A Career In The Dental Field

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There is no doubt that goals are the key to success. This is a concept that my parents have heavily stressed while growing up, which is why setting goals is my source of motivation. I am constantly creating a set of daily objectives that I push to complete, knowing that they will all one day lead me to my ultimate purpose, a career in the dental field. For this reason, a current goal that I hope to achieve within the next 10 months is to visit many local clinics and job-shadow their hygienists. Why not just job-shadow one hygienist at one clinic? Well, one thing that I have noticed during my prior job-shadowing hours at a nearby family dentistry is that each visit varied. The reason why is because each time I visited the clinic a different

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