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Project 2 Introduction Like many other college freshmen, I’m not completely sure about what would be a good fit for my future career. In order to improve my understanding of myself and what I crave from life, I took the TypeFocus assessment. Going into this assessment, I wanted to uncover what kind of careers would mesh well with my personality, interests, and values so that I could adjust my major accordingly while I still have the opportunity. I am currently planning on pursuing a career in the social sciences and, although I’m fairly confident in this decision, I am unsure about whether I would like to research, conduct experiments, counsel others, etc. In this report I will explain the steps I took to understand more about myself, the
results I received, how I’ve interpreted my results, and in what way this overall experience has changed my outlook on my future career prospects.
When we were little, we thought the word “Career” was not a big deal, but as a senior in high school the word has become our reality as we start to finish our last semester. The question we’ve been asked all these years was what do you want to be when you grow up? But our answer was simple; we don’t want to grow up. As an innocent kid it seemed like the time would never come, but it has. It’s time to get serious and really ponder on this question. My mind has wondered for so long on what my career would be. We all wanted to be an astronaut, but I never liked space or the fact of not having any gravity. What if I get lost in the universe? Maybe I’ll be a firefighter, but I never was interested. Well how about a cop? That’s it, a police woman. I grew up watching crime movies and cop shows but knew that that was never reality. I started getting interested in court cases and the mind of a serial killer. Why do they do it, was always my question. I searched for more answers and found that the behavior plays an important role. That’s when I decided I wanted to become an FBI profiler for the Behavior Analysis Unit (BAU).
I do agree with the results to an extent, I say this because I personally think I fit exceptionally well into the interests of conventional and investigative. I enjoy science and mathematics very much in school, and they have always been my favorite classes to take. The only thing that I do not know entirely about is as I mentioned above about being social. I think as I grow older, and find myself more it will become more apparent or not if I am a social person. The careers that caught my interest while looking over my results were: medical service, healthcare, mathematics, science, and taxes/accounting. These fit well into what I like to do, as well as being something I take high interest in for college. Another one that came up was teaching and education. It is something that I have looked into but have not decided if that is the route I would like to go into. Teaching is something that I do enjoy to do, especially with younger children since I have a very young sister and the patience for it. One thing that I have not made up my mind about is if it is something that I want to do the rest of my life. It is something that I will be looking into since it can be a very rewarding
Who I think I am? I’m not exactly sure who I think I am or how to describe who I think I am. I tend to act differently around certain people. Constantly changing to try to seek approval. Constantly in fear of accidentally doing something wrong; that I might say something wrong and all my friends will abandon me or leave me for someone better. I think this fear came from when my best friend was taken from me. I had known her since preschool, but she had met another girl and she stopped talking to me completely. I’m in constant fear that this will happen to me again, so I struggle to be accepted. I don’t want to be forgotten again.
In class, I was giving the assignment to reflect my thoughts about the social work profession and what I like to pursed in the future. I knew since I was young that I wanted a career where I could help people who were in need or do not have a voice to speak up. I wanted a career that helped change peoples’ lives and made me feel like I was making a differences in someone’s life. A career that I got to wake up every day that made me feel like I was changing the world. However, I did not know what major to consider. So, my senior year in high school, I had the opportunity to get into a program called Medical Topics. Through this program, I had the opportunity to shadow nurses, doctors, and other people in the hospital. I got to understand and
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Deciding to be a social worker was not always a career path I initially wanted to choose. I had trouble narrowing down which career I wanted to pursue, because knowing I would be dedicated to one specific job for the rest of my life terrified me, and I needed to make the right choice. As years passed, people around me were asking what I wanted to major in and I would shyly answer them, “I am not sure.” Whenever I said that, I felt bad and uncomfortable. I knew it is normal for many people to be uncertain of which career they want to pursue, but I felt pressured to have an actual answer. It was not until I took several personality quizzes and discovered more about myself, which made it easier to narrow down my choices and I began taking interest in social work. One of the personality quizzes I took was The Myers Brigg Type Indicator, and my result was being an INFJ- Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, and
My envisioned major is Accounting with a minor of Human Resources. According to the Type Focus Assessment I should focus on teaching, but only technical subjects. I have to disagree with this part of it. I have no desire to teach. I am not saying I would never teach, but I would have to look into it a little more to see what it entails and how I feel about going into something like that. It also stated I would be good in the military, banking and police work. I do have to say these results did intrigue me a bit. I do seem to be interested in the line of police work, but more on the investigative and forensic side (after the fact). It’s actually funny because I am a little addicted the ID channel. I am constantly watching different kinds of
I believe my way of writing is a mix of free style writing with a slight structured sense while expressing one thought onto paper. I would go about finding a main topic that I would like to write about and then layout the foundation of how I want the writing to form; this helps me envision my writing coming to life. This type of method is something I always do in order ensure I don’t lose my thoughts that I have previously came up with to go along with it. Over time I’ve learned that I wrote in the way I was thought in high school. This was an extremely strict way that doesn’t show the other forms of writing. This led to not me discovering my form of writing for a while. My train form of writing has changed from a strict concrete manner of
The question is “Does your strengths and interests fit your career?” I think that every single characteristic or interest listed here would be more of a job in social working, counseling, or something along those lines. I feel that my major and future career is something that only maybe one or two interest and strengths would actually fit into my profile. So I’m thinking that I might have to rethink my major to make sure it is a good idea and something that I’m going to willing to be able to do for my future success and goals that I want to achieve.
After completing the assessment exercise I have been able to carefully my personality. The exercise consisted of an evaluation of four areas: Locus of Control, Personality Type, Stress Reactions, and Learning Styles.
Have you ever felt out of place? Different than how you’re supposed to feel? I can’t answer this for you, but I have. Once in middle school, the other in high school, and when I found out what the definition of normal really means to people. I always felt that something was out of place. The way people acted towards one another, and the labels we use to brand ourselves with. We’re stranded and cheated by society today on being taught the way they want to teach us. You might have noticed this yourself, and learned from it. Yes, we’re different from one another, so this is how I learned.
Once in the sixth grade the year was coming to an end and all the top people that did good in english and literature were getting letters so get into spanish for seventh and eighth grade and i waited and waited and never got an invite to be put into that class. I was so frustrated and confused because I didn't understand why i dint get into that class and i felt like the school thought i was stupid and could get into the class i was really angry and resented school for awhile because I knew my potential, and I worked hard my whole sixth grade year in all of my classes to get A’s which i did and still didn't get into Spanish. What I should have done instead of getting angry and resenting the school and thinking i was stupide was confront the
Having an immense amount of weight on my back while I was trying to get to my new home wasn’t a very good motivation. In fact, I wanted to drop my pack and die every three steps. It didn’t matter how long I had been at Second Nature and how much I had become fond of the place, I hated hiking with crippling weight. The reality of the situation, however, was that we simply could not stop. No matter how much it hurt, we had to keep moving, or else we wouldn’t make it to camp where there would be a source of water. It wasn’t just the hiking that was hard either. Everything I did out there was back breaking and there were so many moments that I just wanted to give up again and again. Yet, I never did.
My goals were to eat better, and by better, I meant three times a day and sleep more because I was not getting a full night’s rest. I choose these goals because they supported my goal to lose weight. My mom always told me that you should eat regular and have sleep to lose weight. I was afraid to say lose weight because I think it is embarrassing and since I am very aware of my weight. This topic has been heavy on my mind for some time now, I have always had low confident in myself and since my sister has a small curving figure that I am jealous of.
On the Myers-Briggs personality inventory, my type is ISTJ. According to various Internet sources, good career choices for me include Computer Programming, Engineering, Health Careers, Proofreading, Efficiency Expert, and Accounting.