My I-Search Paper

As a senior at Red Cloud High School, I’m a member of National Honor Society, captain of the cheer squad, lifeguard, swimming instructor, and part-time employee at the local grocery store. I’ve come to learn from a young age that money doesn’t grow on trees. When growing up, it was just my mother and I. While living on her single parent income, I learned money doesn’t grow on trees. My mother worked a minimum wage job, facing financial struggles at times. Her willpower drove her to get the job she has today. My mother married, and I have a little brother now. As his big sister, I always wanted to be someone he could look up to. At the age of fifteen I became a lifeguard at the community pool. The next year I took classes to be a certified Water Safety Instructor, so I could teach swimming lessons to local children. That same year I applied at the local grocery store, to have a job during the school year.

As a young man entering my senior year of high school, my mind races as I try to figure out what it is that I’ll commit my life to. What will be the driving passion, the purpose of my existence, the reason I get out of bed every morning to face another day of this life? Some people would try to encourage me to choose a career simply for its potential to make me wealthy. However, looking at the degenerate lives of the rich and the famous around the world, its apparent to me that the pursuit of earthly riches alone isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. I’d rather spend my days in pursuit of something more fulfilling. As far as I can tell from my

All throughout school, students are ask what we want to be when we grow up. Many of us know or have a pretty good idea, but others have no clue what they want to pursue as a career in life, whether it be furthering their education at a university or attending a technical school. There are other students that plan to start work right out of high school. Either way we all have a plan, and the purpose of this paper is to inform you of mine. I personally struggle in making big decisions like deciding what to do with my life, but then I realized I have been asking myself the wrong questions. Instead of asking what I want to be when I grow up, I asked myself what do I want out of life? what are some of my goals that I wish to achieve? This led

Ever since I was a young child, my parents always told me to try my best in school, they always told me this for the reason that they never had the opportunity to have a good job because they never finished school. This event is shaping me to care a lot regarding my education. In addition to that, another event that has shaped me to become the person I am today is that since my parents don’t have good paying jobs they have to work hard to take care of me and my siblings this event has caused me to become a hard working person and to seize all opportunities to live a good life because I don’t want to struggle like my parents.

“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – famous comedian and writer, David Frost. The claim “It’s Not about You” written by David Brooks states that modern society has a prodigious advantage compared to previous generations when it comes to finding jobs and different styles of living after graduating from college. Of course Not only that, but young people today are exposed to several amounts of teachings and disciplines that are furnished by the elderly, in order to avoid the mistakes they made and fix the economic crisis they provoked. To finish off the argument, Frost gives the reader insight on why some people are more successful in life than others, by telling us that the path of success isn’t finding yourself and then following your dream, success is about finding what you want to do and then accomplishing what you want to do as an aid for society.

Nine years ago, I never could have imagined I’d be writing this essay. I was a senior in high school, and, like the rest of my classmates, I was apprehensive about the future. Unlike my classmates, I felt like I had missed the proverbial “you need to get your life together” message. I watched my classmates apply to colleges, their majors already decided and their future careers mapped out. While I was an above average student, I felt I lacked the decisiveness my classmates seemed to have. I did not feel passionate about a career or even a field of study. I felt defective. This was compounded by the financial strain I knew attending college would have on my family. It seemed wasteful to try to “find my passion” at school while squandering

When I first learned we were going to be writing an I-Search paper in English, I was excited. I liked the idea that we got to pick our own topic and that it could be anything we chose it to be. However, I didn’t realize at the time how hard it actually was to find the “perfect” topic. I had many topics in mind, but I didn’t realize all the time you had to put into finding a good topic. The first thing we did in class to help us find our topic was filling out a personal web. This personal web was mainly any aspect in your life that is important to you or interests you. We discussed our webs with a partner, and they attempted to find the topics that we mentioned more than once or something they thought would be a good topic. Nothing really clicked for me in my personal web. I did have some ideas for my topic, but they just didn’t seem interesting. A lot of my classmates found a topic when they filled in their web, but I still wasn’t sure. My partner and I found that a lot of the topics in my web were related to children and the medical field, but I couldn’t think of a topic that tied them both together and would suit me.

The speech “‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says” by Steve Jobs (2005), states that no matter what obstacle may be in place, if one works hard they can pass it. Jobs was adopted until a working class family, who save every penny they had to send him to college. Even though Jobs managed to go to college, he couldn’t find something he enjoy yet. Instead of wasting his parent’s money on college, he decided to quit. He quit in order to find his dream that been hiding in the depths. One he quit, he started walking in class on classes, such as calligraphy where he learned about typography. Even

Sixth grade language arts class brought a painful experience that I never knew was coming. My class went outside to work on an independent reading project, and all of a sudden, I started to get extremely itchy. My skin, throat and eyes started tingling and throbbing. I rubbed my eyes without thinking twice about what was going on, I'd never experienced anything like this before. I ended up itching my eyes so much that they started to get red, dry and inflamed. I could have sworn they were at least two times the size that they normally were, if not bigger. As I stumbled down to the nurse’s office, barely being able to see, I wondered ‘what's happening to me? What caused this?’

Based on my understanding of the Computer Technician position, here are the aspects of my background that seem most relevant to meet your needs:

How might someone clearly answer the question of "what motivates you?" or "what gets you out of bed in the morning?" Is it the fear of living a life of relative insignificance? Is it the potential of making a lot of money? Regardless of what each of our answers might be, over the years I have come to realize that life is too short to waste any amount of time doing something which I am not 100 percent in love with doing. Life is not a practice round or a warm-up lap; it is not a "means to an end" or a "stepping stone to what could be." Having one opportunity to explore and fulfill my personal legend, I am determined to seize it. Since the days of my youth there have been specific, deeply-rooted interests which have shaped the course of my

Success that I work towards in the future justifies the work I do today. Although school can be boring or make me weary, I know that there will be a payoff for the work I put in today. Without this meaningful ambition school would mean nothing but pass or fail. This passion of mine has allowed me to explore new interest that I would have not thought otherwise. I taught myself the world of finance and have invested in multiple stocks over the past couple years. This passion has also shaped my career choice as an investment banker. Without this passion, I would not be exposed to the world of finance which I have become obsessed with. It is evident that my strive for wealth has shaped the person I am today and who I will be in ten

This knowledge has made me lean toward what used to be my father’s and sister’s view on what I need to do for my future. I want to make as much money as I possibly can because money may not buy happiness but it certainly helps create it. I have become a person with many expensive and rich-like tastes that I cannot see me losing anytime soon. This dream of mine is not only for me, but is also for my wife and kids in the future; I do not want them to have to struggle for much of anything and if I can make that reality then it is a win for me.

At the beginning of my computer information course I was presented with challenge of writing a research paper. We were given several topics to choose from and I chose the topic of careers in information technology. The focus will be on the computer support specialist, the database administrator, the network and computer systems administrator, the computer, office machine and automated teller technician, the programmer, the software engineer, the cryptographer, the computer trainer, and the desktop publisher. I will explore what each profession is, the duties, the work environment,

"Too many college graduates enter into post grad on a chaotic job hunt without any advice on how to navigate through it. While in college you hear countless stories of people not finding employment after graduation but never do you actually think it would be you. If you graduated and immediately found your dream job then congratulations!! But this blog isn’t for you. It’s for the reader who has been filling out so many job applications that they aren’t even sure what they want to do anymore. It’s for the readers who disregard what they majored in just so they can enter the workforce. And lastly, it is for the reader who lives in their own disappointment, who have made sure they held internships, kept their grades up, and obtained the necessary skills but still can’t find employment. I am here to tell you that it is okay. Things will fall into place but you must keep your head up and stay on the path that was ordained just for you."