Personality and Career Assessment

This project has really opened my eyes to the many opportunities that are out in the world that I just shut out because I think I need to be set on one profession right away. Although that is completely and utterly false, this was my wake up call to realize it is my freshman year in college and I don’t need to know these things right off the bat. Time needs to be taken to evaluate the different things that I can put my heart and soul into and really strive to do my best in.

While taking the different types of assessment and test on MyPlan.com it was strange how accurate the results were of me, every single one came back and hit the nail on the head. I took the personal interests’ test, the personality test, and the skills profile test. Each of these tests gave me insight to things that I could look into as a career that would spark my interests. Anything in the medical field really interests me, which it has been that way ever since I can remember. While on the other hand I have recently been thinking about becoming a teacher then moving up into an administration job, such as Principal or Vice Principal.

I’m interested in so many types of occupations, all which revolve around either meeting tons of new people, traveling, or both. People always say, “Do what you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life and be able to stay happy while doing that.” Although at this point in my life I can honestly see myself finding happiness in everything I do and I can see things in a very colorful perspective and love them all in unique and different ways. So while saying that why not choose something out of all the occupations I could see myself in, choose the one that makes the most money? It may sound silly but whenever I think of my future I want to see myself not having to worry about struggling to provide for my family. Which now when you think back on how silly that sounds, it really is not silly at all.

A field that came onto my radar at the MyPlan website that I am vaguely looking into is receiving a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, then proceed to study four more years at a Law School. The nationwide average pay for a lawyer is 129,020 dollars per year. I have always been told I’d be a great lawyer, for one of two reasons. One, my firm stance on the things I believe in or two, my sassiness. Hopefully it would be option number one to most people that truly know me. The only downfall I can see that would end up happening to me in this career is, if I am working for a major company or even a small law-firm and they asked to take a case that involved me defending a murder or rapist, I just know that I would be unable to fulfill my job there and most likely be asked to leave.

Another field that I am looking into would be a Family and General Practitioner. In college I would pursue my bachelor’s degree in Pre-Med, then go on to medical school for four more years to become a licensed doctor. The national annual salary is $168,550, which to me was a surprising new fact I learned because I always thought that a lawyer would generally make more money. I would love the since of ‘coziness,’ I suppose would be a good word, in the environment at a family doctor’s office. Mostly everyday you would be seeing some of the same people that could’ve been going to your particular office since they were children, so you can develop relationships with the patients. Also people are always looking for a new doctor, so I know they get new and random patients everyday. Those are the factors of this job that really appeal to me and I could see myself working in this setting every day.

One of the careers that I was matched with on the online Career Center assessment was an Education Administrator for Elementary and High School. This is a job I can see myself really enjoying because of the interaction with children of the younger ages and older ages, the middle school is something I wouldn’t want to even mess with. The education needed to achieve this is to graduate from college with a teaching degree then after that is accomplished you may get a job at a elementary school or high school, depending on the need and the way that district is run you can teach for a few years and then move up into a position in the Administrative offices. The average national pay per year is $87,390, which if I had a husband with a good enough job to help support our family that would be fine. Although that is the ideal situation you can’t depend on someone else your whole life, things happen and you need to be stable enough on your own that you can tell yourself things will be fine if your significant other is not around, or has lost his income. This job isn’t limited to just the United States either; this could allow me to travel and teach in third-world countries where caring people are always needed. That is something that has mainly drawn me into this job because of my missionary work background, I see the need for loving and compassionate teachers in places that are not as fortunate as the United States with public schools you can attend and it included in your parents taxes while in other countries it is sometimes too much of a burden to send their children off to school, either because of the location or if there is a price to attend. The last job that I found on My Careers off of MyLife.com is a Chiropractor, it is actually the job that I have been looking into since literally third grade, don’t ask why or how I even knew what a Chiropractor even was at that age but I did and I’ve been determined ever since that, that is what I was going to do with my life. At some colleges they have Pre-Chiropractic degree plans that you can receive your bachelor’s degree in then proceed to get your doctorate degree from any licensed chiropractic college in the United States where you will be practicing medicine. The national annual salary is $80,390 and changes drastically from state to state. Not only have I always wanted to be a chiropractor but also I’ve had this dream of opening a spa that is only for holistic types of medicines and remedies. Since owning and managing businesses is something that seems to run in our family it would allow me to fit right in. I would have my business strive and grow into something that made more people curious about holistic medicine and the want for a healthy lifestyle, without controlled medicines or even medicines that alter your moods. I believe that there are some people that really do need to be medicated for the sake of the other people in their lives, but I also believe people take advantage of doctors and deceive them to get prescribed medicines they think they need to make themselves better, when in reality that’s a mind-set of a failure. If you don’t want to strive to be the best you, you can be then there is the problem in itself. Chiropractors are there to help people with pains and aches they think only hardcore drugs can heal but they are so wrong. Chiropractors help align your spine and make sure everything within your body is aligned so that you are on the straight and narrow path to healing.

When I interviewed Dr. Armstrong it was very quick and she was very brief with her answers but I got the jest of what she was saying with every answer. It really made me want to go into the medical field more and strive to do my best in school, so that I can be my very best whenever I get out and utilize everything I learned in college to the job I will be doing every day. She is a very knowledgeable lady, a little crazy at times, but she really knows what she is talking about when it comes to the biology and chemistry of how things work.

This career portfolio project has really allowed me to take a step back and analyze all of the possibilities I have standing right in front of me and its up to me to choose what I’m going to do with the rest of my life. Of course I still have a year or two to think about these things more in depth but this project will always come to my mind when I’m thinking about what I really want to do and what’s the most important thing to me in a job. I plan on taking different types of classes until I really find one that strikes my interest and I can stick with and declare my major in that particular field. Hopefully I get a chance to study abroad and find a program that will maybe crack open my opinions and eyes a little bit more than what they are right now. I am also looking into transferring in a year or so, not because I don’t like UTSA or anything crazy like that but just for another chance to meet people and throw myself in a whole new situation filled with new people and new surroundings.