Personal Statement: A Career As A Career

Throughout my childhood and up into my middle school years, I had a solid plan for my life: to be an air traffic controller. It seemed like the perfect career for me. I am a highly organized and alert person. I like structure and to have control over the situations that surround me. And, most importantly, I find great satisfaction in helping others to meet their objectives and safely land at their desired destination. Air traffic control was the only career for me. I had my whole life planned out, including the exact airport where I would work. No one or nothing could sway me from the goals that I had set for myself.

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 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.

I have accomplished lots of things in my lifetime. I have accomplished getting a job and getting my license to go to that job. I have accomplished working two jobs one is being a machinist and a referee.

I chose this career so that I can make everyone in the world happy. I love to cook, clean, and even give orders occasionally. I want to have my own restaurant and have many of them all around the world. I want to be able to visit these restaurants at least three times a year each. I want to make my uncle happy by succeeding in the business. I want to be like him one day, happy with what I do and very successful. I want to bake a bunch of sweets for children all around for their birthdays and even just every day parties. I want my kids to come from school every day and get a treat for being so good. Mississippi has a very low amount of employees compared to other states such as California. I may go to Texas though because it is bigger than Mississippi and my uncle also lives there.

When I was around eight years old, I realized that my goals in life were very different from those of the people around me. Drawing, building, and getting my hands dirty with the work that I saw needed to be done around me were things I liked to do. My friends wanted to grow up to be actresses, chefs, astronauts, and one even wanted to be president; however, I was never like that. My younger self knew that when she grew up, she would want to do something that she loved, not something that everyone else wanted her to love.

My entire life I have always worked my hardest to get to where I am today. As a child, I had the dream of being a nurse or a detective, and I as I started getting older I became aware that the two job areas are very different and competitive. I believe my determination has been a key quality that has let me enrich my education and move forward with the health and criminal justice fields. I have been able to succeed in classes, as well as my employment opportunities because when I set my mind to something, there is nothing stopping me, and I am 100% determined to finish. Being hard working has also been something I’ve done throughout my life, I was always been told that things don’t just happen and that I have to make things happen. The ability

(Describe your previous involvement with relevant coursework, clinical work, research, and indicate your future career plans as they relate to your selected Pathway.)

A normal day includes: laying out all surgical tools to ensure they are in good working order, sharper knives and scalpels when necessary, transfer the body to examination table or refrigeration unit, assist the pathologist during the examination, and identify information on the patient

I did not choose student option just for a few credits, I choose it for a new learning perspective. I want to experience how guidance counselors handle the paperwork and how a job in the counseling industry would work. I was always curious about how a counseling job would work. For example, everyday I see school advisors just talk to students and help them through tough issues and also minor school issues like scheduling and the students never get to see how the counselors get it put into Genesis. That really interest me because I love to learn why certain things go the way they go and how would they even get there. I want to learn and understand what a school counselor would have to go through daily.

My career choices have bounced from veterinary school to becoming a teacher and possibly stopping at film and drama. Thanks to countless years of binge-watching anything from comedies, action and horror, I’ve become fascinated and infatuated with the idea of film-making and acting and what goes into the process. From scriptwriting to filming on set and final product of a full-length movie, I love it all. Though the process is long and tedious to be successful, it still has my attention and possibly has me pursuing a career in filming. I grew up in a family of hard-working and dedicated people. Strictly because somebody discourages doesn’t mean you can’t get back up and keep trying. I was also told that if I my nose to the grindstone I will be rewarded for my work, no matter how insignificant it may be.

The start of this project began in early October, and for the most part it was a relatively simple course of action to be prepared, coordinated, and reported for the majority of the school year. Its themes and priorities were simple in theory, however—volunteer, research post-graduation opportunities and ideas, and for the most part settle with a plan on how to address adulthood and future prospective careers and education. My choices led me to volunteer for the necessary twenty hours and my own curiosity has allowed for me to navigate the internet and other sources for ideas on careers, education, and even the possible jobs that I could acquire when moving from Pennsylvania after my graduation. There were many things to learn, but many things

I always wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But the truth is, like any professional sport not everyone makes it, and I don't think I'm going to make it. So therefore I have to focus on my future by getting a good job. That doesn't mean I'm giving up on my dream though. In order to do that I need to go to school further. I don't want to work long hours for little pay when I have the opportunity to go to school and get a better career. That is why I have to continue my education and I am willing to do what it takes.

As a child of Eritrean immigrant parents, I felt I was forced to choose from the four career choices that most non-American parents want their kids to fulfill; doctor, nurse, lawyer, or international businessman. At the age of five I was playing with stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs, not dolls and building blocks. When I started the third grade at Campbell Hill Elementary, I fell in love with volunteering in the special needs classes during my recess. Instead of playing with my friends outside, I would run to room 210 and help the teachers prepare games for the kids that would benefit their learning style, or slowly walk hand in hand with Rebecca, back and forth from hall to hall to help her become familiar with the school since she was blind. I chose to do this three times a week until I left for middle school. With the teachers encouraging me to continue with what I was helping them do, the decision was easy for me, I did not want to be a doctor, nurse, lawyer or international businessman, I wanted to be the best pediatric

As a pre-teen I would wonder what type of career, I would have. When I was younger I, would always assume what I would want to be when I'm older. Some of my “dream goals” would include being a teacher, firefighter, social worker, and a mental therapist. As I was growing up I, wanted to have one specific goal, to be a banker. That goal drifted away after I decided that banking wasn’t something I wanted to do. Then over the summer of two-thousand fifteen I got an idea what I wanted to be. I finally told myself I could be successful in this specific thing.