Pursuing My Career Goals

What are your specific career goals for the future? How does this scholarship fit into your plans to achieve these goals?

Growing up in a home where both my parents teach and also pastors, instilled in me strong moral values, respect, integrity and an attitude of hard work. Being exposed to youth leadership in the church, involvement in high school soccer and athletics is another area that helped me build character and understand the benefit of working as one part of a team to achieve our goals.

As a six-year veteran of the US Army, I have taught and instructed people from multi-cultural backgrounds, vastly different education levels, and without regard to age all while traversing language barriers, cultural, and social norms, with great success. In my pursuit to continuously better myself, I have dedicated my educational goals to understanding what motivates people in the dynamic environments they find themselves. As well, my graduate thesis, titled “The Ethical Choice: Who Should Decide the Fate of Youth Sexual Assault Victims Who Become Pregnant?” gave me an impeccable foundation in quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Throughout the rollercoaster of a ride the past two years have been, I have been involved in a numerous amounts of extracurricular activities ranging from volunteering, babysitting, and of course, athletics. Most notably have been my contributions via athletics. Besides being a member of the varsity football team my sophomore to senior year (while being a captain my senior year) and a member of the varsity track team my senior year, being in these sports has given me many opportunities to give back to my community. Football players are not known to be the brightest of the bunch and often times, need an extra hand in academics. During my sophomore and junior year, I tutored a few of my fellow teammates to insure they got their G.P.A up and was able to compete on friday nights. In track, I did many fundraisers and similar dog sitting friends and family. Other extracurriculars I have done the past 2 years include being nominated for the National Society of High School Scholars and the

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In my junior year of high school, it suddenly became my dream to become an optometrist. This started soon after my first job shadow at Stine Eye Clinic in Weston my junior year. I had always been drawn to eyes and how they work, and seeing an optometrist first hand sparked something inside of me that instantly caused me to fall in love with optometry. A little later in my senior year, I did a second job shadow at the Eye Clinic of Wisconsin. Not only did I still feel the same way about optometry as I did the year prior, but it enforced the idea this is what I really want to be doing for the rest of my life.

Orthopedics is the medical field I plan on going into, I hope to specialize in pediatric orthopedics because I love the thought of being able to help heal a child from something that is causing them pain, something that they nor their parents can heal without the help of a physician. Orthopedics has not always been my first choice in the medical field, I was also considering going into the cancer research field. I was choosing to go into the cancer research field because when I was just an infant my grandmother passed away from lung cancer, I want to keep that from happening to other children’s family members. My mom always wanted me to succeed in life and to do what I know I love, the thing that I love is medicine, health care, healing others, and fixing health disabilities that no one else wants to try to

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Resources and support are available to me and that I will use to help obtain my career goals are professional connections/resources and institutional connections/resources. My professional connections include and atmospheric chemistry professor at Emory University and a mentor who recently left Emory University to go work at the census bureau in Washington D.C. Through the professor at Emory I have access to a lot of the universities resources such as access to scientific journals, I can attend seminars, I can ask for opportunities for research, I can also ask for opportunities for networking through her colleagues, I have a friendly professional who I can ask questions, and I have a professional reference with whom I have done work with. With

My academic goal is to graduate Argosy University with a bachelors degree in Forensic Psychology in three years time. Forensic Psychology is the study of the criminal mind, in a nutshell. The main motivation to achieve this goal would be intrinsic. I love asking questions and knowing the answers as to why people do what they do, and in a criminals case, what led them to committing the crime. This goal, however, may have some extrinsic motivation as well. Being knowledgeable about certain behaviors that criminals poses may help solve or even prevent a crime. In addition, having a degree will help open different paths in life, ones that may present me with greater job opportunities. My attitude toward the learning process will help my achievement of each goal because I am eager, determined and motivated. My greatest desire is to succeed in life, and obtaining an education is one thing I know will help me. I perhaps will need to make some adjustments along my journey. I do not know yet if I will find another educational path that intrigues me the most. For now, I do not feel that any adjustments need to be made.

Scholarships are more than just an amount of money; they are are steps to help reach your goal. If I was awarded this scholarship, it would put me one step close to paying for my college education and my goal to help people. My personal goal for when I get out of college is to work for the agricultural sector of the government and to be involved in politics. I have a dream of one day being in the position where I can develop an organization that would teach inner city families how to produce food on their own. I would teach them the basic concept of urban agriculture, which is growing produce in a heavily populated town or municipality. My goal would be for them to realize that they do not need to rely on government handouts to survive; they

Starting my college career in the fall of 2013 I knew I wanted to make a career out of helping people. My compassionate nature and love for people empowered me to find my calling. From education to business to social work I explored a wide variety of options; however, I never felt entirely content in the fields I was studying. In the summer of 2015, I had my first child, and my world changed forever. I wanted to enhance my life as well as my child and spouse's lives, so I knew I needed to choose a secure career, and I desired to achieve that in a timely manner. Because of my love of science I started exploring two year programs in the field of health care science. Dentistry stood out to me among the wide array of programs because it allowed

Throughout high school, I started to explore other pathways and passions and began to think about pursuing something in the medical or therapy field. During a gap year spent in Uganda after my senior year of high school, I volunteered at a babies home where I decided that I wanted to pursue physical therapy as a career. It was so amazing to see the difference that just 15 minutes of daily therapy made in these young children. I watched as an 18 month old went from not being able to hold his own head up to sitting up straight and tall. I watched as kids were no longer bound by the physical shortcomings of their bodies and they were able to thrive. This is what I wanted to do with my life. Physical therapy is a career that perfectly combines my aptitude for science and critical thinking, my compassion and people skills, and makes a huge difference in

Being able to pursue a career or job that you find passion in is a beautiful thing. We as individuals in modern society have the ability to choose whatever we want to be in life. As a society, we are okay with individuals going for careers as long as they “fall in line” with their gender. Usually, men go for jobs where they are able to show their masculinity, strength, or love for automobiles. For example, if a man pursues a job in the automobile, constructions, or sports then everything is okay with the world. If a woman pursues a job that mostly women go for such as a nanny, teacher, or hairstylist then that is okay because we want our women to have feminine or nurturing jobs. When a man or a women choose to go for a job that does not pertain to their gender things can get pretty ugly. Gender Discrimination means “discrimination based on a person 's gender or sex, which more often affects girls and women. Because of gender discrimination, girls and women do not have the same opportunities as boys and men for education, meaningful careers, & political influence” (dictionary.com). Even though women may experience gender discrimination more than men, men also fall victim to this sort of discrimination. Discrimination is the biggest problems people experience in the workplace or when they are trying to get a job that does not fit for their gender. There are several ways receiving gender discrimination that happen frequently in the day to day lives like giving a

It has been 10 years passed since last time I entered in college as a freshman, and now, at the end of 2017, I decide to go back to college for pursuing a new major and reaching a new objective of career path. All of these will start from Fullerton College.