Career Evaluation Essay

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.

I will never look at a cubicle office job, a burger-flipping joint, or a salesman’s job and say, “that’s where I want to be in a few years.”. In my lifetime, I have never had an interest in an office job, quite unironically, I’ve always looked to the arts as a potential job source. I love colors, lines, shapes; I find beauty in it all. Art is all around us in this world, and I plan to contribute by becoming an animator. That is my dream job because it’s the ultimate way for me to utilize my creativity. I’ve jumped from multiple dream jobs to the next, at first I considered being a professional “fine arts” artist, working with pencil and any other medium to create classical pieces of work. As times progressed, I’ve slowly realized that the

My experiences and education has played an integral role in molding me into the person I am today. I chose to come to Michigan State because of the opportunities it will provide me. I faced many obstacles in high school and did poorly my first two years due to health issues. Applying to colleges was a major concern of mine, but with the support from my counselors and family I was able to get into a school as prestigious as MSU. I went from a 2.0 GPA my freshman and sophomore year, to a 4.0 GPA my junior and senior. I was very unhappy in the beginning of high school due to my lack of success, relationship with my parents, and health issues. When I finally realized I needed to make a change and started setting goals for myself, that’s when my happiness turned around. I can honestly say that I am the happiest I’ve ever been at Michigan State. I have been able to meet many new people, invited to the Honors College, and accepted into the business school. From this experience I believe happiness directly effects your success.

Career genograms are used to gain a graphic picture of the client’s career heritage. Through genograms clients are able to identify what their family members have done in the past, and themes evident among genders and other factors. Career genograms can also be used to identify roles, behaviors and attitudes of family members about work or careers. In addition, family pressures, standards, and expectations can also be made evident through career genograms.

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.

“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a

In order for me to complete this career assessment paper, I initially took an Interest Inventory survey. Upon completing this process, it revealed that my personality profile score was (I, C, A). These three letters represented my strengths and interests in determining which career field would best suit me.

Typically, when someone hears ‘medical field’, automatically you think of people with white lab coats and a stethoscope around their neck ready to take your vitals. Obviously this comes to mind because these doctors and surgeons are the face of the medical field, but in reality there is so much more. There are actually about 300 different occupations one can have in the health care field. A large part of that is nurses. Nurses are the basis of the medical field; they are almost as important as the patients themselves. They have always been a major part of our lives. Nurses have been with us since we first opened our eyes, from birth to broken bones, nurses were there. They have very difficult and extensive careers, they dedicate their lives to their work and to their patients. Some nurses spend long nights away from their family and friends to help others, at times their shifts can last as long as 24 hours. In my opinion nurses are the real super heroes, for this reason I have decided to pursue a major in nursing. I still have a lot to learn and many years of schooling to go, but personally its worth the wait.

The first day I was as lost as a newborn; no idea on how to weed whack or what I was doing while the wet freshly cut grass stuck to my boots. Billy gave me advice on it. I needed to cut the grass to the sweet spot so it wouldn't shrivel up dry and die but not need cut again right away. He showed me how to restring the weed whacker and showed me

I interviewed Officer Greenlee, who is a close friend. She works as a Correctional Officer for the Peoria County Jail, I interviewed her while we were on duty on Saturday, April 16th.

For me a Career is a livelihood profession carried out for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. A career is often composed of the jobs held, titles earned and work accomplished over a long period of time, rather than just referring to one position. It’s difficult to find a good career in which you can excel and move up for example, becoming a principal from a teacher, air force officer from a pilot ant etc.

The I would go into the zone and toughly groom a horse, tack up relatively quickly ride and focus on the things that horse really needed work on which Heather and I had discussed before she left. For the two mares that were having someone come look at them they both needed work on their lead changes. I achieved this by first warming up the horse including a lot of lateral work in each direction. Then I had a pole in the center of the arena and I would make a very large figure eight over it first at the trot focusing on bending/ changing the bend and moving off my leg aids. Then I would have the horse trot one half

Timing, concentration, dedication, devotion, patience, and respect are some of the many things I learned while working with horses. This project has taught me how to be respectful because if you don't respect the horse they won’t respect you, and that applies so much in the real world. Patience has never been one of my strongest suits, I always want things done with quickness and exactitude, but as I am working with horses all of that seems to change. Learning horsemanship is something that takes plenty of patience because sometimes the horse won’t do what you want it to do and you can’t simply tell it stop and rewind, you have to continue with what you had initially set out to do. The reason for that being, is that if you stop and rewind then you will confuse the horse and then it won’t know what to do. If someone were to ask me to describe this experience, I would say life changing. I really recommend people try working with horses because they can help you learn things about yourself that you never thought you could

My Career Plan The future is uncertain for me, but it is important to develop a career plan that will provide financial support and personal fulfillment over the course of my professional life. To make this transition from school to a professional career, I am going to plan a plan that will help me stay focused and motivated in meeting my goals and objectives. In the next paragraphs, I will explain my ten-year plan for my

The career services professional supports the educational mission of a college by assisting students to develop, evaluate, and pursue career aspirations with the goal of securing employment. Career services professionals accomplish these goals with a range of programs, counseling and services designed to help students make the connection between the academic environment and the workplace.