The Importance Of Career Choices

At a young age, most children have an unrealistic or maybe even impossible career goal. While working at a child care center I had the opportunity to hear some very imaginative four year-olds share their ideas on what they wanted to be when they grow up. I heard everything from baseball player, to ballerina, to wrestler, to a chicken. Odds are, none of these children will become what they said, epically the chicken. However, these children have a better idea of their future than I do. For the past year I have had my mind set on law school, but since beginning my freshman year of college my view the future is not as clear as it used to be. I have a big heart for children, but I also believe that I would be very successful in the field of business. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the decision I make today will affect the rest of my life. Over the past few months I have been wavering …show more content…
I had only taken career quizzes in high school, but never for myself. Now that I have done this project, I take career quizzes all the time in search for ideas for my future. I have learned that there are more factors that go into a career choice than just money, passion for the career, and more money. This project was definitely a challenge for me. It highlighted something I have been ignoring for months. The transition from high school to college has not been an easy one, so I guess I thought that ignoring the fact that I had to make a career choice would make it go away. Change has never been easy for me. I have been in one building from Pre-K to 12th Grade. I have only had one basketball coach from middle school to high school. My teachers never changed all four years of high school. So now that everything is making a full 360, it is hard for me to wrap my head around it all. This project has really made an impact on my career choice. Now I will search more on my future, and focus less on my