Choosing a Career Essay

College students often take in to consideration many different reasons for choosing their major. Making a major selection based on a combination of factors is expected and is a good idea. On the other hand, choosing a college major based solely on one criteria can lead to frustration and disappointment in the long run. Selecting a major based on high salary is a common decision students make, instead of factoring their skills and interest. It’s difficult to succeed in a field if the student…

The results of the Jung Typology Test identifies my personality type as being ISTJ. These letters stand for Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging. The percentage I received for each of the letters ISTJ were (I) 12%, (S) 6%, (T) 1%, and (J) 16%. After reading the explanations of these traits, I tend to see my personality described by some and not by others. You could not really say it “hit the nail on the head”. This personality type is described as having a keen sense of right and wrong,…

“Students who are pressured to be number one live in between dreams and reality” (ibighit, 2013). The song I chose is titled, “N.O,” sung by South Korean hip-hop group, BTS. In both the music video and in the lyrics for N.O, BTS showcase how they want youth to overthrow goals that others have set for them, and start to find their own happiness. Hence the lyrics, “Everybody say NO! It can’t be any later. Don’t be trapped in someone else’s dream” (ibighit, 2013). The music video shows the…

Jacoby discusses an unreasoning belief in young girls that math and sciences are "masculine" subjects. She states that an adolescence girl’s fear of choosing science and math in high school that makes them have "unfeminine braininess" to boys. Jacoby brings up a recorded incident: “in early schooling, some boys, experience this syndrome a form of panic, akin to a phobia, at any task of involving with…

some financial trouble, or cannot find a decent job to sustain them economically. I do not want to go through life always in a constant financial battle. I am choosing to attend college because I want to further my education past the high school graduate level, gain a greater level of responsibility, and to build a foundation for a future career. By furthering education, I am pursuing the goal of working in a profession that will allow me to help others while providing a secure future for…

Therefore these views impacting upon the job choices men make when choosing a career path, although the males choosing the childcare/education career require a strong mind and focus on becoming a teacher in order to be successful (Smedley, 2007), however the profession does not focus on male or female practitioners but to whether the person is a good teacher to meet childrens needs (Sak, Sahin and Sahin, 2012) but where did all of these views arise, why so many negative views, is it down to…

Why Forensic Pathology? Many have disputed the importance of going to college, many say that college is a waste of time, many say that college is the only option for their families. High school students see college as the only way to be successful in their lives, while on the other hand people believe that there are too many students in college. They believe that most students that do not score above the 90th percentile are “too dumb” to go to college, that it is too stressful of an environment…

in the long run. I will agree that there are a few college debt horror stories out there, but those are in the minority. College is a bright financial commitment for everyone because multiple statistics prove that it pays for itself over time and choosing not to go could ultimately have you paying more than if you had gone. Statistics have shown that college graduates with bachelor's degrees earn “98 percent more an hour on…

I relied a lot on there opinions and beliefs, so I ended up choosing classes that they had taken. I took an art class, a Spanish class, and a computer programming class (one sibling is a artist, the other is a computer programmer and all of them took Spanish). I was so excited to finally be choosing things I enjoyed, or at least I thought I would enjoy. By mid-semester I was hating all three classes and not doing very well in them…

I have grown as a student in the area of College and Career Readiness because before school started, I didn't know what I wanted to be or what I wanted to pursue a career in. I knew that career I wanted to be in is law enforcement. There are multiple options ien law enforcement and I didn't know whether to be a police officer, a detective, or someone that majors in forensic. To help me figure out what was best for me, we had a project to do, called the Job Shadowing Project. This project was…