When people are younger everyone always ask what do you want to be when you are older? Of course when it is children everyone is filled with wonder about their answer whether it’s a model, astronaut, race car driver, etc. Now that I’m older it’s expected for me to know exactly what to do with my life and how to do it. I realized very soon that I sometimes can be an indecisive person when it comes to life-long decisions. This being a huge decision in one’s life you could only imagine how many times I’ve changed my idea on what to go to school for. Although, changing my mind become a norm, I eventually decided a degree in business/marketing is the right path for me. What are my career and educational goals, what will my job would be like, and …show more content…
Being an active member of my DECA organization in high school I saw a new side of the business world that I didn’t know existed. Being forever grateful for how much this organization has influenced my life I wanted to give back and get the word out to other students how amazing this club is. Becoming my DECA chapter’s secretary has allowed me to love DECA more than I thought was imaginable. Thinking becoming the secretary I would be helping DECA more than myself was naive of me, following this action I realized how much I like being a leader and having huge influences on an organization empowers me to work harder. Currently working at a Boutique I get to see a lot of “behind the scene” situations that my boss has to deal with. I have seen her stress and struggle about decisions and situations dealing with the boutique. But I’ve also gotten the opportunity to learn with her about some of the dos and don’ts with a small business, learning how to deal with certain situations that I wouldn’t be able to learn by reading a book in school, and how to avoid little mistakes that I may have made if I didn’t work at the boutique now. Both of these factors contributed significantly in my decision to getting a degree in business/marketing more than I could
From the time a child enters preschool, teachers begin asking a common question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” That dreaded query has always haunted me, mostly because the way it was redundantly asked put a ton of pressure on me and my peers. The question was like a rusty nail being hammered into our head’s by society. I continuously had the cliché answers of becoming a doctor, teacher, or a police officer, but with serious reservations. After years of not having a clue, I started to think about what I like to do after the stresses of work and school were gone at the end of the day.
Working as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) one holds the reasonability of other lives in their arms. The life of a typical CNA is characterized by time spent helping others with daily activities such as showering, brushing their teeth, getting dressed and so many other tasks. Becoming a CNA has shaped my life in ways I never would have thought to be possible.
As a senior I am obviously aware that my journey through school is coming to an end. At this point in my life, I have a slight idea about what I want to do in the future; however, I still don’t know if that’s where I want to go and I won’t ever know until I learn more about it. Some people may see my lack of permanent direction as an indication of someone who is lost. Nonetheless, I see this as an exhilarating experience where I am constantly discovering new things about myself. When this topic came
Any expert was once a beginner! Everyone can become an professional in their wanted field no matter what. Being an expert takes hard work and determination! Those are the two keys success at being skilled in your wanted field.
I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do with my life. I could do something medical, in which I will need a degree. Or I could do something different, but I currently have no idea. I definitely see both the benefits and drawbacks of college, and I think it would be wise to attend, but if I don’t need the education, then I’m not going to spend my time and money delaying my
My friends, teachers and family all seem to envision the same future for me and it comes paired with high expectations. They all want me to pursue various high paying jobs that require intense commitment and enduring more long years of schooling. I understand that everyone’s opinions are only told with intentions of seeing me reach my full potential, but occasionally it would be easier people didn’t have such high hopes. At present, I am not even entirely sure what I want to become in life. I have never considered that my passion may lay in something that does not require a university education because of the expectations set for me by others and myself. The thought that twelve years of working hard to finish assignments, studying to do well on exams and maintaining marks will result in even more grueling work is undesirable. I often feel like my conscience needs a mental holiday. More tempting thoughts become my desire to to travel around the world and experience different cultures, or envisioning a future where I have a job with low education requirements so that I may actually be able to live my life. However, people always tells me that it would be a shame to let all of my hard work go to waste. Even though there is these easier more comfortable solutions to my problems, I know I must take responsibility and at least attempt to live my full potential. I
I have known from an early age that I’ve wanted to become a doctor. Helping people has always been a passion of mine. When I was younger, I wanted to be a veterinarian. However, after working with young children I have found that I love working with them, and have a connection with children. Currently, I am interested in becoming either a neonatologist or a general pediatrician so I can continue to work with young children.
If I had a nickel for everytime an adult asked me what I wanted to do for the rest of my life; needless to say I would not be worried about a thing. Teens tend to get easily frustrated with this question, but we never realize the importance of it. The truth is, we too ask ourselves this question and for whatever reason, maybe it's our youth or our short attention spans, we can not even give ourselves an answer. A couple years ago, I was this such teen. I was backed into a corner; my grandparents had just asked me this infamous question. For once, I actually thought about it and I spouted out, "Well, Pop Pop... Mamaw, I am going to be a poltician." I was the cause for many "jaw-droppings" that day, but I felt too excited to worry with that. I finally knew what I wanted to be, and oh, how I wanted to be a poltician so badly. For a teen, I guess it is rather odd that I chose this career, but there are many reasons that transformed a twelve year old, who still stubbornly believed in leprechauns, into the passionate young woman, whom I know today.
When you are younger people always ask what do you want to be when you are older? Of course when you are young everyone is filled with wonder about your answer, whether it’s a model, astronaut, race car driver, etc. Now that I’m older it’s expected for me to know exactly what to do with my life and how to do it. I realized very soon that I sometimes can be an indecisive person when it comes to life long decisions, this being a huge decision in one’s life you could only imagine how many times I’ve changed my idea on what to go to school for. Although, changing my mind become a norm, I eventually decided a degree in business/marketing is the right path for me. In this paper
Thinking back at it, that is a huge weight on someone’s shoulders. You are asking a young teenager what they want to do with their life. That’s the biggest question you can ask someone, but yet we all were asked this numerous times, and not everybody is always prepared to even think about the rest of their life at that age. Coming into college as a determined freshman, one “thinks” they know exactly what they want to do with the rest of their whole life. Now this may be the case for some but definitely not all.
For so many years I’ve asked myself the question, “what are you going to do with your life?” For a period of time I struggled with this question. Today, I sit staring at my computer, confronting myself, asking my subconscious “what do I want to do for the rest of my life?” Have I finally found the answer I 've been looking for, or am I under the false assumption that this is the right path for me. This semester has been the ultimate opportunity to explore my questions, doubt, issues, and concerns. I feel that by the end of this paper I will have answered all these questions, and will have made the best decision for my future.
Both of my parents are teachers, so growing up there was one thing that I knew for sure: I was not going to follow in their footsteps. I had dreams of being a multitude of other things - a doctor, a producer, a public relations consultant, even, for a short time, the president of the United States. When I got to college, this “anything but a teacher” hope for my future led me to get a degree in communication, with the hopes of working in marketing or public relations. After graduating, I got a marketing job with an up-and-coming engineering firm, but it didn’t make me happy. I didn’t feel like I was doing anything of substance; I felt that, in the end, my work didn’t really have an impact. It took
Herbert A. Simon said, “The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.” As we are about to graduate and go on to choose not just jobs, but careers, we need to commit to a decision. I have always been thinking of what I wanted to be since I could talk, whether it’s an actress, writer, teacher, or doctor.
From the moment we are born, others wonder what we will grow to be. Will we be a lawyer, a doctor, a teacher? The list of careers is endless. As time passes and as we grow, we ourselves begin to wonder what we will be. Will we be a orthodontist, like Dad? A veterinarian, like Mom? Or will we join the Navy, like Grandpa Doug did? As soon as we begin our schooling, it one main question is commonly asked by both parents, teachers, and peers alike: what do we want to be when we grow up? Some believe that asking these questions and preparing from an early age for a career that we will hopefully continue for the rest of our adult lives is good, that it helps prepare us better and helps us determine early on what our interests are. Other disagree that starting so early in college and career preparation is a good thing, that it may cause students later on in their education to suffer from “burn-out”. The question is, which side is correct? In my opinion, it’s a bit of both: while preparing early and being ready for the next step--college--after being handed our diplomas is important, it can also have a bad result, as far as some students are concerned.
As an undergrad student in her third year of school, I get asked a lot what I want to do with my future. And if I do not answer it with enough insight or evidence that I know what I am doing, then I feel like I look like a complete idiot to most. What I tell people is that I have a hunger for counseling; I want to be able to give people meaningful advice on their daily lives, their personal problems, and their personal thoughts. What is important to me is that I learn to be personable to everyone around me. I want to be expressively honest, yet a constructive influence on my clients, my friends, and my family’s life.