My College Admissions Essay: My Career Path

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

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.

My life has been an ongoing stuggle, but my hard work, determination, and enthusiasm for my education have enabled me to pursure my dreams. My academic plans are to major in pre-occupational therapy. After graduating and completing the prerequisite, I plan to obtain a license in Occupational Therapy by attending OT School. Success does not come from a pay check. For me, helping and assisting others acheive their goals is the purest form of success. I want to travel and eventually settle down in my hometown. My overall career goal is to give back to the community that shaped me into the person I am. I am a hardworking-dedicated student, who focuses on my work, yet I have always enjoyed being involved in extracirricular activities. As you can see from my application, I enjoy sports and clubs. In the following year, I plan to get deeper involved

“I received a Bachelor of Science degree in graphic communications and spent 7 years working in the prepress industry. After a 2-week trip to Italy, I realized I wasn’t happy with my life and needed to change. So, I quit my job, moved out to California,

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.

Something that make me smile, gets me excited, makes me do something is softball. I have played ball all since the day I could walk. I started off playing baseball since I was 2 years old. Then at age 8 I went on to play softball for a select softball team in Pearland. Playing softball has always made me smile! I love the intensity, excitement, and the teamwork that is used to play ball. We all look out for each other and try to pick each other up even when we are not all in the spirit. Some activities that involve science, technology, engineering, and math that I find to be fun is robotics and underwater robotics. Robotics has always been a big part in my life because my dad is a robotics teacher for this school and I always loved playing

A long time ago I moved to Denton, Texas for school, attended Texas Woman's for 4 semesters than dropped out.

Throughout all my years of education in elementary, math was the subject I hated the most, but now that I got older I realized that this subject has started to grow on me. Not until like about the 7th grade was it that I realized that math is really useful in life and I also realized that I wasn’t bad at math. The reason math interests me is because I like a challenge, if I don’t understand an equation I try to find out the steps myself and try to break down the steps in the equation in order to comprehend the problems. By doing this I ended up improving my analyzing skills. Because of my interest in math I gained an interest in the field of engineering. I looked further into the field of engineering by shadowing a mechanical engineer. I reached

“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.

Kids always here the same thing when they first tell their parents what they want to be when they grow up, “you can be anything you want to be if you work hard at it.” While that usually true it’s really hard to be a professional basketball player when you’re under 6’6’’. As we get older and still have that dream of being an all star our parents start to get a little more suggestive about our career choice we start to hear “always have a backup plan.” Hinting that they know we aren't going to make it that far. Then that one day finally arrives when they tell you that one thing every kid hears at least once in your life, “why don’t you be a doctor!” Yes the dreaded doctor kids all over the country fear, the evil man with his cold tools and pointy objects. Most kids immediately throw this idea out the window some of those kids decide this might be a good idea. Being one of those kids I quickly learned it’s a lot more complicated than me as a kid realized. The career I chose was a doctor more specifically a specialist of internal medicine. What internal medicine does is figure out

For many young boys and girls, the introduction to sports is often a life changing event. For me, it has been an indelible mark of endearment that has left me captivated since my earliest memory. While I would later go on to explore other passions such as business, law, and politics, it would be the synthesis of these affections that drives my career direction and goals. In any of life’s endeavors, inspiration and guidance is derived from 3 words: Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. While these three words on their own are only verbs, when placed together they are tied to every aspect of life, sport, business, and success. The words were stressed by my father, who learned their importance himself as a Sergeant the Marine Corps. Despite the immense

In looking back over my life and at the decisions that I have made, I can clearly see that some of the choices I have made were because of my daughter and the need to help other people. I married when I was young and was discouraged to seek employment and education even though I wanted too. There were many times that I would bring up education to my now ex-husband and he would tell me that I would not be good at that. When my daughter was born, my focus was on her until she was three years of age. At that point I began to want to work or go to school so my ex-husband found me a nice job at a church where I spent almost six years as a property supervisor. During this time the desire to go to college only grew inside me and

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.

My Career Plan The future is uncertain for me, but it is important to develop a career plan that will provide financial support and personal fulfillment over the course of my professional life. To make this transition from school to a professional career, I am going to plan a plan that will help me stay focused and motivated in meeting my goals and objectives. In the next paragraphs, I will explain my ten-year plan for my

I have chosen a career as a paralegal. This is a field that I expect will be both challenging as well as professionally rewarding. As a paralegal, I will assist attorneys in the delivery of legal services (National Association of Legal Assistants, 2008). A career in paralegal studies is a prestigious, professional adventure and offers a wonderful opportunity while enhancing ones knowledge of the law and provides for challenges, growth and advancement.