many people decided what they wanted to be early on in their high school career, they didn’t have any idea whatsoever, or they were like me and had many different options just floating around up

It has taken me longer than the average college student to find my passion. Being a junior who took pre-health classes for the past two and a half years at Clarkson, I found the task of switching career paths quite daunting. When I was in high school, I felt a lot of pressure to pursue a career in the medical field. While I did have a genuine interest in the biology of the human body, I did not know a lot about what a medical professional actually does for a living. Along the way, I had increasing doubts and became unhappy with my career choice. But then I realized that my time is not yet over at Clarkson, and I have time to turn this challenge into something positive.

When I was at stage 5 point of my life, I was very confused as to what was great for me and what wasn’t. I use to change my career major every year. But my life experiences help me determine who I was and what my purpose is. Everybody has a gift or talent in life. Figuring out how to use it wisely is the key. For me I like to help people as a result, I have a soft heart for people I would help my friends get jobs and I gave them money if they needed it. Then I started hanging around their environment. This lead me to getting in to stuff that I had no business doing. So that taught me to help people but don’t put yourself in a position to fail so I decided to become a teacher and football coach, so I can teach people the good about life and how to stay focus, also how to avoid bad situations and which in my opinion are growing up faster every day and experiencing stuff at younger ages. So a mentor in a kid’s life can be very

I managed staff and freelancers while developing and delivered projects and marketing programs using SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely) goals" (Dems, 2008). Overall I was good at my job and extremely satisfied with my vocation. When I look at why I changed jobs it was due to one of the leadership strengths not being met anymore. My job is more than a pay check. A career vocation needs to be meaningful, allow me to learning and create with a social element. Through the vocation of education I can meet these needs by make a difference and giving meaning back into my career for the second half of my life.

Kids see celebrities in the news every day and mimic what they do, thinking that they should be like them. But that is wrong. Most celebrities don’t know what they are doing in their life because they have a hard time telling reality from fantasy.