Open Letter

In life, one will always have to make important choices. One of the most vital decisions one must make in one’s entire life is choosing a career. For some people, choosing a career can be very difficult but for me it was the total opposite. Ever since I was a little girl, I have always felt the need to help everyone around me. My family members would always call on me to take care of them and I always took great pride in it. I always seized the opportunity to take special care of my pets when they were ill. I knew what my calling was even as a little girl and it was to become a doctor. Right now, however I am on the way to becoming a Registered Nurse (RN).

I was indecisive of my future career path. My mom would tell me the classic “You should be a lawyer” or “You should be a doctor.” I would go along with her idea for a couple weeks until I jumped off the bandwagon. I wasn’t passionate about either of those fields; I was interested in both math and science and as a young girl. As I got older, I became invested in technology due to my love of gaming, but I didn’t know that people devote their lives to technology until I interned.

Way back when I first started college, my priorities were not clear. I knew I wanted to do something that I can be proud of, it was only a matter of what do I really want that will fill my life and complete me as a person. I was in the manufacturing field since I was 19 years old and yet, I felt a hole in my heart. I got to a point where I stop growing as an individual and it became apparent that I wanted to do something more significant. That void became the fuel to pursue something bigger and life changing. I tried to dig deep and really tried to figure out what I want in life and at the same time I started taking classes that can go towards any degree in the medical field. Taking care of people has always been a part of me. I took care of

April 1st 2016, more than 340 thousand students had to spend the school time in churches, libraries, parks, or other places without teacher. It was an April Fools' Day but the Chicago Teachers' Strike was not a joke. Not long after the first strike in 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union walked out again. Thousands of teachers and their supporters gathered at schools and City Hall, shouting that they protest for low wages and unfair labor practices. Karen Lewis, the CTU President, says that they hope this "act of war" can bring pressure to the governor Bruce Rauner, so that they can have changes like better pensions, fairer raises and more autonomy on school work. Obviously they did not get what they want from the first

I used to think the only road to happiness was having a fancy degree from a private school which would lead to a life of luxury and ease. I thought that if I became a doctor, I could be happy because my work could be my family. I never wanted a family when I was younger, so I thought a doctor’s schedule could fill my days. Also, I never thought about the reality of going to school for twelve years and the debt that endeavor would eventually accumulate. Over the course of four years I have spent in high school, my plans have changed into a realistic career

Why did you choose your profession? Was it because of the amount of money you would

Hard work and empathy were instilled in me at a young age and ultimately have guided my life decisions. I always knew I wanted a career doing something that involved helping people and left me feeling that I made a difference in their lives. I finished my undergraduate degree in Nutrition, but in the end lacked passion for the profession. Following a personal experience with an Occupational Therapist, I was able to see the positive outcome she had on my grandfathers recovery which lead me to pursue my career in occupational therapy.

I have struggled through many years trying to find the perfect career I wanted to do for the rest of my

Then I thought, that means oversaturation and high competition finding a job. The main reason that changed my career choice is my thought of how of what if in the future I am a hygienists working under a dentist and I want to become a dentist as well; why not save time and just go to school now and become what I really want and not regret it

In my early forties, I was given a second chance to choose a career. I was laid off from my workplace of 18 years due to a slump in the oil industry. I started working with an employment agency to perfect my resume and come up with creative ways that my skills transferred to other industries, but my heart wasn’t in it. My job had meant to be a short-term pit-stop on my way to realizing my true purpose, one that got too comfortable. This was an opportunity for me to select a meaningful career that I could be proud of.

One of the lessons that l have learned in life is that learning, growing, and improving never ends. It is the purpose of life. For me, leaving my major and going back to school to become a Radiologic Technologist was one of the biggest and most important decisions of my life. However, I was looking for a positive change in my career. I wanted to do something that I enjoy doing, and that would open doors to professional advancement and further career opportunities for me. Working in environments where I constantly interacted with others for the last several years made me realize that interacting with and helping other people is much more enjoyable to me than sitting behind a computer and dealing with papers and numbers. After considering a lot of deciding

Obviously, teacher’s strike infringed students’ right to study. According to Washington post, “Move by the Chicago Teachers Union means that the city’s nearly 340,000 students will miss class, throwing their families’ daily routines into disarray.” (Washington Post-Chicago teachers go on strike, shutting

I have only wanted to do 2 things in my life, be an army medic and my dream job of being a firefighter. I was lucky, I had the ability to do both. It took losing my dream job, to set me on the path to become a Recreational Therapist. While there are many minor reasons and supporting factors that helped with my decision, my decision to get my bachelors in Recreational Therapy comes as an extension from my time as a medic in the Army; I still want to care for my brothers, combat vets, and get them back to enjoying life.

During the first semester of 2016 in schools across Nova Scotia, teachers began discussing the potential of a union strike. The Supreme Court of Canada has declared the right to strike to be fundamental and protected by the Constitution (Fine, 2015), therefore a strike within a union is acceptable and a basic human right to express oneself, now and during the period of classical liberalism. On December 5th, 2016, teachers began work to rule, which affects the students and society`s right to proper, free education just as classical liberalism concerns itself with the rights and freedoms of the individual, but individual liberty often conflicts with the rights and freedoms of other individuals or with the rights of society as a whole (Canitz, 2018). In this case in particular, in a classical liberal point of view, it would be completely acceptable in the case of the teachers speaking their minds, although I agree with the ideology of classical liberalism, in my point of view there are also aspects in which I believe to be unfair for the student parties, speaking from experience as this happened during my last year of high

I am more limited in many career developmental opportunities because I have not completed my college degree.