“Evaluate the extent to which Freud 's theory of psycho-sexual development can help us to understand a client 's presenting issue?”…
Academics serve as the basis for growth in my career goals. I enjoy and excel in mathematics and science classes, but I hoped to select a field of study in college that also embodies my creative pursuits. For years, I separated my logical and creative passions, never considering that they could combine. Engineering arose as the perfect solution to…
One of my greatest accomplishments was graduating from the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance. While working a full-time job consecutively juggling school activities I completed my degree in three and a half years. I was encouraged by my grandfather who was once a Dean of Educational Services at Miami University and consequently had a long legacy of being a superior educator. Completing my degree and starting a career in Banking at Wells Fargo brought an abundance of pride to me and my family. Starting as a Teller I worked my way to becoming a Branch Manager in four years. After devoting ten years in Retail Banking I transitioned to Business Banking. Within six months I became a Business Banking Administration Manager, managing Business Banking Associates and operations among 5 different locations. Three years later I learned that a Business Banking reorganization was going to happen furthermore, I amongst numerous others…
While the current career path that I am in has not been my dream, it has been a career that has allowed me to mature intellectually and personally. It has also provided me with plenty of opportunity to know what I do not what to do professionally.…
Coming from a family that owns a small business, I decided to pursue a degree in business administration with concentration in management and marketing. By the time I graduated from college, I realized how important it is to implement information technology into a small business like ours. Our competitors have created online shopping websites which result in increasing sales and expanding territories. It would be cost insufficient for us to hire a professional firm to build our website and maintain it. I start thinking why not doing it myself and that is why I am here in DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media.…
The article “Are You Deciding On Purpose” about the interview of author, speaker, and counselor Richard Leider really made me think about my life and what I want to do with myself. Leider brings up many great points in the interview and it was an eye opener for me after I finished reading the article. The first thing he mentions in the interview is how people are intimidated by all the choices we have now as career options. Nowadays, there are so many career paths to choose from that it overwhelms people and the decisions that they make. I think this is true for everyone and especially me. I thought about this for a while and I too do not have any idea what I want to do in my life. I have changed my mind many times about what I wanted to do as a career and I always thought about the money. After I finished reading the article, I realized that picking a career path is not all about the money. It’s about whether you enjoy what you are doing because you spend 60% of your entire life working. If I spent 60% of my entire life just working to pay the bills, I would be miserable by the time I’m retired because there wasn’t any satisfaction or fulfillment for me. I still don’t have any clue on what I want to do with my life but reading this article really changed my mind on a lot of things.…
After graduating from high school I didn’t think about going to college, all I wanted to do was work, hang out with friends and play video games. So at the age of 17, I started working for my uncle at his liquor store for about a year. Throughout that time I attained a great amount of skills; ever where from management to customer service skills. With that being said, I thought about expanding; maybe getting a job elsewhere that will pay me a higher salary for the skills that I have. I applied to Liz Claiborne Inc. in North Bergen, NJ at the age of 18 and got hired as a product coordinator. I was so excited; I was only 18 and about to start making a salary nearly equivalent to that of a college graduate. At this point I thought to myself; “wow! I don’t need to go to college to make money”. I continued working for Liz Claiborne but after three years noticed what I had as a career wasn’t what really interested me, nor something that I wanted for the rest of my life. I was really just doing it for the money. Then, that’s when I realized in order to obtain a career that I always dreamt of, that college was something that I needed to accomplish. I started researching and asking myself questions like “why am I going to college? What am I going to get out of it?” then came up with answers, “if I don’t go to college I most likely won’t have a career of my choice”. If I graduate from college I will have an opportunity of living the American dream; a beautiful family, an enormous house, and nice…
Not only was this influenced by my parents, both being in the business world, but because I had always had an interest in colors, and design, and how things like advertisement and promotion influenced the public. Knowing that goal, I took many classes that pertain to a career in business. This includes, entrepreneurship, speech, business information management, sports marketing, and retailing. By taking these classes I am going to graduate high school with a business endorsement. This means that I have taken a combination of classes that will help further me in a business career. The classes I have taken have really taught me tremendous amounts of how the business world works, and where I want to be in it. Sports marketing, and retailing gave me an insight on how social media, and websites can be a vital tool in the marketing world. By taking classes like speech, and business information management have helped to develop my public speaking, and internet database, and application skills. I have learned much more through DECA, and the classes I have…
My current endeavors in higher education are preparing me for a new chapter in my career. Since graduating with my first bachelor's degree in 2010, I have had various technical jobs. However, I do not want to continue on my current career path through retirement. I have consistently held positions in a support role, ensuring day-to-day operations run smoothly and taking care of issues as they arise. Broadening my education in Information Technology (IT) will allow me to settle into a more project-based environment, where I can find creative solutions for technical problems.…
References: Bronson, P. (2003). What should I do with my life? Fast Company 66(10859241), 68-79. Retrieved February 9, 2003, from Proquest database.…
Currently, I am a college student studying engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am doing well in my education and hopefully have a bright future ahead of me in my discipline. However, I feel as if something is missing. It's as if I have a need to pursue my true passion which lies in the game industry. Inevitably, when I thought about starting at a company where I could grow to become an influential figure in the realm of digital entertainment, I immediately thought of Square Enix. The games that have given me the drive and confidence to break into the industry have all come from this company. From my first time picking up a controller and putting Final Fantasy IX into my console, I knew where I belonged. I can assure you that,…
Throughout High School and college I didn't know what career path that I wanted to take. As a college student, I just gained the opportunity to express myself, to spread my wings and to go after my dream only to realize that I didn’t know what it was that I wanted to pursue. The pressure and expectation from everybody did not help the cause either. So I decided that I am going to pursue engineering because it is a profession that I could finish and get a job after 4 years, plus I had friends I knew that were also doing engineering. I attended an engineering seminar along with my friends to attain a better understanding of the job and what it entails to achieve the goal. The classes I needed to take to be an engineer required a lot of math and physics, and once if I became and engineer I would need to apply those subjects in the job. I knew right then that engineering wasn't the right profession for me because I would…
I have been an Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper for about 12 years and it seemed the logical choice to get my degree in Accounting or Business but it wasn’t of very much interest to me. I began talking to people who really enjoyed their jobs how they knew what it was they wanted to do in their chosen career. “Do what makes you happy.” Was the first thing my mother told me and my dad said, “If you have a job you enjoy, you will never have to work a day in your life.” I have always enjoyed working on computers, trying to figure out how to do different things. When my computer would act up, I would try to fix it myself before I would have someone else try to fix it. It interested me and so I began looking at different degrees available in the computer or IT field. I decided that this is where I want to pursue my…
After all not knowing our strengths, accomplishments, and desires or how to utilize them hinders us in making a sound career choice. There are many ways to be deterred or misled as to why or how to go about a career change. It is suggested in “What Color is Your Parachute” that if an individual follows a few basic steps, develops an understanding of his or her self, and does not go about a career change or job hunt in the usual manner, one can be successful at finding a career that is enjoyable, even if a company is not advertising (Bolles,1995, p.186).…
I began high school with the mentality of following a biomedical engineering track through college, although I was unaware of what the engineering field entailed. I realized engineering failed to strike a chord as I could not see myself being passionate about the career. Fortunately, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and apply to a program at the Kelley School of Business. What started as a curious interest in business soon resulted in a fresh outlook of the range of careers that would allow me to make an impact if I pursued it through the business track at New York University.…