What Is A Career Path Essay

Looking at a career path for many can be as simple or as complex as the individual involved and what has even brought them to this point in life that as assessment of career path is even prudent. For a number of people a career path may in some senses determined long before things like money and financial security were even associated with a labor. Though not as prevalent as it has been at one time, the idea or assumption that a child or children would continue on in a certain job as their parents had is not a larger part of the family values system. The idea that a child will continue with the family business be it farming, retail or other area has changed.
My own choice of career path in a number of ways I perceive as accidental. As a teenager

I elected to pursue a BS in Human Services thinking that I would be able to work in case management and with the mental health population. Being back in school came easy for me and given my personality type, rather low key, and with a solid knowledge base and, so I am told, a calming speaking style, I decided to pursue an MA in Counseling.
Where will this lead me? At this point in my life I don’t see myself entering a new full-time career, at least not to last for decades. The possibility of retirement is not that far off or me, so the idea of working as a counselor as a semi-retirement occupation holds much potential and this is what I am currently

Currently I am working in a group home with three chronically mentally ill men with two of them having been institutionalized for over ten years and working toward acquiring appropriate social skills while abandoning behaviors that they learned in their previous settings. Basic skills such as closing the door to the bathroom or not consuming their meals at a world record pace offers many challenges. Behavior modification programing is always being adapted and adjusted as things change for them. Instituting positive reward systems that can lead to appropriate behaviors in themselves are challenging. Of equal challenge is training less experienced staff how to utilize these programs with the focus on short term and long term goals for these men. Counseling in this setting is more on the level of crisis counseling and intervention versus a typical out patient relationship which I hope to enmesh myself into in the