My Current Career Aspiration For Athletic Training

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My current career aspiration is to be an athletic trainer at a clinical outpatient facility associated with a hospital or rehabilitative center. Based off information from the NATA website, clinical outpatient practices’ websites, and informal observations it seems that those athletic trainers who work in this setting have set hours working at the facility or high schools but also cover games and events as needed during afternoons, evening and weekends. One short term goal that would help me get closer to success is to spend at least ten hours observing athletic trainers who have a job similar to my desired position through KPE 100 observations or on my own prior to the end of the school year. A second short term goal would be to spend

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