Identifying The Career Path That One

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.

Ever since I came to college I’ve adopted more interest in my career options than ever before. Before coming to college I knew I wanted to help kids, so I already had a social worker in mind. However, I came only to Cedar Crest College only wanting to be a DHS worker, but coming here I wanted more. Also beforehand I had a passion for criminal justice, because I always wanted to protect people who have no voice so I wanted to incorporate that with social work. Not only did I add a second major, but I added two certificates as well.

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

One of the many issues I faced as a collage student was choosing the correct major. I did not know what I wanted to accomplish after collage once I entered the work force. I had always seen myself in business somewhere but I never had a revelation on which major was the best for me. I realized that I needed some direction to my life and that I couldn’t get through collage without choosing a career path to take.

hen I first started college here at the University of Southern Mississippi, I was undecided on what I wanted to do in the future. I have always been very passionate about working in the medical field and knew that was something that I could see myself doing in the future. I first started out majoring in Biology, because I wanted to be a Physical Therapist. Throughout high school my career interests switched back and forth from physical therapy to nursing. I decided to major in Biology because I was very interested in science and knew there would be plenty opportunities to learn more about it. During sophomore year I continued thinking about nursing and eventually knew that my heart was leading me towards changing my major. After I changed

When I was a child I wanted to be a veterinarian, I had such a passion for “helping” my furry little friends with the plastic toys my mom got me for Christmas. I was so dead set I never wanted to explore any other career field, well that lasted up until about middle school when I witnessed my first dog pass away. It was all downhill from there. So, after, I lived my life going with the flow and not thinking about much else except for friends, sports and school. Then the time came for me to choose what I really wanted to do junior/senior of high school when college applications were due and my parents really wanted me to pick a major before I started college. I knew I wanted to follow in my parents footsteps and do something in the medical field,

When I first started college, I had several questions I asked myself regarding my future. I thought about what my major would be and what my living arrangements would look like post-grad, but I never questioned what my future career would look like. While I had an overwhelming amount of options, I always had a fixed certainty that I would be in the medical field. The only question was in what capacity? Coming in as a freshman, I could have studied to be a surgeon, a doctor, or even a medical lawyer. Ultimately, I knew that changing people’s lives through medicine was my passion—I just needed to find an outlet. However, not once did my 18-year-old self think that I would find my way into a nursing career. As I’ve come to find, life rarely works out as planned. What lead me on the pathway to becoming a nurse is all but conventional, yet I would not change any

After finishing my studies, my goal is to work as an Oncology Social Worker. I did not always think this way, but a lot changed throughout High School. After witnessing a dear family member fight their second battle to cancer and sadly loosing, I knew I wanted a career where I could offer the emotional support that they had not received during a dark time in their life. I pondered for some time. My senior year rolled around and that was when I had my own experience with how frightening cancer is when I had my own scare. From that moment on, I knew I needed to work alongside the issue if I were to truly have an impact on it. That was when I learned about Oncology Social Worker and how it catered to help not only the patient but their support

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 very little I wanted to be a fashion designer then I started to realize I had no real creative skills in sewing drawer or anything like that. Which upset me a bit, but I figured out I loved helping people and making them smile and feel good about themselves since I never felt that way so I decided to become either a psychiatrist or a nurse, I wasn't sure which one would be the best fit for me until I got into high school and got into an anatomy program and physiology program and I had more fun in the anatomy program. So i decided to try and go for medicine after high school and become a nurse, while in anatomy i learned that you could choose which area you wanted to study in and since i love working with younger people or people around my own age i decided a medicine would be the best fit for me at least that's what I believe. These Experiences have helped me be the person I am and stand out a bit more than I used to. I've had so many bad and good experiences in my life. My grandpa went to the hospital for a seizure, my uncle had ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and my other grandpa on my moms side died from liver cancer. These things that have happened in my life has wanted me to get kinto helping other people and fixing them not just their mind but there internal physic

Until the very beginning of my junior year i had absolutely no clue what i wanted to do. I have decided that i want to go into the healthcare field. When i first joined HOSA ( Health Occupational Students of America) i knew i wanted to be some kind of RN (Registered Nurse), but i didn't know what field i wanted to specialize in. Now i'm close to the end of my junior year and i have decided that i either want to be a Trauma RN or a Pediatric RN.

Since a very young age I have known that I belong in the medical field. While I wasn’t exactly sure what profession it would be in, I knew that I was called to care for and serve others. It wasn’t until I spent a good amount of time in the hospital and under went numerous surgeries due to a dirt bike accident that I knew a nurse was what I was meant to be. The nurses that cared for me had every quality I aspired to be and played a huge role in my healing process. They were patient, kind, compassionate, hopeful, diligent, selfless, gregarious, and their job challenged them every single day. While I know being a nurse is very stressful and demanding, the rewards of the job far exceed any tribulations. This is exactly why I want to pursue a career

Having a fascination with how people interact with one another, this has lead me to believe that nursing is the best degree option for me. It made me realize what I want to do with my life. I was really confused and lost when people would ask me what I wanted to go into I had a lot in mind. But as I did some researches I narrowed it down to only 2. And finally realized that nursing was the perfect match for me since I liked working and

For as long as I could remember my mother would tell me to start thinking about what I wanted my career to be. She would tell me that the years will fly, and the next thing I would notice is it is time to pick a career. I always thought of the most basic things like a teacher or nurse. In high school I thought about becoming a children’s nurse. In my sophomore year I began to have doubts about what I wanted. In August 2010 which was the summer before my junior year my family suffered a loss.

Finding a specific career path can not only be difficult, but it can also induce bouts of anxiety, anger, and sadness over a crucial part of an individual’s life. Settling on a career can be unnerving when thinking about the fact that this is the career that you spend thousands of dollars on in college, that this is the career you will work in until you retire. With this course, I’ve found that it has been easier to narrow down a goal towards finding a career. Through career assessments, different assignments and discussions, I have realized what my barriers and strengths are. Overcoming these and improving these skills or applying them to an actual career assisted me in narrowing my goal as well. I am now able to clearly see the advantages and disadvantages of my career goal and to think clearer about the next steps that I will take after this course.