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My Future Career

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I have probably changed my mind when it came to my future career at least a hundred times. I have dreamt of being a teacher, a writer, a marine biologist, a baker, an occupational therapist, and many more things. Now, I know for a fact I want to go in to the medical field. I want to make a difference in people’s lives. After taking the job interest survey and going through the wide variety of jobs to my interest I have decided. I want to be a pediatric surgeon.

I have no doubt in my mind that my interests and my choice in career will change within the span of the next five years but for the past year I’ve been set on being a surgeon. I have hopped from speciality to speciality and at times thought it would be too hard and contemplated …show more content…

Also, every time I had to go to the doctor when I was little I dreaded it all the time, just like every other kid in the world. Doctor appointments are scary, especially when they end up involving surgery. In this career, I have the ability to put these kids that are going through a rough time that they did not ask for at ease and at least try to make them smile a bit. That reason alone is enough to make me choose this job and specialty.

Within the time from me deciding I want to be a surgeon to now, I have found out a lot of information about the occupation. You have to have many skills and abilities including active listening, critical thinking, judgement and decision making, oral comprehension, oral expression, and inductive reasoning. You also have to have integrity, concern for others, stress tolerance, analytical thinking, attention to details, and above all you have to be dependable. The knowledge that is required is what you would expect, medicine and dentistry, english language, and therapy and counseling. In order to become a pediatric surgeon I will have to get my doctoral or professional degree and go through an intern year and a residency. I plan on attending Dartmouth College which is an Ivy League School and ranked one of the best learning institutions in the world. The only downside is it is in New Hampshire. I planned on

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