College Admissions Essay: My Path To A Successful Career

Throughout my childhood and up into my middle school years, I had a solid plan for my life: to be an air traffic controller. It seemed like the perfect career for me. I am a highly organized and alert person. I like structure and to have control over the situations that surround me. And, most importantly, I find great satisfaction in helping others to meet their objectives and safely land at their desired destination. Air traffic control was the only career for me. I had my whole life planned out, including the exact airport where I would work. No one or nothing could sway me from the goals that I had set for myself.

I will never look at a cubicle office job, a burger-flipping joint, or a salesman’s job and say, “that’s where I want to be in a few years.”. In my lifetime, I have never had an interest in an office job, quite unironically, I’ve always looked to the arts as a potential job source. I love colors, lines, shapes; I find beauty in it all. Art is all around us in this world, and I plan to contribute by becoming an animator. That is my dream job because it’s the ultimate way for me to utilize my creativity. I’ve jumped from multiple dream jobs to the next, at first I considered being a professional “fine arts” artist, working with pencil and any other medium to create classical pieces of work. As times progressed, I’ve slowly realized that the

Growing up, I was always the one expected in my family to succeed. My mom would always talk about the future; I would go to college, a privilege she couldn't obtain herself, and become a doctor to make enough money for our family. This was the career path I've always been interested in since I was a child. This helped shaped my goals in life and inspired me to work hard so I could make that ongoing dream a reality.

Every child wants to “be something” when they grow up. A doctor, a lawyer, a veterinarian, the list continues indefinitely. Most people fixate on one particular career; even if it changes, at any given moment they have one goal. For some reason, that never happened for me. My friends and family would ask “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and I would immediately rattle off a laundry list of different things. “An inventor, a scientist, a dancer, a chef, a translator! I’m going to learn every language in existence!” was my excited reply. Apparently I was quite the ambitious child.

When I think of my career goals, I ask myself what I want to accomplish in life. I know that I love helping patients and families, and I want to continue to do that. I always am changing my mind on what I want to do after my BSN. I don’t know when or if I will get my masters or continue to work at the bedside for a while. I love what I do and what I do for other people and families. Working in the critical care unit feels like home. I get to do what I love.

I chose this career so that I can make everyone in the world happy. I love to cook, clean, and even give orders occasionally. I want to have my own restaurant and have many of them all around the world. I want to be able to visit these restaurants at least three times a year each. I want to make my uncle happy by succeeding in the business. I want to be like him one day, happy with what I do and very successful. I want to bake a bunch of sweets for children all around for their birthdays and even just every day parties. I want my kids to come from school every day and get a treat for being so good. Mississippi has a very low amount of employees compared to other states such as California. I may go to Texas though because it is bigger than Mississippi and my uncle also lives there.

being born and raised until my teenage years in New York kick off my the development of myself today. New York is one of the biggest cities in the world filled with different cultures and people very diverse. this is the being of my shaping of myself being around so many people with different lifestyles which help me to learn that even in this big city there is the world out there that one day I hope to see. New York also shapes me to be a hard worker the pride that is taken in being successful in life by achieving a professional career and making a living so being around motivated and career driven peers and family. at the age of 12 my family packed up and move from New York to Georgia to live down south and see what southern hospitality was all about. living in Georgia was totally different things were a lot slower and family was extra important, a closer bond than the average family in new York also sports, sports were

I was raised in a military household; both of my parents were in the U.S. Navy. Growing up I was taught proper discipline, a sense of order, and a firm belief in right and wrong. These skills allowed me to be able to conduct my life with a sense of purpose and gave me the confidence to accomplish anything I set my mind to. I myself spent 5 years in the U.S. Navy and I am definitely a better person for it. The military taught me many essential life skills that I feel give me a unique perspective and advantage when it comes to accomplishing my goals. The military taught me self-discipline and instilled high standards for everything I do. I learned teamwork and leadership skills, stress management, and global awareness. The military teaches you

stop what she was doing to greet me back with the biggest smile and the

My greatest talent is I am very self motivated, and I never encourage myself to failing I always help myself to be better than ever. I am very skilled at helping myself do better on things I'm not good at, because I know things look difficult but are easy once it has been practiced. My greatest talent is designing on paper, I Had a really hard time drawing and designing a dress. I started with very basic ideas, then kept motivating myself, and knowing that everything takes time to reach it. Being around with students who had come with the same background as mine has taught me a lot of great skills such as being supportive. I had the ability to support students to be strong even when being in a country they do not know the language. Motivating

As a senior, I pride myself in knowing that I will be the first in my family to graduate high school and have the opportunity of pursuing my dreams. As I look into the future, it is easy to see why many would think that my dream career is unobtainable. When I tell others what I want to do, I always get the same reaction of shock. Countless times throughout my life I've been told that I cannot do it; I've been told that there is no way that a kid born with illegal parents who have no real education can ever achieve what I want to do. I dream of becoming a surgeon and helping save the lives of others. I want to prove once and for all that someone like me, even from the circumstances that surround me, can make something great with their lives

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.

Pursuing a career can take much more thought and work than can be expected; however the career that I would choose is brick lying. Although I had to give some thought and ponder on which way I want to go. I’ve come to the conclusion that brick laying the career for me , growing up and watching my uncle work as a Brick layer left me feeling like this wasn’t the job for me. The hard hat job came with long hard labor and many dirty clothes. Needless, to say I didn’t want anything to do with it. As I got older and seen the finish work, I became fascinated by the finished product and I knew right away that this was the career for me.

Every kids goal is graduate from high school, go off to college, and live the luxurious life they have always dreamed of. They don't realize all of the hard work they need to put forth, and obstacles to overcome in order to fulfill those dreams. Over the last 4 years, I have set myself certain goals so I can be the first of my family to earn a high school diploma, and move on to pursue a higher education. Some of those goals included; maintaining above a 4.0 cumulative GPA, ranking #1 in my class, and becoming extremely over involved in extracurricular activities. I have accomplished all of these, setting myself well above where I expected to be. Now that I am a senior, ready to start making my own dreams reality, I have made a whole new set of goal to work for. But with these goals comes patience, and effort. Since freshman year, I have worked for my grades, and have had the ambition, and strive, to become who I am today. This wasn’t easy, nor was it a quick process. So for this, the most important lesson i’ve learned up to this point in my life is that success is not handed to you, and that it takes hard work, as well as patience, to really become all that you would like to be.

Everyone, if you’re lucky enough, has a moment in their lives where a single incident occurs that forces a complete and total reevaluation of any future path. For some it’s the birth of a child or for others, finding out that there is really such a thing as life after death. However, there are far too many that discover life altering experiences are not so pleasurable. For those like myself, there is a darkness that falls upon us within seconds. Evil rears its ugly head and, for what feels like a million years, focuses only on destruction.