What Are Your Career Goals? How Might E2 / Mites / Mostec Help You Achieve?

At 17 years old, I had the grueling task of deciding how I wanted to spend 40 plus years of my life. I always aspired to land a career in the medical field, so I majored in biology like most pre-med hopefuls, but during my junior year, I no longer desired to become a physician. The medical field was calling out to me, but the specialty of focus was incorrect. After graduation, I went back to the basics and put my nursing assistant certification to use.

I was never the kid who already figured out what career I wanted to pursue. In fact, I had no idea of where my life was heading after high school till AP Biology. AP Biology became the pivotal

I remember as a young girl in elementary school and also in middle school I had three career choices that I narrowed down to choose from. I was either going to become

Some people grow up knowing exactly what they want to do; I, on the other hand, do not know exactly what career path I am going to take, but I have learned that is okay. I went through most of high school presuming that I had to have my life planned out by my senior year and I recently realized that was an unrealistic expectation to put on myself.

I Remember my freshman year like it was just yesterday, I wanted to be a welder just like my dad. I even went through all of Ms.Negal steps for success class finding all the information about a welding career and what it would take to become a welder, but I was also looking at career in business to I just wasn’t saving anything like the welding career. After my freshman year, my parents got separated. I decided to live with my mom. That was my first big step of not being like my dad. My next year of high school I didn’t really focus on any career in specific it was a debating period of what I want to become. When February finally rolled around I decided to sign up for a few classes in the business department instead of industrially tech classes.

It wasn’t until my senior year in high school when I realized that I needed to decide what to choose as a career field in which I actually had an interest in pursuing. My aunt handed me a bunch of pamphlets that dealt with a variety of different career types: business, criminal justice, education, etc. That was when I came across the healthcare field. I have always loved being able to help others as much as I am able to. There were plenty of field’s that sounded interesting but that’s when I came across the one that I was eager to begin my college career on.

I had no idea what I really wanted to do for the rest of my life. All my friends knew exactly what they wanted to be nurse, cop, mechanic, firefighter, and even a surgeon. But me, no I was so baffled on so many choices that I could not make up my mind. Due to me loving to help others I strongly considered being a Nurse so I could help elderly,

Growing up I knew that I wanted to study science and explore the human body with the goal of helping people. With exploration of career options later in middle school, I realized that medicine was the path for me. My parents did not achieve Bachelor degrees and while I knew logically that they would support me, I did not have the confidence to pursue such a big dream. In high school, I became more and more involved and worked outrageously

Everybody does not know at an early age, what they would like to be in life. Some of us need time to discover our gift, passion or destiny. I’m one of them. After two careers and struggling the idea of want to do my remaining time on earth, the decision was made to start a third career, that had substance and geared toward building a better place to rear my children.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, I do not have either. The educational and career paths of my immediate and extended family are diverse and there is no one person telling me what I should want to be. That is why the Undecided/Exploring Program at NC State initially peaked my interest. I thought, maybe it is okay

In middle school, I thought I would go into architecture since I like drawing and wanted to help my parents remodel my childhood home. But after my freshman year of high school, I realized that I really didn't want to go into that field. So, when I took one of the personality quizzes that was required for graduation and it suggested that I should look into fields like psychology or library science. From there, I started to look back at my childhood and I realize that I would prefer a job in some kind counseling because I would often try to be the mediator in arguments since I listened to both sides and I would often imagine myself explaining why a person may be feeling this way and how they can improve themselves. I also grew up around a lot

When I was in third grade, I told my mom I would became a great teacher just like my amazing third grade teacher. She was a caring, helpful and awesome teacher and everyone loved her. I was positive about my decision until I was in middle school. The teachers I had were amazing, but seeing them had to deal with the students with problems made me changed my mind. I did not know what I was going to be until I was in high school. I have many cousins who are in medical field; one of them is a nurse, one is a scrub nurse, one is a pharmacist, one is a family doctor and another one is a prosthodontist. I got influenced and inspired by many great people in my family, so I decided to be in medical field. But deep down inside, I was still unclear about what path should I take.

If you ever take a walk one day, look around at all of the electronics, whether it's the woman on her smartphone downloading the latest app, or the man on his laptop updating his profile on facebook. There is always going to be electronics around you, and all of those electronics are changing. Those changes need to be developed and then those developments need to be made sure that they are in tip top shape. I want to be that person who makes sure that those electronics stay in tip top shape. I have wanted to be a computer mechanic since late elementary school, when I first learned about how fun it was to take apart computers and build them better and faster. I know there is more to the computer repairing industry then just opening computers and looking inside for anything wrong with it. There is reading all of the error codes and finding out the problem and fixing it. But reading error code and fixing those problem are something that is very useful to be able to know how to do, and could have many uses for outside of just working.

I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to do with my life while I was growing up. Many of my friends as I got older would speak passionately about their love of animals and dreams of becoming a veterinarian. Others would talk about becoming farmers or teachers just like their parents. I could not relate to any of them because I could not think of anything I was interested in let alone extremely passionate about. My parents worked standard jobs for a paycheck, nothing they found joy from. I was at a loss as what to do with my life until I became pregnant with my first child. I found myself not knowing anything about pregnancy, birth, or babies. The first thing I did was I went out and got every book I could find on the topics of my current condition. At first I would read a little bit and then I found myself completely fascinated about what I was learning. The more I learned, I realized that I had found my passion.

My explanation somehow did not work well. I started struggling between my career and my father’s “career”. Before it was too late to decide my major, I gave a chance for myself and picked something related to my future career.