Thinking and discussing about our future and career path is a common topic that often occurs in any school-like setting, but can still be considered taboo to anyone who does not know what they would like to do with their lives, such as myself. The future is still quite broad and unknown, yet I am excited to discover what I will make myself capable of doing in order to thrive and enjoy my future. Although I do have an idea of what I would like to pursue, which is art, my results on the major and career assessment help in further convincing me that the art-field is meant to be the field most suitable for me although it does depict some exceptions. On my Kuder Career Interests Assessment, I received the code of S/AI, which indicates that I
Truck driving is a much needed career to help transport goods across the United States and other local areas. Commercial Truck Driving is the career I choose to uphold. Trucking is a way of transportation needed to keep business going. Trucking has been a part of my family for years so I fell in love with trucks now I won’t to drive my own. This career has a good background, career requirements, job positions, and a good reflection.
In 2012 nearly 205,000 people were employed as a physical therapist in the United States. The average salary of a physical therapist in 2012 was $79,860 per year. The number of jobs is estimated to grow 36% from 2012-2022. This job of physical therapy involves many and very important tasks to fulfill the needs of their patients. It requires many different educational requirements and you must have strong people skills.
Recently students have had a lot to think about when it comes to our future and what we need to do to get our career and future on track. So to get some insight and some very useful help I met with Gayle Tucker of Fast Signs here in Sioux Falls. Gayle studied graphic design at South Dakota State University where she found her passion for design. I asked Gayle why she chose to pursue this field. She started out wanting to be a fashion designer but learned how little she could do with it here in South Dakota. This is when she found graphic design where she could pursue her love of design and still hold a solid career. She also found it to be more fulfilling to be creative, where everything else seemed to lack or feel mundane.
Are you headed in the right direction? I’m talking about your career. Are you where you want to be? The truth is, real life has hit us faster than a moving train. We are now pursuing a career that we find enjoyable and profitable. Although we have each chosen our career path, some of us don’t have such a clear view of where we are headed. As students and aspiring designers, we must look at others and study what they have gone through to be successful. I, for example, look up to Shepard Fairey who in my eyes is the Andy Warhol of our generation. This man, ladies and gentlemen, has persevered to be where he is now. He is the flame that ignites my drive to preserve and succeed as well.
As my junior year comes to an end, the time for looking into my future begins. The process for a high school student trying to figure out where they want to go to college and what choices they have for careers and their future can be made much easier by simply doing extensive research. I have looked into multiple colleges and a couple careers I believe I would excel in and enjoy to make sure I am making the right decisions about my future. I have done extensive research on the colleges I am considering, including Kaplan University, The Art Institutes and Sinclair Community College. I have also done extensive research on being a photographer and on being a social worker so that I could consider these occupations for my future career.
As you requested, I am reflecting on the Career Service Focus Assessment. This reflection will allow me to be open minded about other career options, but at the same time find out if the degree I am currently pursuing fits my skills, abilities, and interests. I will discuss (A) the Career Service Focus Assessment results and recommendations and (B) strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities to help me achieve my career goals.
My short term goals while I am still in the University is to make it through this semester and hopefully by the time this year ends, I would have finally found what makes me an artist. That once I have found what makes my unique in the art world, and when I graduate I can keep what I found and bring it to my career. And how can my artwork make a difference in the word and to viewers? My philosophy as an artist is that every artist has a calling, whether it is to give a voice to those who have no voice or that through brush strokes, the image is given life with telling a story. The story can be told in many forms, depending on the viewers and how they see it. Their reaction or view to my artwork my change or relate to what the viewer is thinking. As my instructor, Sheldon Greenberg, stated in my interview with him is " Sometimes in not really about not just having, I mean I 've seen students that come into this school with amazing talent", they now how to paint and draw, "but they don 't know how to compose a good painting". He also states that "the part of ...
This is our time to decide for our own future. This is also our time to be more responsible than we ever have been in our lifetime. I know that I will have to choose a career I want to pursue in my future. I plan on becoming a graphic designer because I am very experienced with technology and art. I have been drawing and painting on the computer for a very long time. I’ve also done both on paper. I feel that it is something I am very talented in and that I will be very successful doing in a career. There will be requirements and duties I will have to be responsible for, in order to excel in being a graphic designer. In the long run, I will be making some good money every time I work. Now let’s sink
As we leave Warren, our paths will lead us to a world full of opportunities and career choices. Using our technical, manual or personal skills, going to college or developing our creative and artistic talents are all possibilities. As children, we dreamed of becoming teachers, nurses, policemen or astronauts. But as we reached our teen years, our true interests and abilities began to materialize.
A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. The last half of this popular saying is often omitted in our society because you must be the expert of that one thing you are expected to do or else you are no one. That is harsh. As I was trying to think of memories to put into this essay, I kept on coming back to one: art. Art is the one thing I have mastered, yet I do not fit into society’s mold of being a master of one. This is because I am a jack of all trades through art. Different skills, ideas, and physical things are all refined and developed through the creative process. The creative process has many complex parts ranging from drawing to painful agony, but when condensed it can be explained in three parts and each of them correspond to a part of intellectual life. Although there are many structured steps, in the end it is a fluid process rather than a set plan.
I knew that I wanted to be a working artist and that I wanted to teach art at a college. I knew that I wanted to find a wife start a family. I knew that I wanted to be active in my community. But I did not know how I was going to achieve my most ambitious goals. Recognizing that life’s journey is a marathon and not a sprint will help make obtaining your goals more manageable. In order to become a professor, I would need to get a Master of Fine Arts degree; in order to get an MFA, I would need to get into graduate school; in order to get into graduate school, I would need to make art, strengthen my portfolio, and build my resume; in order to have the time and money to do that, I would need to have a day job that did not zap my creative energy and paid well enough that I could afford to make art. So I took a job, made art at night and on weekends, entered art competitions, put on exhibits with friends, strengthened my portfolio, applied to graduate school, got that MFA, took every adjunct teaching job I could find, worked in a gallery, made art, exhibited, until I eventually landed a full-time teaching position and realized my goal of becoming a working artist and
Being in the art business is something I 've always planned on pursuing career wise. Ever since I was in elementary school it was something I was passionate about. I have memories of being so excited to doodle crayons and paint with cheap Crayola watercolors. It 's common for young children to partake in this activity. But soon after this stage, the interest of art deteriorated and it become more irrelevant to some teenagers. However personally, I just kept practicing until there came a time where I realized that art was what I wanted to do-- for my career, my free time, and my life. Not only is the graphic design branch of art socially beneficial and includes exposure to diversity, is always fresh, new, and creative, but it 's also one of the only things that makes me feel content.
I guess I have to open the topic of my paper “My Career” with me in my teens because my life has turned direction several times since then. Originally I had my heart set on a football career. I was fairly good at it playing both offensive and defensive positions. Unfortunately the outside sources that changed my budding career involved a tractor on my Uncle’s farm one summer in my junior year. The tractor won and I lost some movement in my knee for about three years. Needless to say my career was over. A few years later I entered college and found a desire to become an oceanographer. I have always lived near the water and interested in the ocean, the life under it, and the secrets it holds. If I remember correctly the outside force that ended this career was my own failure in following some strict study habits. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute informed me that they accepted only 3.0 grade point average and above. Another outside force at this time was the draft and the Viet Nam War. I ended up entering the Navy and was sure that I had found the career of my lifetime. I had finally found a career where I excelled. I was happy, enjoyed the professionalism, the freedom and authority that I possessed. This new career fit well with my character and what I wanted to do with my life. I trained people, helped them, watched them succeed and grow.
I enjoy art very much and that is why I mainly decided to take this course. Art, I believe is where I am able to express myself with confidence and present my imagination in a form which everyone can look at. I had taken visual arts last year, and I immensely enjoyed the opportunities that I was given by my teacher to present myself in different forms of art. Th...
All college students should partake in career exploration project because it gives structure and direction. The result from an assessment identifies and prioritizes which careers will best suit an individual person or student. It does not necessarily mean they have to pick that particular job or career; it gives them more chooses to choose from. Career exploration is a life long journey that is emotionally, physically and mentally stress full. I say lifelong because as time goes on so does an individual’s views, abilities and skills. Career exploration is very helpful to a career, because it improves a person's ability to become informed of their interests, skills, values, abilities, aptitudes, weaknesses and strengths It helps in the guidance of career matters across the nation, job influence, growth, work hours opportunities to name a few. An individual needs to remember that when doing this career exploration project to keep in mind that money is only a temporary fix. In the beginning it may bring you joy and happiness but as time goes on it will not keep up personal enjoyment i...