My Career : My Professional Career

Upon graduating high school, I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life. I didn’t want to be like a lot of my friends and use college as an excuse to party all night and be lazy all day. So I decided to apply for a full time position as a diesel mechanic at Utility Fleet Sales so that I could at least begin earning income. Soon after starting this position, I realized that I wanted more. I decided to attend night classes at Blinn community college while continuing to work full time. I had no idea on what degree I wanted to work towards, but for the first time in my life I began to enjoy school. As I finished my first year at Blinn and second year working as a technician, I was promoted to an inside parts associates. This position introduced me to inventory management, building relationships with customers, cost management and basic accounting. I really enjoyed applying the mechanical knowledge I learned from working as a technician, towards my new position of

I really enjoy business as a whole and can see myself as an administrative assistant. So far I’ve really enjoyed studying all of the aspects of business and the aspects of an administrative assistants job. Thus far I’ve really enjoyed my decision to receive my associates

In all honesty, I don’t know what I want from the world. So many ideas go through my brain, that I get a little bit frustrated with myself. I want to find the path that is true to who I am. I believe that the Career Exploration program help me find this path. At this point in my mind, I am stuck at a fork in the road between my dream jobs and I’m ready to finally pick.

For the longest time I have wanted to pursue my passion of helping people. That is how I selected my major to be in Microbiology, so I can move on and eventually get into medical school. After a year and a half have passed, I decided that I wanted to continue pursuing my passion in business as well. While attending UNR my first year, I was greatly frustrated because while being majored in Biology, I also took business courses for my Entrepreneurship minor. As days pass by, I am currently thinking about swapping my major into the business field. After completing the survey answering everything honestly, the results showed all business related positions. Now, I did have the opportunity to manipulate the factors that gave these results, but I honestly believe that these positions fit what I should be aiming for. After the completion of the survey, the four positions I decided to select from the list included “Marketing Manager, Public Relations Manager, Events Manager, Medical Sales Representative.” Although my major may not follow along these results, they do follow along who I believe I am as a person.

A normal day includes: laying out all surgical tools to ensure they are in good working order, sharper knives and scalpels when necessary, transfer the body to examination table or refrigeration unit, assist the pathologist during the examination, and identify information on the patient

While I was in college, I felt like working with children was something that I wanted to do. There are many different career paths one could take if they want to work with children. I love sports, so I decided that recreation would be a path that would allow me to work with children doing something that I love to do. For the past twelve years, I have had the opportunity to work with the residents of Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch. I work in the Youth Activities Department and my job is to provide sports programming for our pre-adolescent population. However, I am in more of an administrative role where I oversee the program the children participate in. The time I actually have working with them one-on-one or in small groups is limited. I have

I began using computers when I attended South Puget Sounds Community College (SPCC) in 1980. I completed and passed Data Entry classes. Utilizing the skills I learned, I went to work for the State of Washington Labor and Industries and Department of Revenue as a Data Entry Operator, from 1981-1983.

1. My current goal is finding a position with a company who allows me to start building a career while allowing me to grow and develop new skills. Over the course of the next five years, I plan to have continued my education and achieved a higher level of education within healthcare administration. After receiving such achievement, I would essentially use it to work toward a higher position with more responsibilities of management.

The start of this project began in early October, and for the most part it was a relatively simple course of action to be prepared, coordinated, and reported for the majority of the school year. Its themes and priorities were simple in theory, however—volunteer, research post-graduation opportunities and ideas, and for the most part settle with a plan on how to address adulthood and future prospective careers and education. My choices led me to volunteer for the necessary twenty hours and my own curiosity has allowed for me to navigate the internet and other sources for ideas on careers, education, and even the possible jobs that I could acquire when moving from Pennsylvania after my graduation. There were many things to learn, but many things

I often sit and recall where my career began; of course, this brings me back to my time in basic training. As well as my time as a private will forever be with me, especially that first 12 months haunting me daily until I paid off my Montgomery GI Bill. This time in the Army had little impact in regards to who I am today. It did help separate me from what I was before and paved the way ahead but it did very little to prepare me for being a leader. I had responsibilities but they were all at my own pace and left one point of failure. For the most part, I did not know what I was going to be doing the next day so I remained flexible and spent a lot of time just waiting for instructions; everything was paint by the numbers so to speak.

In my Career Explorations and Opportunities (CEO) class, we have just completed a financial unit. Before this unit I didn’t understand many banking terms, I wasn't aware of the difference between savings and chequing and did not know what was available to me through banks being a student. Throughout the unit I was constantly learning new things and realized how important saving is! Savings can really be a great safety net in case of emergency. Throughout this unit I have learned a lot about savings, savings skills, savings mindset, investing, types of investments and my risk appetite. In the following paragraphs I would like to tell you on what I learned throughout this unit.

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.

For my career exploration, I would like to start on the Meyers-Briggs personality test I got the letters ISFP which is introvert, sensing, feeling, perceiving. For the Holland personality test, my top three is social, entrepreneurial, and conventional. The information I got from the Meyers-Brigg and Holland personality test can help me find to improve and what not to do and how I can become a better person in my job and my family.

I have a pretty good idea what I want to do career wise in the future. I do not want to limit myself to just one particular career because I have many career interests. I believe I would be able to work at some of them in different stages on my life. As some of my options build off each other meaning, for some I need about 10 years experience in the field and other I just need maybe a few months and a degree. So I would be able to work at the lower level, such as: Business Consultant, Human Resource, Budget Analyst, ones as I begin in the work force to get my experience up and then one I gain the experience I would be able to work at the high jobs such as: Chief Financial Officer, Certified Public Accountant, and CEO.

During my lifetime, I have had my fair share of hardships with money. Being from a family who had 4 kids and was constantly taking care of sick elders in the family, we were very strapped and conservative with money. My family didn’t like to spend money on anything and we didn’t buy anything that wasn’t necessary. That is why I am conservative and cheap with money, always looking for cheaper options and better deals. Because of having a childhood where I didn’t spend money, this made me rather good with money, and interested me enough to decide that this would be my future profession.