When you are asked what you want to become after high school, what do you say? If your not too sure you will say whatever comes to mind but I want to let you know its okay not to know what you want to do. But, i want to let you know that it is very important to start while you are in high school. Three things you need: First you should note your skills,abilities,interests,and personal priorities(Rutgers Career Planing). Next you should take a career survey test that matches you to your career and I strongly recommend it. If you find something you think you like you should decide if you need to take the technical path,the university route or the military.
It is very important that you note your skills,abilities, and what you really would like to do only because this helps you start some where.If you do not know any of your skills it is okay and you need to seriously consider joining any type of club in and out of school. Things like joining clubs not only help you discover your likes but they teach you to be more sociable and help you meet people that can help you in your future. Personally, joining Curves,an exercise club for women, made me realize that I want to do anything that involves health,medical and community care. I want to reiterate how important it is to start somewhere. And not to be disappointed about not knowing because all great people start somewhere.
The next step you should take after you've figured your interests is to take a career survey. I recommnened this because the survey helps you to get an idea of what you want to do as well as weave away at what you do not. You can ask your school counselor for one but if your counselor is to busy here are some websites that offer them : http://tcids.tbr.edu/questionnaire.php
http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/PCCPinterests.shtml
I strongly advise that you take a survey from your school counselor. Taking these surveys might not give you the perfect job idea but they help you see what your interests match up with.
If you feel you have been matched with the job for you the next step to take is choosing the technical, university, or military path. If your path is military you should figure out what branch is right for you and meet with your local recruiting site. I urge that you choose the military path only if you chose it from a personal view of yourself and not becuase it was thrown onto you becuase the military path is not for the weak at heart. If the job you want takes you down the technical path you should know that all technical colleges are not the same. Just because you want to go to a technical school does not mean you should slack off in your grades because they do look at grades. If you choose the university route I will inform you that universities look at academics, extra curricular activity, and test scores. It is okay if you did not make it to this step just remember not to give up.
Deciding your path is not easy , but its not impossible either. I hope that giving you all of these tips have helped you like they have helped me. I wish you the best of luck!
Bibliography
Career Planning – High School Students. http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/ .Rutgers Univrsity. 8 October.2011. http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/PCCPmain.shtml
Looking back, I wanted to be a teacher. My whole life. I used to teach my stuffed anmals when I was 6. My mom told me I'd be poor if I became a teacher. So I went to school to be an engineer. I attended engineering think tanks and summer camps all through high school. Struggled through physics, pre-calculus, calculus, trigonometry, statistics...... Learned how to fix cars, fly planes; however, I was not happy. I went through college as an aeronautical industrial technology and failed almost all my science classes. That January, I changed my major to English education and didn't tell my mom until graduation 4 years later. And I couldn't be happier. My point is, do what makes YOU happy, because you can't live for anybody but yourself!
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