The person I am today has definitely been molded by the people around me. I am a spitting image of my mother and father and their two personalities. I have gained beliefs, strengths, challenges, values and goals from those I was raised with. There are many good things about myself, and also many things that need improvement. I’m anxious to see how myself critique will change over the years in the social work practice. I believe I will change in many different ways, and experience many eye opening challenges. Up until this point I have many strengths, challenges, personality features, interests, values and goals that have been formed in my past twenty years. I think a good place to always start is with ones’ strengths. I am good at communicating
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Most of my goals have formed since I was 17. I always wanted a profession where I would be enabling those to fulfill their maximum potential. I like to fix things and make things work again. My goals of a “human doing” are go graduate, go onto graduate school, find a job, travel and backpack in the mountains, marry my high school sweetheart whom I’ve been dating for six years, and to maybe start a family some day. My interests in the social work profession include medical social work, elderly, hospice, and school social work. I think my biggest goal is to become a medical social worker. It is unfortunate how many people have a negative outlook on social work, and I want to change that. My goals of being a “human being” are to live in the present moment. I have struggled with this concept for so long. I try to remind myself of it daily. I often dream and imagine what it will be like in four years when I am a graduate and attending college will be over. I wish days away and work toward that end goal. I want to change how I live daily as one of my goals. There are so many good things in each day for them to be wished away. I also want to practice my critical thinking skills. My father is such a fixer and critical thinker that I learned it from him, but my thinking still needs to be improved, he has all of the wisdom and I am still
Most of my goals have formed since I was 17. I always wanted a profession where I would be enabling those to fulfill their maximum potential. I like to fix things and make things work again. My goals of a “human doing” are go graduate, go onto graduate school, find a job, travel and backpack in the mountains, marry my high school sweetheart whom I’ve been dating for six years, and to maybe start a family some day. My interests in the social work profession include medical social work, elderly, hospice, and school social work. I think my biggest goal is to become a medical social worker. It is unfortunate how many people have a negative outlook on social work, and I want to change that. My goals of being a “human being” are to live in the present moment. I have struggled with this concept for so long. I try to remind myself of it daily. I often dream and imagine what it will be like in four years when I am a graduate and attending college will be over. I wish days away and work toward that end goal. I want to change how I live daily as one of my goals. There are so many good things in each day for them to be wished away. I also want to practice my critical thinking skills. My father is such a fixer and critical thinker that I learned it from him, but my thinking still needs to be improved, he has all of the wisdom and I am still