Career Path Quotes

Social Work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. I chose to seek a degree in this field because I find this to be a very rewarding career choice. To obtain a degree in a career that essentially makes a difference in people’s lives is extremely important to me. I have worked as a medical assistant for over 10 years, and although I love my job I would like to work closer with the people that I serve. I realize from working with people with intellectual disabilities that my passion lies with helping and assisting individuals. It takes a special person to work in social services because this is a field where advocating and assisting are a forte. I would like to obtain my Bachelors of Art in Social Work and work with children. After, I have worked in the field for at least a year I would like to continue postgraduate studies in lure of earning my master’s in social work. My ultimate goal is to obtain both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work and specialize in case management assisting both children and veterans.

Generally, as children grow older, they tend to imagine which career path they will follow as adults.  However, what much of today's youth fails to grasp is the importance of overcoming all seemingly unsurmountable obstacles in their education in order to reach their career aspirations.  Overall, my high school career consisted of spending countless nights and endless hours working diligently toward success in highly advanced classes in which I could have never imagined myself excelling.  Following many years considering which path I would take next in my education, my decision to become a diagnostic medical sonographer seemed effortless and suiting for my personality.  In retrospect, I now realize that, if it hadn't been for the guidance of many wonderful, influential people I have known and prospered from as a result, I would not be the driven, analytic person I am today.  All in all, I have come to realize the most influential factor in my decision to become a sonographer, as well as in my strive toward personal success, can only be owed to none other than the guidance of my wise mother.

Everyone needs to develop skills that will help them in the future. Working to better ourselves, we help better our chances of more enlightening careers. I believe I have developed a certain few of these skills. While working at Ciddici's a pizza place here in downtown I proved such skills.

“You are such a storyteller” my mom would tell me as a little girl, but little did we know storytelling would become my career path.

Among the nine areas that describe my life, I want and will make improvements in my career. I feel like I found the perfect career path; the things I am able to do and the things I will learn becoming a health promoter. Nonetheless, I am still in the process of becoming what I want, there is a long process ahead of me, which I am exited to take in order to achieve my dreams and get the education that I am still missing. In the mean time, I am getting prepared to become the best I can be as a professional.

I always wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But the truth is, like any professional sport not everyone makes it, and I don't think I'm going to make it. So therefore I have to focus on my future by getting a good job. That doesn't mean I'm giving up on my dream though. In order to do that I need to go to school further. I don't want to work long hours for little pay when I have the opportunity to go to school and get a better career. That is why I have to continue my education and I am willing to do what it takes.

“Everybody has a Helene Tucker” By dick Gregory in Shame. When I was younger, all I ever wanted to be was a chef; however, as I got older, my career ideas changed drastically. I went through a few other stages before finally discovering that what I truly aspired to be was anything in the field of Medicine. My career choice as a Registered Nurse symbolizes all that I am: my abstraction, my motivation, and my passion.

As a child of Eritrean immigrant parents, I felt I was forced to choose from the four career choices that most non-American parents want their kids to fulfill; doctor, nurse, lawyer, or international businessman. At the age of five I was playing with stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs, not dolls and building blocks. When I started the third grade at Campbell Hill Elementary, I fell in love with volunteering in the special needs classes during my recess. Instead of playing with my friends outside, I would run to room 210 and help the teachers prepare games for the kids that would benefit their learning style, or slowly walk hand in hand with Rebecca, back and forth from hall to hall to help her become familiar with the school since she was blind. I chose to do this three times a week until I left for middle school. With the teachers encouraging me to continue with what I was helping them do, the decision was easy for me, I did not want to be a doctor, nurse, lawyer or international businessman, I wanted to be the best pediatric

In my senior year of high school, I had a difficult time choosing a career path. There were numerous options I had, but found myself putting limitations on my ideas. Throughout this time, many of my peers had known exactly what they wanted to do and where they were going to attend college.

In life, there are many decisions that people come across, from what to eat for lunch everyday, to where to start a career at. Many young people in high school do not often think about what they want to do after high school until they are a senior. For me, I knew what I have wanted to do ever since I was in middle school. High school has been an amazing experience for me, and has helped me make strong decisions, but I have been ready to move on since the first day of senior year. I am very family-oriented and do not like to be far away from home for a long period of time, so a close college is best. I have been looking into Bowling Green State University and Ohio Northern University for the past year. While BGSU

From dawn to evening, the hours have always seemed seamless to me throughout the scorching day in the tomato fields. Sometimes, I look directly at the baked dirt and wonder about my father and his achievements. To this day, it is unimaginable for me about him working on the U.S. soil since he was sixteen years old. Against all odds my father had been inexperienced yet he worked daily to provide himself and his family back in his home country. For thirty years, his work and dedication were wrapped around the agricultural industries. First off, he started as a seasonal farm worker until later on, he had the courage to become a labor contractor for various companies after receiving his citizenship and contractor license. What I admire him the most is that he never stopped trying and proceeded to sign many contracts such as Pacific Tomato Growers, Gargiulo Inc., Wish Farms, Southern Forestry Consultants, Mike & Dianne Lane, LLC, and others in order provide for his four children and wife and also to complete his long-term project.

This program has taught me many things about myself. I have been able to analyze my personality, my tenacity, and my ability to be patient and how I am able to handle conflict not only in my classroom but also in my life. The virtues that I possess can influence my teaching style and how my students perceive my class and are able to function and achieve. It is important for my students to be successful and this is something that I must work hard to instill in my students.

All through high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do after I graduated. When people would ask me what I wanted to study or what career I wanted, I would shrug my shoulders and say, “I don’t know”. Entering my first year of college, not much had changed, I still didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do and had yet to choose a major let alone a career. What I was certain about the career I wanted was that I would be happy to go in for work every day and that I wanted to be able to help people in whatever I chose to do. After careful consideration and exploring the options available to me, I have come to the decision that I want to have a career in physical therapy.

Finding a specific career path can not only be difficult, but it can also induce bouts of anxiety, anger, and sadness over a crucial part of an individual’s life. Settling on a career can be unnerving when thinking about the fact that this is the career that you spend thousands of dollars on in college, that this is the career you will work in until you retire. With this course, I’ve found that it has been easier to narrow down a goal towards finding a career. Through career assessments, different assignments and discussions, I have realized what my barriers and strengths are. Overcoming these and improving these skills or applying them to an actual career assisted me in narrowing my goal as well. I am now able to clearly see the advantages and disadvantages of my career goal and to think clearer about the next steps that I will take after this course.

For the career road map assignment, I decided to interview a friend, athlete, coach, and counselor at lafayette high school. The interview consisted of what his career path has been leading up to where he currently is in his career. Daniel majored in counselling at UTC in downtown Chattanooga. While he was in grad school for counselling MA, Daniel worked at a running shoe store named FastBreak Athletics in Chattanooga. He eventually ended up being a sales rep for the company and travelled to different events to market/sell different types of running gear at expos or to different storefronts.