My first few weeks attending Johnson County Community College I had horrible perceptions about the place. I perceived everyone who was not at a four-year school, tailgating at football games and studying to become a doctor or lawyer was a failure. However, the weeks turned into months and my mind slowly changed. My outlook on education and finding a career transformed.
There was life, a perfectly good life, outside of the “normal” path through high school, to a four- year, big, public, university and into a corporate job. Turns out about 70 percent of people do not have a college degree. I put faces to these statistics by visiting with students at JCCC. The students I conversed with were all interesting and all desired to partake in different things. Some wanted to work on the railroad, a fair amount aspired to fix cars, others were going to become graphic designers, some were there to become …show more content…
I enrolled in a wide variety of classes. I enjoy working outside, so I took an architecture class. I love history, “maybe I could major in history” I thought to myself, I enrolled in History of the American West. I always loved the challenge of selling things; I enrolled in a marketing class. I read a large variety of articles about different careers, carpentry, welding, engineering, becoming a lawyer, a physical therapist and so on. I enjoyed the classes but I still could not decide. I then realized that although I am interested in those things careers they don’t consume by thoughts and free time. I don’t read books about architecture, watch sports medicine shows, or listen to podcasts about history. I read books like “0 to 1” by Peter Thiel, listen to investing podcasts, and watch Shark Tank. Ironically, after saying I was going to study business all my life (just because it sounded good), going to JCCC and realizing that there are many more career options than what you are told about in high school, I came to the conclusion that business in my
There was life, a perfectly good life, outside of the “normal” path through high school, to a four- year, big, public, university and into a corporate job. Turns out about 70 percent of people do not have a college degree. I put faces to these statistics by visiting with students at JCCC. The students I conversed with were all interesting and all desired to partake in different things. Some wanted to work on the railroad, a fair amount aspired to fix cars, others were going to become graphic designers, some were there to become …show more content…
I enrolled in a wide variety of classes. I enjoy working outside, so I took an architecture class. I love history, “maybe I could major in history” I thought to myself, I enrolled in History of the American West. I always loved the challenge of selling things; I enrolled in a marketing class. I read a large variety of articles about different careers, carpentry, welding, engineering, becoming a lawyer, a physical therapist and so on. I enjoyed the classes but I still could not decide. I then realized that although I am interested in those things careers they don’t consume by thoughts and free time. I don’t read books about architecture, watch sports medicine shows, or listen to podcasts about history. I read books like “0 to 1” by Peter Thiel, listen to investing podcasts, and watch Shark Tank. Ironically, after saying I was going to study business all my life (just because it sounded good), going to JCCC and realizing that there are many more career options than what you are told about in high school, I came to the conclusion that business in my