Choosing a career is difficult for everyone. There are personality tests and quizzes to help us choose, but nothing compares to the eureka moment that hits you when you least expect it. My eureka moment happened over Christmas of my junior year. I anxiously researched the best universities, compiled admission statistics, and started a list of which colleges I would visit. With little idea of what I wanted to do, I weighed my options. Career Education and Career Literacy did an adequate job supplying me with a variety career paths that matched my interests, but I was unsure which one was for me.
Nevertheless, Christmas break gave me the opportunity to talk to family and family friends and to scour the internet for more in-depth information about my potential career opportunities. Family travels from all over the country to spend Christmas Eve at my grandparents’ home. My family members work in several different career fields. They are police officers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers, all with hectic schedules, therefore, it is challenging to bring the entire family together. This holiday is the exception because everyone is eager to catch up on each other’s busy lives and eat my grandfather’s homemade stuffing. With our growing family, it is always incredible to hear their stories of work and travel over delicious food. Making their way through the long buffet line, each person took their oversized portion of delicious food and sat in their unofficial
Life is full of decisions. You have the choice to decide what you want to do for a career. Some may have jobs they wish they could change or made the decision before to have done something differently. The career you choose should be something you love, along with aspects that fit your values the best. Interest, skills, financially that you know you can excel in. A plan for life is important, so it’s best to know or have an idea on what you want to proceed in.
This article mainly targets current college students who are still undecided or students who are already in a major, and it tries to convince those students to make sure they chose the “correct” career path. Not only does it target college, students but also current high school students. This article is more of a guide to help those students who
The right career path begins with the right college, and the right college should take me to the right path. I always wondered what I was going to do with my life ever since I was 12 years old. When I turned 14 I wanted to become a video game designer but then I looked into it and learned how much I hated it, how much it wasn’t like playing video games. So as I always told myself “if it isn’t right for you then go with the next thing in life you enjoy.”. So that’s when I started my journey of life mentally, looking to the right career for success. It is important to understand the education or training requirements, skills or talents needed, salary and benefits offered, and the duties for a particular career when making the decision.
The one question almost every young child or teenager asks themselves is, “What do I want to be when I’m older?” For many, the question remains unanswered, but for the ones who have researched careers, they may already know. Everyone has different interests; therefore, everybody will most likely want to do a different career. In life, people don’t normally end up working with their friends from high school or college; they branch off into their careers and may never really talk to them again. People do not choose careers from what their friends want to do. People choose from their interests in life, so researching careers is important when finding a job. The world of careers is massive: doctors, teachers, chiropractors, bankers,
In our generation today High School students are at the age of having to know what they want to do for a career and what are the components the students need to have to achieve this. When choosing a career or career choices this is a main focal point in a young person’s life. There are many practical approaches and beliefs when approaching career selecting and it can be an intensive process. A first step in a career planning process would be assessing an individual/client with evaluating their willing/eagerness in the process (Gerstan, 2013). When looking into a specific career, planning with a high school
After high school students are forced to make the hardest decisions of their lives that will affect them in the future drastically. Students will have to consider what they want to work in for the future. While some students know right away what they want to do, others take longer to pick their careers. When it comes to choosing the career, it is important to consider the factors that are more important for you. Examples like do you want to help the society, care about money, and even the conditions you work in, are factors that people consider are important for them. Someone who values caring for others health, financial stability, and length of studying should explore careers in Personal Training and
In college you will learn about the career one is pursuing, but also one will learn if the career is the right choice from them. It is not uncommon to change one’s career choice, “an estimated 75 percent of students change their major at least once before graduation” (Gordon, 1995).
Making a decision on the right career for myself was difficult. What am I passionate about? How can I do what I love while making a great amount of money? Questions like that constantly traveled through my mind. I never spent much time focusing on what I would do after college.
Figuring out what career to embark on or which career to switch to can be overwhelming, confusing and frustrating! So how do you make the best choice for a career of a lifetime? That is a question we all ask ourselves, but how can we answer that question? Thanks to technology, we all can have access to a self-assessment test which can help anyone that is struggling in what career to embark in. Take a short assessment test and determine what motivates yourself. Theses self assessment test will need information about your personality and what career suits the best. What I suggest is to spend some time fleshing out a picture of your ideal life, which doesn’t have to include a specific description of an ideal job, or an ideal business just yet,
Have you ever thought about what a little research could do to help explore your approaching career? The things that will be discussed in this paper will give a clear example of what research could help you. The website that my classmates and I used to explain our Career Research papers, was cfnc.org. I hope, that through research, to discover more about a certain career that may suit my interests and things that I am skilled in.
Entering junior year, roughly half of students know which career they’ll pursue, while another half wander aimlessly. I was among the latter--lost--trying to choose from many intriguing options.
Deciding on a career has been a challenge. My first career interest was to be a physical therapist. As a child I would look at my mother-nursing textbook was intrigued by the muscular and skeletal systems The most intriguing part was how muscles, tendons, and ligaments all work to attach themselves to our skeletal system to create motion. My second career interesteas in mass communications. After only one semester I realized that I had no real desire to pursue a career in this field. The around the same time I was offered a promotion as the evening manager at my part-time job. I quickly change my major to business administration In
Throughout every person’s life, they have many aspirations to become a vast array of different careers, beginning as a young child. As a child, career choices are typically unspecific and seem unrealistic to an adult, but some children grow up and become exactly what they want to be. For example, when I was a child and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them that I wanted to be a teacher. During high school, I lost that dream and turned to child psychology and then to pediatric nursing. Since I have started college, it became imperative for me to decide what I truly wished to be. My mind went back to what I always wanted as a child and I knew in my heart that this was the right decision; an elementary
One of the crucial moments in my life was the decision I had to take; as to what I was going to do next in life. Having completed my Advanced Level in 2013, I realized that it was not the end of my career as a student. I needed strong academic foundation along with other soft skills to meet the challenges and survive in this commercial world as a successful individual. In view of these thoughts, I was unable to make a firm decision as to what my career direction would be. After a month or so of various discussions with my parents, friends and other learned people I was able to reason out the best choice for me.
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.