My Experience On My Career

In a world where the rationale of our youth is quickly dismissed as meaningless clichés, it is easy for our heart’s true passion to drown in a sea of deceitful ambitions. Frequently, it takes many trials and lack of success as well as achievements, for one to truthfully discover him/herself. I instinctively progressed through the motions of life. The big encouragement came from none other than Nelson Mandela, whose famous saying, “it always seems impossible until it’s done” has always been a great motivation and inspired me not to get discouraged with failure; rather look forward to your goals. Many options were available and choosing a career as I grew up kept altering, until one day when I saw how helping other people is my sole purpose of life. Getting to know more of physician assistant drove me into the thoughts of pursuing it as a career. Every day is a gift to be embraced wholeheartedly. It is our job to fill that day with a hopeful and meaningful purpose.

In Drive by Daniel H. Pink he explains that motivation 3.0 is energy that is intrinsic. We as human being have a purpose in life and we need motivation to push and strive to find our purpose. The key to motivation is autonomy, its the freedom to do a task when, where, and however you like. i agree that autonomy is important because to work in a place where something is done the same over and over is really boring there no changes and theres no fun. To be in a work place that allows freedom give you the chance to explore and be creative, allows you to have more fun so you don't hate the task and not be motivated to complete it.

In the book Drive by Daniel H Pink he talks about various things that could come in handy. Pink talks about how people should change to Motivation 3.0 and leave behind Motivation 2.0.Motivation 3.0 is for someone to continue with their life and have a better future with doing things that you love and would want to do for your rest of your life. Which Motivation also talks about Type X behavior which leads to three types of behavior autonomy mastery and purpose, this explains how people use them to become someone better in their life and show us how that involves with Motivation 3.0. This is something I keep in consideration, that’s why I consider myself in having a Type I behavior that can lead as well with Motivation 3.0.

In his book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink lays out the groundwork for what he calls “Motivation 3.0.” Pink opens his book with the acknowledgement of the past drives of human behavior. Originally, humans’ main drive was biological. Hunger, thirst, and sex are the main three components of this drive. The next drive recognized is the drive most commonly used by businesses today, Motivation 2.0.

My name is Elana Sanguigni, and I am a sophomore student at Pine-Richland Senior High School in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. My interest in the Health Career Academy is immense, and I exhibit a profound interest in a future career in the health industry. The Health Career Academy, would provide enlightening educating opportunities to gain valuable knowledge, pertaining to various health careers. Though I have conducted some research and analyzed various health career fields, I truly aspire to explore and learn more in order to academically prepare for a future in the health industry. My academic love for Biology, Chemistry and all science courses, in addition to my love and care for people have led me to inquire a path of future health careers to utilize my desire to help people.

In Drive the Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink’s main argument is to better function in the world by using Motivation 3.0 and changing Type X people to Type I people. Why does Pink say that we need to use a new Motivation to change from Type X to Type I people?

The only improvement I could think of would be if I could have shadowed a single engineer for a period of time to see exactly what his job consisted of. I was almost always busy with a project so I was not able to continually watch what they were working on. I understand that while I am there to learn, they also expect me to contribute to the overall goals of the company.

I had the privilege of starting my career at Union County College in July 2007 as an Adjunct Faculty member of Chemistry. For the past 10 years, I have served our students in different capacities, such as the Faculty Coordinator for American Honors Program, the Chair of the Chemistry Department, the Faculty Advisor to Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, and the Faculty Advisor to the Student Government Association.

After moving to Tennessee, my new school had several different characteristics that my old school did not have. One of the characteristics that I am thankful for is having different youth organizations to be a part of at an early age. One of the youth organizations was 4-H and ever since my first 4-H club meeting, I have been dedicated to 4-H and Extension. It was through my 4-H experiences that allowed me to gain several scholarships to me accomplish being able to be the first person in my family to graduate college.

In my academic future, I would like to study the career path and field of Genetics/Genomics. The field of genetics is a captivating subject with the potential for immense growth in numerous career fields. The opportunity to thrive in a field that will not only occupy and fascinate me, but consequently also provide the opportunity to make a difference in the world is an aspiration of mine. Moreover, ascertaining new facts about genomes that could lead to genetic diseases being discovered earlier and furthermore the opportunity to share my findings with the world is my ambition. In addition, I want to discover various specifics about our genetic code that will hopefully inspire future generations to consider pursuing a career in the field of

As I sit down to take up a controller and power on the game console, I prepare for the amazing graphical fidelity, mesmerizing gameplay, and incredible music, it constantly reminded me how this one machine could do it all, as well as programs, computers, and code. 8th grade was where I began that journey to grow my liking for electronics. Now, Lehigh gives me the chance to continue my quest like an adventure game, a chance to reach challenges to solve and reach my ultimate goal. Exactly as I envisioned, Lehigh allows me to work with others, use my skills to practice out in the real world, and most of all, do research and create projects through ABET and Lehigh's Integrated Product Design (IPD) program. With research, I would like to go deeper

David Pink believes that Motivation 3.0 is the best type of Motivation there is because he thinks that having a mixture of Motivation 1.0 and Motivation 2.0 will help us in almost

"The judge has made his decision, the accused has been found guilty." These are the words that one day I will finally hear. My future goal is to be a lawyer. A lawyer is a professional person authorized to practice law. They defend or prosecute people for the crimes they have committed. (dictionary.com) I am very out spoken and believe in fighting for what I want or think is right.

The book Drive was able to make me realize when looking at my future career, I need to ask myself, “What will make me happy for the rest of my life?” and not “What will make me rich?” Daniel Pink the author of Drive makes a solid, science built point regarding motivation 3.0 in his book. For the 21st century, we are in need of more people that allow themselves to have autonomy, purpose and mastery in their life. To become successful and achieve happiness in their careers. Able to look at my future career as a specialist instructor/teacher in a different point of view. After reading the book I was able to understand how I can apply some of these methods to achieve my goals and also be happy in my career. Most of us look at our future and think we need to select a career that can offer us a 6 digit year income, without understanding if that career will bring us satisfaction.

My career path was rerouted after the birth to my son. I was managing a 24-hour Alarm Monitoring Call Center with two years of college education in Psychology. Due to an inconsistent work schedule and difficulty locating Psychology courses that worked around my schedule, I decided to change my career path to Business Management, since I already had nearly 8 years experience in supervision and management. My mentor introduced me and made me familiar with the Dictionary of Occupational (DOT) following high school. The DOT is comprised of all occupations and job titles, salary ranges, responsibilities, and industries (Berry, 2003). As I prepared for my new journey, I evaluated my decision, researched, planned, applied for new occupations that interest me, and prepared for my new career in Management.