For most, the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was easily answered as a kid. However, as a person grows older answering that question becomes more difficult. I spoke with Monica, a twenty-three-year-old, who dealt with this question. She recently graduated with a bachelor's degree, majoring in Biology and Spanish. Before this, she wasn’t certain of what her future would look like. She was just a young kid who loved drawing princesses in her free time. There was fear of failure, following the wrong path, and feeling unsatisfied with her work. Through time and effort, she discovered her interests and finally felt the confidence that she landed her dream occupation of dentistry. Somehow, even these young artistic pastimes have influenced her life when joined with her interest in science and being social. All of these shaped and set her on a long path to finding her dream career.
Like Monica, many people struggle finding their perfect employment match. Lynda Saad reports for Gallop, a management consulting and research company,
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Sometimes their employment dreams might start at a young age. Young kids have a wide variety of interests, but they lack experience in the employment world. The article “What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?” from Trade Schools shows how most elementary school children wanted to be a professional athlete or a teacher. In middle school, most of the children wanted to become a scientist. In high school, the top choices were between becoming a writer or author, engineer, and scientist. David Ewalt discusses in the article “When I Grow Up: Kids’ Dream Jobs,” that young children don't understand the demand and income of their dream jobs since they are only thinking of what is attractive and fun. As children get older, they learn and are influenced by their experiences. They understand what is demanded by jobs and want a more realistic profession based on their
When we were little, we thought the word “Career” was not a big deal, but as a senior in high school, the word has become our reality as we start to finish our last semester. The question we’ve been asked all these years is, what do you want to be when you grow up? But our answer is simple: we don’t want to grow up. As an innocent kid it seemed like the time would never come, but it has. It’s time to get serious and really ponder this question.
As young child we are all asked what we would like to be when we grow up. Usually the answer is a firefighter, a policeman, or nurse. When I was a child I changed my mind multiple times. At first I wanted to be Minnie Mouse, then a dancer. Then, about two years ago, I wanted to be a crime scene investigator. I had all my plans worked out. I was going to attend the University of Memphis and major in criminal justice. However, one day about a year ago, my mind totally changed. I decided to go in the complete opposite direction. I decided that I wanted to be a cosmetologist.
As a child, dreams of becoming something that often times are believed to be slightly out of reach, such as a pro athlete, or a rock star, or an actor are common. Adults tend to veer juveniles away from aspirations of pursuing these careers because the chance of success in one of those careers is quite
jobs that no one actually wants, what child says “I want to be a salesman when I grow up” ? it
... In the future I hope to become a Dentist and have my own practice. In order for that to happen I must have an associate’s degree, bachelor’s, volunteer dental hours, and must have a dental license. Someday I would like to make a difference in someone’s life, like someone did for me. With hard work and dedication, anyone can go far.
All the various factors that lead me to dentistry amounted to just a part of my decision to become a dentist, the other half of my decision came from the simple question, “(w)ill this be a satisfying career for me?” A satisfying career, to me, is defined by whether or not I can use my career as a means to assist others and experience a sense of accomplishment and self-gratification in helping others. The notion of a satisfying career was one that came through personal experiences. Being a former Medicaid recipient, I was thankful to those that worked in the public health sector to help those in need, including myself and my family. Through my past experiences, I felt obligated to reciprocate the resources and assistance that I had received. At the end of my career, I hope to reflect back on my career and experience a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment for having helped others throughout my career; this is what will amount to successful career, from my point of view.
Growing up I can’t say I ever knew right off the bat I wanted to work in the dental industry. I wanted to be a soccer player or an artist of some sort. I have a very big extended family with awesome careers. Which kind of got me thinking, what do I really want to do? Two of my uncles and one of my cousins are dentists. So of course they were talking to me a lot suggesting the dental field.
One of my favorite quotes is by Steve Jobs, states, "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become." This quote is exactly what I am doing today by submitting my application to the Dental Hygiene program. I am taking years of training, success, and failure and focusing them all in one direction on obtaining my deepest desire. Over the last fourteen years, I've had plenty of time to develop myself and gain a full understanding of what I want to do with my life. I've come to not only love and appreciate every experience I've had in the medical field, but also aspire to grow and embrace the new challenge. Working as a Medical Assistant in an outpatient surgery clinic I learnt that I excel most when I'm working directly with patients, in a hands-on environment. I also found out that I'm extremely passionate about educating people, especially mothers; because I believe mothers play a key role in teaching the next generation about how to develop healthy lifestyle habits.
I knew I wanted to be involved in a dentistry related career from a very young age as I always wanted to role play being a dentist I always played with me childhood friends and used my imagination to create scenarios, but the real passion for becoming a dentist grew when I went to my first dentists appointment, this was the real starting point because I started seeing myself as a future dentist. furthermore during two years of visiting the orthodontist for my braces I understood how helping and caring for people can be rewarding as a smile is one of the main features of a person that helps them interact with others , during my treatment I also experienced the satisfaction of a patient
When I was little my teachers would ask me “Cora, What do you want to be when you grow up”? In reality, I couldn’t make up my mind on what I wanted to be ‘when I grew up’. When I was around seven, I went from wanting to be a Veterinarian to being an Astronaut, then back to a Veterinarian again. Around age 10, I wanted to be a dentist, even though I hate mouths. Then I wanted to be a Veterinarian again. Junior Year of high school came and when we started to research colleges and careers I heard that Premed programs were so hard to get into, and I wasn’t fooling anyone with my grades. I did some research on Veterinarians and I discovered that the Veterinarians don’t really handle the animals like I thought they did. Then I learned about Veterinary Technicians, they do so much with the animals. I
Choosing a particular profession is one of the most important decisions that we take in our life. .In my opinion, I would like to focus on a career that is enjoyable, productive, creative and simultaneously allows you to work for the betterment of humanity. According to me, one of the most productive and fulfilling career that provides you various opportunities to help and promote humanity is that of a dentist. Dentistry gains magnificent attention in last some decades and so a huge percentage of people around the world and from US are devoting their life to this noble profession. Becoming a dentist requires a lot of hard work dedication but the factor that motivates you to face these difficulties is the actual pleasure gained when you are able to change someone’s life by creating a beautiful and healthy smile for them and the joy of which could not be expressed.
In the future, I hope to pursue my career dream of becoming a pediatrician. Pediatricians can be identified individuals who specialize in giving medical care to children and adolescents between infancy to adulthood at eighteen years of age. I became inspired to become a pediatrician due to my immense love of children. Perhaps I have an innate intuition for taking care of people being that I have always felt that I excel at taking care of others. The idea of taking care of others truly makes me feel that I serve a purpose, not only to better the life of myself but the life of others. Therefore, I believe that becoming a pediatrician will help me combine the best of both worlds into a career that I adore and cherish.
Growing up is scary. Especially when the future is unpredictable, finding the right job can reduce this. It is tough as a kid to think about how to spend the time in the future and what to be doing as a career. There are a lot of decisions to be made. For example, in order to pick the accurate college it is worthy to know what interests me as an individual. There are questions that can be answered that will be able to suggest a better idea of what jobs apply. Well, in the future I would like to have a career as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
The rate of unemployment for the 18 – 31 age groups nearly doubles that of the next age group comprised of their senior cohort. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 63% of the stated young adult age groups were not employed in 2012, with this being the highest percentage in forty years (2012). Most parents have a very strong influence on the course of the career their children choose to follow. Finding employment that will support a household with established debt from college and other growing expenses has proven to be a real challenge.... ...
My career choices have changed through the years from mother and housewife through architect, accountant, or teacher, finally I have arrived at a computer career. The following is an idea of the path I have followed.