I have been in the Navy for about three years now, before I was in the navy I worked at a community center as a lifeguard and swim instructor. I worked full time and went to high school, my motivation for getting my degree is I want to get my degree in business management so one day I can own my own bakery. I came to the goal of owning my own shop from being in the military actually, my I love baking and I love to decorate sweets as well. My younger brother also wants to own his own bakery so even if I don't ever open my own shop I would love to be able to help him on the business side of his shop. I' am passionate about a lot if things, mostly I am a dedicated swimmer and baker, I love to challenge myself and those around me. I am very dedicated to my schooling and when I put my mind to it I …show more content…
get things done. My professional and personal goals are to obtain this degree while continuing my contract with the navy and one day become a naval officer. Once i have this degree it will be easier to become an officer as well as work towards my own shop. Prior to deciding to go back to school I had just wanted to do the navy thing and go from there but I got married and had two kids. So while i am on my maternity leave i decided to go to school. Once i go back to work I plan to work during the day while the kids are at daycare and during my lunch break and at night when the kids are in bed I plan to study. The weekends I plan to study at least 2-3 hours then.
My strengths as a learner are I'm quick to pick up new things however I am bad at math. In the past when I needed help with math I asked my dad for help, however when I was at school I stayed late and got one on one help from my teachers. i asked a lot of questions and took great notes. While enrolled here at Colorado State University Global Campus if I need help I can access the Online tutoring help and I can email the teachers and get help from them. I have a great support system, my mom and dad are always a phone call away if ii need help, they are both extremely happy that I have chosen to go back to school. My husband is my support and encouragement while I'm at school or studying. It is important to my family that I succeed in school so I am able to get a great job outside of the military, and its important to me that I succeed in school. As for studying I study everyday, mostly at night when my kids are sleeping. Or I can study during my lunch break. I can study everyday, my study area is in my living room and dining room. My shop is a quiet place to work as well. I'm able too commit at least 2-4 hours a day to
school. I mentioned at the beginning that I used to be a lifeguard, well one night me and two other people were on duty. Two teenage boys came into the pool area and were messing around one of the guys I was on duty with told the kids to not run and to just swim, but they didn't listen. Well they didn't listen and one of the kids fell and hit the back of his neck on the side of the pool and he passed out. But I got to the kid and pulled him out of the water and started going through the first aid procedures. One other guy called 911 and the other one helped me get the kid on the backboard and then EMS arrived and took him to the hospital. It was an intense situation, however I had a great support team to help me out when it was needed.
I am Nursing major and with that degree to become a Nurse Practitioner who specializes in the Cardiovascular System to reduce the rate of heart diease in America. I am a hardworking individual and I take my academics very seriously. I understand that I am at school for a purpose and know my purpose is to further my education. I am just trying to make it. My parents always told me growing up “ In order to get something you never had that I will have to do things I have never done.” No one prepared me for college, because I am a first generation college student. In addition to being a first generation college student ; I am also a first generation high school graduate. I use my my parents trials and tribulations as my motivation, because I want
In 2012 nearly 205,000 people were employed as a physical therapist in the United States. The average salary of a physical therapist in 2012 was $79,860 per year. The number of jobs is estimated to grow 36% from 2012-2022. This job of physical therapy involves many and very important tasks to fulfill the needs of their patients. It requires many different educational requirements and you must have strong people skills.
Blue collar work refers to work that involves manual labor. They are typically working class. They also usually earn hourly wages. These jobs can be unskilled or skilled. The difference between unskilled labor and skilled labor is that unskilled did not require that its workers be specially trained or have to learn a special skill. Meanwhile, skilled labor requires its workers to have a skill or special training in order to be able to perform that specified work.
I was not ready, focused, or dedicated and as a result it reflected in my poor grades. This left me feeling like a failure, and my confidence was low in my abilities. It would take years before I would I feel confident enough in my abilities to return to college. As years passed I became focused, goal oriented, confident, and realized the path I wanted to pursue. It was a constant gnawing feeling to return to college. Once I felt confident in my abilities to succeed in college, I enrolled. As a result my grades improved to a 3.27 GPA. My academic strengths are my ability to focus, endure, prioritize and study. My deficiencies would be time management. I have set aside a time frame for study time this is what helped me to succeed in my undergrad program.
that I wanted to pursue a career in the medical field but I was not sure
The implementation of career interventions is an important process that helps students to choose the career path that best suits their needs, goals, and desires. Unfortunately, Niles and Harris-Bowlsbey (2013) state that many students are not very enthusiastic about participating in career intervention programs (p.3). It is imperative that schools incorporate career intervention into their comprehensive counseling program because it is an essential component of helping students to be successful. Counselors must also be knowledgeable about the career intervention process and specific methods of career counseling to best meet the needs of all students. According to Akos, Niles, Miller, and Erford (2011), the ASCA identifies the three areas that must be included in a comprehensive counseling program are academic, career, and personal/social (p.203). The career intervention component accounts for a third of the counselor’s responsibilities, thus
No chances of that in the military, no matter how badly my family wants me to go. So my own choices is college or working straight out of high school. Picture this, I wasn 't too bad of a student but still have pretty awful grades. The only curricular activities I ever tried doing was Theater. My only decent subjects was Art and Reading. Could I even get into a college? I wondered and decided the only way to make a living was working out of high school. Like what my mother did. But living off the jobs from that I 've found is impossible. I 've took a year off after high school to decide what I wanted. I 've became a apprentice of a artist in New Orleans to help start my career while on my break. He taught me a lot about how to run your own business and gain customers. He greatly influenced my decision on college. Question is this. How to get in and pay for
This particular question is a question that I believe I have thought about a million times in my head. Before enrolling and attending a University, one of my main worries was being able to go for a degree that will allow me to step up and have more advantages when dealing with different career opportunities. Now that I have chosen a career field now I look on how I can go about improving my career searches as well as different opportunities. Being a military veteran and being able to experience the military life for the past 4 years, one thing that I can say is that the job I signed up for wasn’t really the job that I should have chosen the day of my enlistment. The day I enlisted, I decided to become an Avenger Crewmember which dealt with working with missels taking down unwanted aircrafts from the air. Before joining the military I was a security guard that really didn’t pay as much leading me to live paycheck by paycheck. At the time thinking as a security guard I wanted to try something new and only thought about how cool it is to be doing such a thing but really didn’t realize how it didn’t really benefit me if I decided to get out one day.
I have done serval projects on my own and have the ablity to complete them with general ease. I teach myself a lot of skills such as computer programing circuits and some basic fabrication when I do my projects. I have also worked in several group projects and have been a successful leader. In contrast my weaknesses include bad study habbits, trouble focusing, and not being as motivated as I'd like to be. I can proform well on tests if I am well propared I am not always.
All college students should partake in career exploration project because it gives structure and direction. The result from an assessment identifies and prioritizes which careers will best suit an individual person or student. It does not necessarily mean they have to pick that particular job or career; it gives them more chooses to choose from. Career exploration is a life long journey that is emotionally, physically and mentally stress full. I say lifelong because as time goes on so does an individual’s views, abilities and skills. Career exploration is very helpful to a career, because it improves a person's ability to become informed of their interests, skills, values, abilities, aptitudes, weaknesses and strengths It helps in the guidance of career matters across the nation, job influence, growth, work hours opportunities to name a few. An individual needs to remember that when doing this career exploration project to keep in mind that money is only a temporary fix. In the beginning it may bring you joy and happiness but as time goes on it will not keep up personal enjoyment i...
My intelligence is one of my key traits. For my class I am ranked 39, and my G.P.A with a 3.6905. I always try to choose the best classes that are best for me and my career path, so I am able to prepare for the future. I knew when I finished high school that I was going to college. I take my school work very serious making sure everything is turn on time, checking over my homework and essays so when turn in it is at its maximum best, and having a schedule for when to study so I am prepare for the test and not overfilled with other school work. There are times where I may struggle, but these obstacles never stop me, even when time is
As a student, I believe that I have many strengths, but also some weaknesses that I need to work on. Personally, I think that I manage my time very well. I am very good at planning out when I will do assignments and how much time I will spend working on each of those assignment. Although sometimes I will plan too much for a certain amount of time and will not always be able to get it all done, so that is something I need to work on. Materialistically, my organization is not the best, but I am good at organizing my priorities and figuring out what I need to study for most, which leads into my study habits. My study habits are strong because I make sure that the time I am studying each day stays consistent, but there are times when I focus too much on a certain subject and then don’t pay attention to others that are also important, making me weak in those areas. Along with this, I think that my class work habits are pretty consistent, although there I times when I do get distracted. I don’t get distracted very often, so I usually take in information very well because I am good at paying attention.
As a child, have you ever been asked what do you want to be when you grow up? When I was little, all I ever wanted to do was open up my own dance company. I chose to study Business Administration because I love the feeling of being an in professional and sophisticated manner. I really feel as though choosing the business field was the best option I ever made for myself because I’m getting the opportunity to show many people out there how professional I can be and also the skills I have as a person.
My key strength is that I am mostly driven by knowledge and I constantly seek to improve my knowledge sometimes even at the expense of better earnings. Secondly I have managed to develop a strict time management habit that ensures that most of my time is spent doing productive things such as work and learning with intermitent breaks for exercising and other basic things. On the other hand I have a tendency of not finishing some courses that I start especially once I feel that I have acquired the skills that I was originally interested in. Also, I tend to have too many courses running at the same time and that impacts my ability to give enough time to each of the courses.
Do you ever wonder what life after work feels like? Let me take you into a journey of the lives of four people that I had the pleasure of interviewing. These four people share their life of life after work, what made them retire earlier than the retirement age of 75, what the pros and cons are, how they handle living expenses, and how they live their daily lives. Furthermore, I became very intrigued at what I found.