Personal Goals For College

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My childhood explains not only my personal goals for my education but also my professional life in the future. I’m Going to attend Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois the fall of 2016. This allows me to be able to come home, support my siblings and family when they need me. Getting a higher education, I aim to earn an internship as an Athletic Trainer or Sports Nutritionist through a sports team with Lewis. This will allow me to travel with the team for a goal that it will turn into a job opportunity. Two to three years into my professional life I hope I’ve raised enough money to live in a city almost like Beloit. Small but not too small, good diversity, and beautiful. Growing up, I have always been in two sports at a time. No matter …show more content…

Getting my major in Athletic Training and a minor in Nutrition/Deities, would help me become an Athletic Trainer and/or a Sports Nutritionist. I started to figure out that with difficult sports like hockey it is hard for a trainer to understand why we move how we do. Whether it is on or off the ice, it is like this for many other sports also. Coming from a difficult sport like hockey and playing multiple other sports. I understand a bit more were that athlete is coming from compared to other trainers who have never played that sport before. While I’m in college, I would like to earn an internship with either my school, local sport team athletic trainer, or nutritionist. In Order to do this, I will stay on track with all my schooling and volunteer at a hospital. I will earn a job with the athletic trainer for my work study job. Doing this I will not only be helping out the community and school athletes but also learning more hands on. Reaching my goals and helping out my community in either of these fields would not only help me learn even more, but it would help me become more …show more content…

Upon earning an internship in college that should either help me get a better job or assist me to earn one at a company. In my Future career, I would like to be with a big team or company. Spending time with athletes and helping the injured will be the best feeling I could ever ask for. If I can not be a trainer, I would try to earn a job that is in my career field. If I am still working in the field that I would love and enjoy to be in, that would be okay by me. I know I will not stop working hard until I get the perfect career I am passionate

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