Many people go throughout life trying to find their niche in the world. These individuals spend years in various fields, each completely different from the last. Never feeling fulfilled, they decide to settle for a job that pays well enough to live a comfortable life, one that involves mindless tasks that become tedious and mind-numbing. It is an honest living, but not one that excites the person or challenges them. While this may be the scenario for some, this will not be me. I have found my niche in society as a Clinical Biochemist. A Clinical Biochemist can work in a variety of different settings diagnosing illnesses and diseases. Through the use of lab tests involving blood, urine, and other body fluids, a Clinical Biochemist can diagnose and treat medical conditions that affect all ages, ethnicities, and walks of life. As a …show more content…
My other coworkers are my team in the laboratory, which I would be in charge of. My immediate boss would be myself. I would make a firm, but kind boss, compassionate about my job and dedicated to my staff and patients. My salary would be around $80,000-$90,000 a year with fringe benefits including health insurance, life insurance, retirement, etc. As for my employer, I would work for the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. It is a highly rated hospital in my desired location. Since hospitals are open every waking hour of the day, my schedule would vary depending on the needs of the hospital. Whether it is days, nights, weekends, holidays or anywhere in between, my schedule would be forever changing. In my free time, I could be with my family and friends. I am very social, so my free time would be filled with enjoying life and great people. I may not be able have these days very often because the hospital can be a busy environment that requires the help of all of its staff, even if it means working double shifts and may be even triple
Since the inception of civilization, people have dedicated themselves to certain practices to obtain needed supplies. With the advancement of society, these practices have specialized into roles that society needed and have become jobs and careers. With these jobs and careers, people have struggled to find a difference between the two, if there is one. However, the two are very different. There are a multitude of differences between a job and a career, but the most distinct differences being the necessary skill, and dedication needed.
While growing up many of times one may find themselves searching for their purpose in life through the different activities that one may join and often times quit in search of something of better interest, something that he/she may feel fits their personality/character in a better manner. Darnell Tingle once said, “Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have”.
Choosing a vocation can be a daunting task. With the world ever-evolving, one may come across a new attractive career every year. In order to ensure optimal job satisfaction, it is vital to educate oneself about every alluring prospect prior to committing. Simple factors like the time commitment and salary can mean the difference between a content existence and a miserable one.
In fact, it may be this same reflection that leads to an individual’s decision to prioritize practicality. Not all those who choose the practical path do it for themselves. Many may do it for their families, as a safe and stable means of supporting their loved ones. Others may take this opportunity to give back to their community through the ways they are most skilled. Instead of pursuing a single interest in a certain field, they choose to follow their callings.
No one should choose a career path or path of study because they think they’re going to strike gold, they should be passionate about what they do. However, Before I had a passion to help others my first love was football, I ate, slept and dreamt football, although those aspirations were short lived. Many people used what they were going through to help better themselves, but I wanted to help others and i thought that was selfish of individuals to only think of themselves while making decisions. If we lived in a world where marketability didn’t exist I think we would be living in a better place because people would do what they genuinely want and not what they are forced to do
Along with creating steps which will lead me towards my ultimate career goal, the creation of a specific five-year plan for myself was key. In five years I will be in school, hopefully in my final year of my Masters degree; a plan which seems so simple to achieve, however requires an extensive amount of hard work and dedication. Being so far in my academic career already, I will hopefully have worked in summer internships or been employed during the year by a speech-language pathologist or various health institutions to gain experience in the profession and potentially become full time employed by one of these institutions post-graduation. Within the five years, I will have as well established networks and built relationships with multiple
“As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.” I relate to this quote by Paul Shane Spear because it mirrors how I feel about pursuing a career in nursing. I want to be able to help others as much as I can. Arriving to this career choice was not a simple decision for me. What influenced me most in wanting to be a nurse was helping my grandfather during the past several years, and helping him through different illnesses and surgeries. My grandfather, who I call Papa, lives with me and my immediate family. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to help him because he and I are very close and he is my best friend. Through my involvement in helping him heal from his medical challenges, I was able to come
...r occupations where one can dress stylist and dine at fine restaurants and climb the corporate ladder, there could not be a more honorable and satisfying career that a person could give to their community and their society.
Application of career theories to my own life allows for analyzing past and future career decisions. Holland’s Theory of Careers states that one’s vocation is an expression of self, personality, and way of life. There is an indisputable and fundamental difference in the quality of life one experiences if they choose a career one truly enjoys, versus choosing a career one detests. A true testament to the validity of Holland’s theory, my job/career choices reflect my interests, as well as the evolution of my personality (internal self). My first job as a fine jewelry specialist and second job as a make-up artist echo my love of the fashion world. As I matured and became less fascinated by presumed “glamour” careers, I became captivated by physical fitness, nutrition, and medicine; I received my national fitness trainer certificate so that I may become a personal trainer. Nevertheless, my career decisions do not fit uniformly into merely one career theory.
The day before an Organic Chemistry II exam, I felt worried and unprepared as I wrapped up my office hours as an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) for CompSci 101. As I sat in the room waiting for my replacement to relieve me, I felt myself being pulled in all directions. At the end of the previous semester, I had ambitiously enrolled myself in two upper-level computer science courses, an infamously difficult statistics course, and second semester organic chemistry. Back then, I had not anticipated that I would have the opportunity to write my own book the following school year or that my manuscripts would be expected in the following
Many of my friends pick their careers based on money and trade skills that they have. I am proficient in art and design, but didn’t feel like that was what I wanted to do for my career. Your career shapes a huge portion of your life. It is what you do every day, for a large portion of your life. It is what I have prepared for the past 12 or so years of my life. It is way more than just money or a skill. I wanted to do something unique, something interesting, something that would inspire me to be a better human, something that would make me feel, something that is challenging, something that helped others, and above all, something that was rewarding and made me feel fulfilled.
I selected this career because I love all kinds of animals and I think that a veterinarian is the right career for me. My aunt is in the ASPCA, and cares for many animals, so I grew up loving nature and having pets. Another reason that I think this is a good career for me is that I wouldn’t mind going into the medical field. I would love to save the lives of animals and help them get better when they are sick. There are a lot of animal jobs out there, but this one stood out to me.When I took my career test, my top two results were trade vocations and arts and culinary. My top sub-interest was communications. In my opinion, my results were not completely accurate. I do have interests in culinary work, but I wouldn’t want it to be my career.
A goal I achieved was when I graduated from high school many years ago. I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school. It was a big accomplishment for me and my mom. Graduating was my goal. I wanted to make my mom proud, life happens I couldn't go to college then but I told myself one day I will full field my dream to have a career. I meet my career advisor at a job fair and am here enrolled to be a medical assistant. My new goal is to work real hard to get the best grades I can possibly get and to have perfect attendance at the end off the medical assistant program. Am going use my time wisely, get all my work done in time and ask for help if I don't understand something.
Many people are in jobs that are not satisfying because the job market lacks creativity and vision, also people are scared to branch out without being bombarded with risks.
They test many types of samples in the lab such as skin or body fluids like blood and urine. Lab techs have the responsibility to not only perform the test but to record the results and get the results where they need to be. Blood tests can indicate many different conditions such as a hormone imbalance or blood type. This is very important because if someone receives a blood type that is not compatible with their own blood, the patient could die. Skin and tissue samples can also lead to a diagnosis. They can run tests to see if a sample reacts to something or doesn’t react to something. This is how the lab tech helps to diagnose.