Does the walker choose the path or the path the walker? Believe it or not, sometimes it’s the latter. People often ask me why I chose public service and working for the State Department and I often tell them it kind of just happened. Growing up I had a completely different career path mapped out for me. I want to work in early childhood education and had passion in developing the next generation. After finishing high school, I took classes and researched opening my own daycare. At age 19, I had a successful licensed daycare with one employee and eight students. This was the path I chose and excelled in it and I thought that this career was what I was meant to do.
After two years the house I owned and operated the daycare in began to have issues forcing me to sell the house and close my business. The discussion made me question whether the path I chose was the right one. Unable to decide what I wanted to do next I stumbled into applying for jobs in retail. I had no experience in retail, but was hired as a shift supervisor at a pharmacy because the manager was actually planning to hire a nanny in the future thought I was a good back up plan. As a shift supervisor in one of the largest pharmacies on the North shore that was used as a training store for new managers, I quickly learned different types of management skills and excelled at training employees at all different levels. The patience, calm demeanor and time management skills I used during my time running a daycare
Although, high school is not where I discovered my passion for children. Post graduation, I was concerned because I honestly had no idea what I wanted to do in life. The following summer I got a job at a Childcare Network daycare center. That job sparked my passion that quickly grew into the career dreams I am pursuing now. Currently, I am still employed at the same daycare center. This August will mark my fourth year anniversary of employment . I am funding my education by doing what I love! I also babysit frequently for several parents I have met through the daycare. This past month I was offered a position of employment at 10 Fitness. I am currently working at Childcare Network in the mornings and 10 Fitness in the evenings. I was hesitant to work somewhere not revolving around children and it is definitely been an adjustment, but I have now realized that taking this job has and will continue to assist me is numerous
The career that I have chosen to pursue is Human Resources Management. When I started out on the path of “what I want to be when I grow up” I started in a completely different line of work. I wanted to be a Nurse when I graduated high school. I enrolled in college and I worked at a children’s hospital. After a while I started getting burned out by working long hours and on the weekend and I started to wonder if this was the right career that I wanted to continue with. I was offered a position at a staffing company that tailored to physicians and nurses and I
Being a parent transformed me in unexpected ways. I found myself wanting to provide for my daughter and later my son the same security and benefits my parents had provided for me. I found a job at University Children’s Center. UCC provides care for children from the ages of 6 weeks to 6 years and I wanted to be close to my children. I worked with all the age groups but found my niche in the infant program. I enjoyed the close bonds I was able to form with both the babies and their families. I took great pride in creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. I took classes to become Infant Nursery Room Supervisor. Once again, I excelled in my studies and enjoyed the learning process. Bringing the information I learned into the classroom was
The majority of individuals follow in the footsteps that their parents set out for them. Trying to figure out who and what an individual wants to be can be difficult, often when others want that them to go down a certain path. Research shows individuals strive to work in the field as their parents if it catches their eye. Nonetheless when an individual reaches a certain age to finally decide what they want in the long run it's their choice whether to continue what their parents aspired for them to be.
While growing up my mother worked at a child development center educating children ages 3-5. I enjoyed watching her interacting with the children. So I decided to try to teach a few of the students like she did and I did very well. This is when I knew I wanted to be a teacher. I worked at Jefferson Place Learning Center for almost 5 years. There I decided there to obtain my CDA to groom my skills as an educator but I was not able to complete this. In 2011, I decided it was time for a change and I decided to leave Jefferson place and moved to KinderCare Learning Center. I really enjoyed working for KinderCare but due to transportation I had quit and I started to work Wal Mart. My heart was heavy because I knew that working for was not something
Making the decision on which path you will take in life is the main theme in “The Road Not Taken” and Sotomayor’s life. A connection I have with choosing path is in my life I have two choice to listen and be sucessful or don’t listen to my teacher and not get a good education.In life I chose to have a good education and be sucessful. When sotomayor was a child the “roads” that were available to her were careers she would want to do when she grew up and she had gotten a pamphlet about being “An actress a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, an engineer, a nurse, a teacher …”. Sotomayor really didn’t want to be those things what she had wanted to be was a detective but she couldn’t and she thought that was a “catastrophe!”. The choices or paths that
I currently work for for Kohl's as part time for my home town for the last 3 and half years. I am a cashier and I at times I work at the jewelry department.Kohl's works with with me and supports my decision to go to college, therefore I only work when I come home to visit. I used to work for a Daycare part-time, for 3 years before transferring to the University. It was a home daycare that had a Montessori style of teaching. This means that I had to create lessons that fit the needs of individual students, when I had my one to one lessons with them. I worked with students that ranged from one and half to five years old.
“Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘ Which road to take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.’’’ -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. This quote applies to my life because I do not know what I want to do with my life, I do not know which road to take. This quote tells me that it does not matter which road I take, as long as it is what I want things will be ok.
Martin, I am truly torn, one day I believe the path I have dreamt of my whole life is the one for me, and the next I believe that I should grow up, spend my time preparing for a future with a path that I could follow and know where it will end. Please, I implore you, what is the answer? What would you
Ms. Navarro’s had to work any time the store needed her and because of the lack of these important aspects put Ms. Navarro’s childcare in an all-time hardship had to move her mother in to keep her job. There was no support from Gavin’s father after he disappeared also put her at a disadvantage where she barely had a support system. Ms. Rivera helped out a grave deal but because the early mornings and late days had gotten harder to keep up with the unpredictable schedule Ms. Navarro had. Daycare policies are pretty strike on what time you should pick up and drop, to how many hours a day they are allowed to keep a child. My experience with childcare had hit me hard from trying to find someone to help me with my boys brings me back to before my mother passed away she had my boys more than I had them because I went to school during the day then worked all the way to five in the am, only a few hours before it was time for my boys to get ready for school. After my mother past I had to find someone to care for my boys and work around their schedule. I was afraid that I would loss my job because of the not have a stable schedule let alone stable pay. Not having control over my hours and the times put me at a stand point of being lost in the dark with other options on only working at a job that’s in the day time during schooling hours for my boys and if they got sick well then it was a whole other ball
There are no wrong choices but lessons to be learned and taught. It is important to me to have a long progressive career in an area that never falls short of opportunities to grow. From a young age I have been determined not to rely on others achievements so I’ve worked in a variety of health and social care areas such as a day care for children age 0 months - 5 years old.
When I was in high school my father introduced me to the power of the written word; the
I want to become an expert in my field. In May of 2016 I graduated from the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications and immediately began my career as an Air Force Public Affairs Officer. Part of my job as a Public Affairs Officer is to give advice and counsel to the commanders of the base when communicating with the public, the media or internal audiences. My commanders need to know they can trust my advice and that I have had the training necessary to make the right call. I want to further my education in mass communications to gain a deeper understanding of the field and to advance my career as and Air Force Officer.
I have always taken a different path than most of my peers. Sometimes I am told I do things the hard way but the hard way is necessary when the path that’s available isn’t the one you want to take. I am an entrepreneur and I enjoy creating paths. Ever since I was little I always had a project or business I was working on and I was always on the lookout for things people wanted but didn’t have enough of. When I was seven years old, I created and sold subscriptions to the Jackson Times; a family newspaper that portrayed important household events of the week. In the next few years, I created a pen and pencil trading business in school that while successful, netted me by summer over 50 pens, pencils, and erasers that I couldn’t possibly use myself. The surplus taught me to plan all the way to the end right from the beginning. Now as I plan my life, I realize what an enormous impact a formal education can have.
To choose your own future, destiny and life is very hard. Everyone wants to do something that makes them happy. But sometimes you take the wrong decisions or everything decides to go against you, which makes you stay in the box you were trying to escape from. When your dreams don’t get fulfilled, you will be in that box and wait for the light. It’s not always about what you want, but what you need. And to live a good life, and to do something productive, you have to work in a way that will make you happy, because that is what you need the most.