Jerry Murray Character Traits

Our Senior year is rapidly approaching and sooner or later all of us will have to make an important decision. If we will be going to college, where we will be going to college, and most importantly: what our major will be. Thankfully during our U.S. Literature class we are taking a career unit to better understand ourselves, our interests, and future careers we would like to investigate deeper.

Jerry’s job is a helicopter pilot that looks for news and stories for the television. While Jerry has been looking for stories for his news feed, he has saved many lives along the way. When someone saves a person, they are bringing others closer together. By saving lives, Jerry has brought others together in seeing how easy it is to get lost or lose your life in dangerous landforms or adverse conditions.

When I first met Jerry Hendrickson, I thought he was pretty outgoing. I was sitting with my friend, Maddie, at a table in the corner of the dining room at Morningside of Branson Meadows. He was laughing already, which made me think he was a jokester. We were instantly able to hit it off because he was really easy to talk to, which made asking questions and actually connecting with him a lot easier.

II Volvo’s “Painfully Beautiful” is a song that exemplifies the tension and battling relationship that exists between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. Lyrics such as “You walk by on the street, Take my breath from me, You’re out of my reach, You’re all that I see,” shows how Abigail feels at the end of her relationship with Proctor, when he pushes her away when she clearly still has feelings for him. These lyrics are thoughts that Abigail has about John, however, he does not feel the same way. With the lines, “You walk by on the street, Take my breath from me,” the connection created is that John Proctor “takes Abigail’s breath away” because of their past relationship and how much she misses him. Abigail sees Proctor frequently, but not with her, causing some

What I have learned over the time in this course is career counseling incorporates all aspects of the individual. Yes, career counseling is focused on helping people find that career that fits them best matching their interests and personality but deals with other issues in the individuals’ life. The theory that resonates most with me is Holland’s theory and the use of Self-Directed Search (SDS) to identify interests, abilities, and personality (Sharf, 2013). When we were able to complete the Strong Interest Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Career Report and compare the result with the SDS to recognize the consistencies. These assessments reinforced my choice of becoming a professional counselor, although with my past career history

I must be careful” (Lessing 1). From this point on Jerry sets goals for himself that help him mature and stay away from the way he acted in the first few paragraphs.

In our generation today High School students are at the age of having to know what they want to do for a career and what are the components the students need to have to achieve this. When choosing a career or career choices this is a main focal point in a young person’s life. There are many practical approaches and beliefs when approaching career selecting and it can be an intensive process. A first step in a career planning process would be assessing an individual/client with evaluating their willing/eagerness in the process (Gerstan, 2013). When looking into a specific career, planning with a high school

This advice makes young adults believe that they only can choose a career based on what they love to do, which is not the case in reality. Dr. Marino appeals to authority, uses anecdotes,

Though a generally overlooked and unappreciated field of work, career counseling has made significant impact in the field of psychology. Frank Parsons’ 1906 lecture, “The Ideal City,” emphasizes the need for young people to receive assistance in choosing a vocation (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2013). Further, Parsons was one of the pioneers in linking personality traits to vocational success, thus coining him as the father of vocational guidance (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2013).

For many people, finding a career that is both fulfilling and practical is a strenuous task. Fortunately, there is a plethora of different interventions, techniques, assessments, and inventories designed to aid those individuals in making the wisest career choices possible. But are any of those routes inherently better than the others? Or are all the differing options separate but equally effective? Donald Super’s Life Span Theory and John Holland’s Theory of Vocational Choice are just two of the many theories used for career counseling. Both methods are distinct in the way they approach career issues, yet despite their differences, there are some resemblances between the two theories as well. Comparing and contrasting these two theories will make it easier to see if one theory is better than the other for career counseling or if they are both equally effective.

I woke up this morning and felt like something was not right. There was this smell in the air, a rotten smell. I looked outside and saw smoke emanating from the top of Mt. Vesuvius. I realized what the rotten smell was it was sulfuric gas, but it was very odd because nobody had found that it was a volcano. It had never done this before. There were ashes everywhere. Maybe Mt. Vesuvius was just on fire. I noticed something on the edge of the mountain. It was very strange, it was red and glowing. It looked like a mass of fire but instead of flames it was gloppy and looked sticky. It was lava! I ran out of my room and outside people were trying to flee from Naples, and Pompeii where I live. They were trying to escape from the waves of gas and ash.

Deciding on what you want to be or do for your career is a difficult task everyone faces

What comes to mind when I think of binge watching? I guess, in a very technical sense, its watching more than a couple episodes of something. I see the term, less connected with watching movies. I suppose you could binge watch movies, but I think that the term has more connotations with television programs rather than movies. To me, I think binge watching implies that you are watching multiple episodes of some kind of series.

Looking back on my sophomore and junior years of high school, I had a very difference idea of how my life was going to turn out. I worked three days a week on my school’s radio station, WBMT, and played guitar during my free time. I was going to major in business and minor in communications and hopefully pursue some career in music production and management. From middle school until late high school, that was the way I was going to affect people, through music. While I had worked as a camp counselor, and had experience working with children, it just wasn’t a path that I thought I could turn into a career. As I grew up and had new experiences, I began to reevaluate my plans for myself.

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.