Happiness is a feeling that most people experience at some point in their life. Sometimes, people coincidentally achieve happiness and don’t have to do anything different to get that feeling. Other times, people may have to change something about their life in order to achieve it. In my life, I am part of the group that has to change something in order to be happy. When I think of happiness, I think of it as an outcome of a combination of hard work, progress, and achievement. My lifelong dream is achievable because I am willing to adjust my attitude about events that I cannot control in order to achieve happiness. My lifelong dream is to become a Clinical Lab Technician and work in a hospital. I have always had the dream work in a hospital
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After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Lab Science/Technician, I then can take the national certification exam to become certified to work in the laboratory at hospitals as an official medical laboratory scientist to help diagnose patients (Boyle). Once I am certified and looking for a job, I will have an easy time finding a job because of the steady growth of this field (Boyle). Every hospital needs lab technicians to help diagnose patients, and there are hospitals located everywhere, so the location of a job would not be an issue. I feel that this would be a big plus, not just for this job, but for any job in general. Another big plus is that the average salary a person earns as a Clinical Lab technician is between $45,000 and $50,000 a year (Booker). These characteristics of being a Clinical Lab Technician will help me achieve not only career-related goals, but also family and lifestyle goals. The flexibility of where I can work in this job will allow me to live wherever I decide to live in the future without many (if not any) compromises on location. When it comes to family goals, the annual salary I earn, I will be able to afford a large house in a beautiful neighborhood, be able to raise my future kids, and allow them to do the activities they want …show more content…
She explained to me that one of the biggest challenges of this job is miscommunication caused by unawareness of certain medical terms and what they mean. A good example of that is when a doctor orders a certain test, and the lab techs do the test the way they understood how the doctor wanted it when really the doctor wanted a different one in the first place (Scianna). Without fully being in their exact situation, I can say from my own experiences, how challenging it is to communicate when not everyone knows exactly what other people and I are talking about. One big idea that she stressed to me is that when I get to college, or even after I graduate college is to be a generalist. What she means by this is that when I am going to school or applying for a job, know and/or study all the different areas in the lab instead of just specializing in one area (Scianna). Naomi says that if she was interviewing two potential job candidates, one that specializes in one area, and the other that knows everything, she would pick the one that knows everything. I will take her advice 100%, because it sounds like the best route to success, and I was thinking about doing that
After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Lab Science/Technician, I then can take the national certification exam to become certified to work in the laboratory at hospitals as an official medical laboratory scientist to help diagnose patients (Boyle). Once I am certified and looking for a job, I will have an easy time finding a job because of the steady growth of this field (Boyle). Every hospital needs lab technicians to help diagnose patients, and there are hospitals located everywhere, so the location of a job would not be an issue. I feel that this would be a big plus, not just for this job, but for any job in general. Another big plus is that the average salary a person earns as a Clinical Lab technician is between $45,000 and $50,000 a year (Booker). These characteristics of being a Clinical Lab Technician will help me achieve not only career-related goals, but also family and lifestyle goals. The flexibility of where I can work in this job will allow me to live wherever I decide to live in the future without many (if not any) compromises on location. When it comes to family goals, the annual salary I earn, I will be able to afford a large house in a beautiful neighborhood, be able to raise my future kids, and allow them to do the activities they want …show more content…
She explained to me that one of the biggest challenges of this job is miscommunication caused by unawareness of certain medical terms and what they mean. A good example of that is when a doctor orders a certain test, and the lab techs do the test the way they understood how the doctor wanted it when really the doctor wanted a different one in the first place (Scianna). Without fully being in their exact situation, I can say from my own experiences, how challenging it is to communicate when not everyone knows exactly what other people and I are talking about. One big idea that she stressed to me is that when I get to college, or even after I graduate college is to be a generalist. What she means by this is that when I am going to school or applying for a job, know and/or study all the different areas in the lab instead of just specializing in one area (Scianna). Naomi says that if she was interviewing two potential job candidates, one that specializes in one area, and the other that knows everything, she would pick the one that knows everything. I will take her advice 100%, because it sounds like the best route to success, and I was thinking about doing that