My Career As A Career

“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”(Billie Jean King) Most students from first grade to twelfth grade say that sports are a big part of their life and make them who they were meant to be in a positive way. Some people might argue that students in sports or extracurricular activities have lower grades than the other students, but it's the opposite way around. Sports improve your performance in school because they strengthen your concentration ability and leadership traits.

Throughout my life I have always been involved in sports, whether it's for a team or just with friends they have always been apart of me. Once I entered junior high I began playing competitive baseball, a commitment that taught me how to manage my time. With practices everyday ranging from 2-3 hours I was limited to the time I was able to hangout with friends as I decided to put my schoolwork first. I realized I needed to create a balance between school, sports, and friends so I could further my education as well as do the things I love.

Since a very young age, I have been involved in community service and extracurricular activities. I started playing sports at the age of three, beginning with gymnastics. Soon after, I joined many other sports teams, including, dance, soccer, and softball. In middle school and throughout high school, I ran track and cross country and continued playing soccer. Senior year of high school,

The activities that i'm involved in, inside of school are Marching Band. The Albert Lea High School Marching Band is during the summer and lasts about a week. It’s a blast and I meet new friends, also 8th Graders are allowed to do marching band and us upper kids help them with marching and memorizing the music. I also do regular Band class here at school. I play the Flute and are now learning how to play the Tuba, during the marching band season I do Drumline. I use to play softball and volleyball. Softball wasn’t the greatest, I mean getting hit in the face with softballs isn’t fun, other than that I had a great time and games and the girls on my team were the nicest. I played volleyball for 3 years. I had to skip a year of volleyball to plan my Quinceanera. This year, my sophomore year, I tried out for volleyball. Sadly I didn’t make it. Even though i was bummed out, I learned to cope with it.

If you asked my teachers about extracurriculars, they would say they take students’ time away from homework. If you asked me, I would say they keep students’ motivated in school and spark their interest. Almost anywhere you go, kids involved in sports are referred to as “student athletes.” Being a student should always come first, but athletics holds importance too. For many of us, sports are our whole lives. For me that is definitely true right now. Athletics have played a huge role in helping me develop through my adolescent life, but I am not sure they need to continue to play as large of a role going into my future.

I participate in multiple athletics and activities at Worland High School. Worland High School has a large array of extracurricular activities that they offer. From Key Club, to Football, to Debate, exedra. All these activities offer many opportunities for the students to participate in. There is a considerably large quantity of students at Worland High School who are involved in these extracurricular activities. Extracurricular activities have a lot of benefits. I participate in extracurricular activities for many reasons , the three major ones are, they keep me busy, they are something that I love, and they keep me healthy.

Participating in a sport has been something that has impacted my life for the best. It has helped me to learn to better manage my time, work well with other students, and taking a leadership role. I have been involved in sports for nine years, I had played softball for two years, but I had been a cheerleader for nine continuous years. Being able to participate in sports throughout my school career has helped me prepare for my future in order to be able to juggle school and sports at the same time.

According to the 16 Personality test, my personality type is the defender. I possess the feeling trait and have excellent analytical skills. I have well-developed people skills and strong social relationships. Even though I’m the judging type, I am also receptive to change and new ideas. According to my Career Cruising results, I should become some type of counselor or therapist. Surprisingly, my suggested careers were pretty accurate to what I want to pursue. However, Career Cruising did not hint at any careers in criminal justice or forensic science as it has in previous years. For my Day-on-the-Job, I job shadowed Officer Brian Farlin and Detective Michael Neering to get a sense of working with crime since that has always interested me.

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.

Over the years, I have been involved in many activities from sports to being a teacher for English as a second language. Sports have been the things that have meant the most to me. Competing in both volleyball and softball have not only taught me the sport but also how to be a better person. Playing Sports has made me a very competitive person, which helps in the sports world and in the school world. I am always competing with myself to do better. Always pushing myself to do my absolute best. Another life lesson that playing sports has taught me is that you have to work hard in everything you do, nothing in life comes easy. My parents have always told me to work hard and do everything to the best of my ability and sports has really made me

Running, soccer, basketball, and more. My sister(Payton) does any type of sport that she can get her hands on. She usually plays for her school being on the varsity team for track, soccer, and basketball. Playing sports for her school has made her happy since the first day of sixth grade, and now she is in 11th grade still enjoying playing those sports. Consequently, she has had a lot of work to do, but she gets it done and always gets a stellar grade. Nowadays the school system is debating whether to be like the rest of the countries and stop school sports to focus on academics. They are going to make a decision about whether to fund the programs anymore or stop and focus primarily on the education of students. School sport teams should not be disbanded due to the health benefits they provide, and the confidence of the social aspect a sport team gives to a child.

The extra curricular activities I have been involved in two years are track and field . When I joined the Track and Field in the 10th grade at first, I was really nervous about going in and had a bit of experience in middle school. But in order for me to improve in my events I needed to go to practice. Track and Field has changed me from who I was before. Because when I joined the track & field and it was not easy to get into shaped. The events of track and field were not so easy, it takes all of the hard work that I did to be prepared.

In this research essay, I will be talking about the career that I would like to be in and what I need to do to get into that program: as well as talk about the university that I chose and explain why this would be the best decision to be in that field of research. The career that I chose and want to become is a zoologist and a wildlife biologist. The everyday work-life of a zoologist and a wildlife biologist mostly includes conducting studies, perform complex experiments, and going on trips to secluded areas such as rainforests, arctic tundras, deserts, and other places to collect data and research and make new theories and discoveries of animals. The education needed for this career is just to take a 4 year undergraduate program at a university,

I never was athletically inclined; I don’t care for sports and never wanted to play any. In hindsight I do wish that I had played at least one sport at some point in my life, at least to have the experience. Almost all of my extracurricular activities are academic: book club, newspaper, academic bowl, Model UN and some others.

Students who do sports and extracurricular activities budget their time more wisely than students who don’t and overall tend to do better than kids who don’t. I believe that students who do activities outside of school tend to do better in school than students who don’t. Those students also learn valuable skills like working in groups. Doing activities outside of school makes the students want to work hard to get good grades in school because if you don't have good grades you cant do sports. According to, the US Dept. of Education in 2005, high school athletes are more likely than non-athletes to attend college and get degrees. EY Women Athletes Business Network in 2014 did a survey of 400 female corporate executives and found that 94% of them played a sport and that 61% of those women say that sports have contributed to their career success.