...Southeast Missouri State University, I want to pursue my degree in the field of accounting. After completing the “Choose a Major” project, it made me realize even more that accounting was indeed the right career for me. I learned a great deal during this project and the project also made me think of what I would like to do in my future after college. In the accounting program, I will be able to do it, it will benefit me after graduation, and it will please me. During my high school years, I had to make a decision on what major I wanted to pursue in college. I chose to go into accounting at Southeast Missouri State. Before making that commitment, I spent quite a lot of time deciding if I thought that this was the right major for me. Many people I know in my home town majored in accounting. Some had bachelor degrees and some had master degrees. I asked many of them what I should focus on to be successful in the accounting field. They each told me to always be a stickler for details, always do well in your math classes and be very knowledgeable with your computer programs. Also, very key to an accounting position is to have excellent communication skills. They also said it would be a challenging major and to work hard and never give up. After getting all of their input, I knew I could do it. I have always been someone that has determination and does not like to fail. I will work harder at something if I realize I do not quite understand the concept. I do not like to give up on something...
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...What it Takes To Become a Nurse By Sabrynna Escolta  Introduction Nursing is a career that my mother led me to, growing up my career of choice has always been an entrepreneur. Once the economy hit a low point my mother took the opportunity to explain to myself that it is important to choose a career with no chances of the economy effecting my job, which is why I have chosen nursing. When making this discovery, I have realized that nursing is a perfect career for myself. As a nurse being able to help and comfort people are very crucial parts of the job, these are qualities that I entail because of my nurturing personality. Throughout life my goal is to always help as many people as I can, and by becoming a nurse I will be able to become a nurse. What I know… Because I have done so many nursing projects in the past, my knowledge for nursing is impeccable. There are many different degrees in nursing, the most common ones are; associates, bachelors, and masters. As for pay rates I assume that the higher a nurses degree, the higher a nurses pay rate. The nursing salary can average from at thirty-five dollars and up, nurses get paid hourly and work at least twelve hours a week. I also know there are many different types of nurses such as; registered nurses, pediatric nurses, emergency room nurses, and much more. I can imagine that working in an emergency room can be very life changing because of all the incidents a person would see, and I also know that...
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...Elementary School Teacher The Story of My Search Recently, I had an amazing opportunity to job shadow one of the best elementary teachers in our district. As soon as I walked into the room, all of the kid’s faces lit up with excitement. Teaching elementary school is something I’ve always wanted to do since I was actually in elementary school myself. Although I’ve known this is what I wanted to be for a while, I wasn’t quite sure until recently. My tenth grade year, I became a part of the Teacher Academy I program and absolutely fell in love with that career choice. In that class, we not only did a good bit of book work to learn about the career field, we also went to our local elementary school and did hands on experience. We were able to...
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...Growing up, I loved playing sports. Basketball and soccer were my two passions. However, playing those sports sometimes came with some consequences, which involved some injuries. But without those injuries, I do not think I would have met the person that inspired me to be a physical therapist, Dave Marsh. The first time I went to Dave as a patient was when I was in the fifth grade for knee pain. From my very first visit, I knew that physical therapy was something I want to do for the rest of my life. I went to him again for physical therapy my senior year of high school, and being a little bit older, I was able to obtain an internship under him and really learn what it takes to be a good physical therapist. Dave’s interest in physical...
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...How academic experience prepares you for college and reaching career goals The key to a child striving to obtain a degree is for his or her parents to really teach the importance of having one. Getting a degree is probably the only thing that I look at totally different as the years has passed. My parents were real old school and they didn’t come from a family of scholars so I was not really pushed in that direction. They made sure I did well in grade school but all I really was told was to get a job. All children should be explained how better life will be for them and their children if they get that degree. I realize it now but I’m not in the situation I would be in if I started fresh out of high school. More opportunities would’ve been available because I would be more mobile. I have children now but back then I didn’t have any. I could have easily moved to another state if I needed to do that for my career. The long term results and values of completing a degree is a sense of accomplishment. Some people do it to make their family proud. Some may do it so that they can personal see their achievements. Whatever pushes and drives you to reach for the stars is positive motivation. When you get a degree you stand a better chance at getting hired for jobs. Once you get hired it doesn’t stop there. With that degree you will get looked at for promotions versus someone who doesn’t have one. The biggest difference that a degree makes once you start working in your career of choice...
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...and Selection HRMG 5800, Section 54, taught by Professor Karns. Abstract Can experience make up for the lack of a degree, or does a degree provide something that experience cannot? Is one more valuable than the other? Talk about a discussion that will have you chasing your tail! It's truly a trap debate because the right answer is "it depends". Whether it's a completely strategic discussion about your organization's policies or a discussion involving a specific position and candidate, this issue continually resurfaces at organizations. And depending on what side of the fence you sit, this issue can be very personal and emotional. Obviously, there are specific cases where the question is debatable. If you need a registered professional engineer to approve plans, the degree requirement is a given. If you're a hospital looking for a surgeon, you're probably seeking someone with a PhD in medicine. However, the scope of positions that may or may not require a degree gets gray pretty fast, and the span is pretty wide. And, no industry is immune to this issue. Keywords: experience, degree, organizations, policies, professional, requirement, industry. Education or Experience? It Depends. Take this scenario: Bob and Joe are both applying for the same job. They each interview well, but Bob has 15 years’ experience and no college degree, and Joe is fresh out of college with no experience. Who gets the job? The answer is: it depends. Here are some factors to consider when it comes...
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...Go To College? The big question for a high school senior today is should I go to college or not? In today’s world they say you have to go to college to be successful in life. Is this true or false? There are many big questions that taunt a senior. Am I ready for college academically? Am I financially prepared for the cost of college? Do I want to be forty thousand dollars in debt right after college? Do I really know what profession I want to pursue? These are all overwhelming questions that a high school senior has to answer. Among them are the pressures that everyone should go to college that our society dictates today. Charles Murray in “What’s Wrong with Vocational School?” makes a strong case that America needs to look at higher education in a different way. The second article “On Real Education” by Robert T. Perry states that America needs more college graduates. Both articles make good points, but Murray makes the point that not all are made for college. In the article “What’s Wrong with Vocational School” by Charles Murray he believes that college is not necessary for some people. Murray takes a look at the IQ test and how it could determine if students are academically capable or ready for college. An IQ test could possibly measure if you are college material or is there another path that would be better. Any score below 115 would mean that college is going to be difficult and hard. According to Murray the top 15% to 25% of the population should go to college for...
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...Vincent Godwin Amy Baus WVSII 5/2/16 Worldview II Capstone Essay Does it really matter? That’s the question asked to be decoded in this essay. The simple answer would be yes. All things matter in this world. The sad truth is that some people believe however that not everything matters. That is the reason the world is not nor will not be perfect now or in the near future. In Worldview class, valuable things were learned in an effort to show us how such important issues are being overlooked and almost under exaggerated. One of the early things from the semester we talked about was social entrepreneurs which continued throughout most of the semester. It all started with a man named Daniel Bornstein who wrote one of our required textbooks for this semester. The book was called “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”. One of the first things we studied in this book were Bill Drayton and his organization he started Ashoka. Ashoka is an organization started by Bill Drayton to invest in Social Entrepreneurs and help them with their projects they do. A social entrepreneur as described on Ashoka’s website are “Individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems”. In laymen’s terms, they are people who go to places all around the world where a problem is occurring in how people do things. When there they use all the resources they have to find creative easy solutions to the problems and spread that all over. It takes...
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... What is College for? What is College for? There are many answers to this question. I feel college is for people that want to succeed in life. You can be in any wage bracket, depending on what you’re majoring in. For example, you can go to school to be a doctor or a registered nurse. We all know doctors make more than a RN, so a doctor is in a higher wage bracket than a RN. As a student, you have the choice to be whatever you want to be. You might be in a major you like and end up changing majors because you found a major you like better. The first school I enrolled in was Central Carolina Tech in 1995. My major was Machine Tool Technology. My job paid 80% of my tuition, as long as it dealt with the job. I applied for a job in the Tool Room, but they didn’t want to hire me. I looked at getting employment elsewhere, but needed at least 2 years experience. So, after receiving my Associates Degree in Machine Tool Technology, I enrolled a second time in an Industrial Maintenance program. After getting my Associates Degree in Industrial Maintenance, I applied for a Maintenance helper position which I received soon after. I held the position for a year and tried to get a regular Maintenance position, but they did not want to hire me. I then signed up for a Die Bench Tech position, which I held for a year. I then decided to enlist into the US Army as a Machinist to gain experience within the civilian world. After serving 5 years in the Army, I decided to go overseas to work as a...
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...possessions a person can have is a college degree. On the contrary, a degree is simply a building block in life. College is a tool and education does not stop with a degree. Franklin also said, "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." I disagree with Megan McAndle's "Is College a Lousy Investment?" because I believe a person that has a college education with a degree has many more opportunities and advantages than a person without. America's workforce is one of the most powerful and competitive in the world and an education is essential. A credential represents the education received, but are the educated really educated? No. The educated are not educated until they learn to apply the education. A credential may look good on paper and look good at a job interview but if you cannot apply what you have learned, then yes, a credential is a zero-sum game. A wise man once said, "Never confuse motion with action." Anyone can go through the motions to acquire a degree, but the people who apply themselves best and have that drive within that makes them sacrifice anything to reach their goals will be the successful ones that obtain and retain jobs after college. Studies show that more than half of all recent graduates are unemployed or in jobs that do not require a degree. Sometimes it is not always about being the smartest; it is about having that motivational drive in your life. So is college a lousy investment? Not lousy...
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...As a senior in high school, keeping your grades up is very hard. Especially having extracurricular actives going on, I can never keep up. This makes me very nervous for college. But as I read the article “The Chronicle of Higher Education: Grades Out, Badges In”, it has been brought to my attention that there is a toss up between continuing to give out letter grades or giving out education-badges. This education-badge project is runned by the Mozilla Foundation, to give students online badges on their website. The reason why this project was invented, is that the founder, Erin Knight, thought that grades shifts students goals. Knight thinks stakes are high when the result of an entire course is just a single letter, not telling you if you understand it or not. I think the badges are a good idea. For a person who doesn’t test well and needs to take time on understanding, I think badges would help me....
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...Phoenix. As a student I am responsible for the way I conduct myself when it comes to honest when it comes to assignments and making sure that the wording is in my own words. When it comes to using other’s work I must show the respect that he or she deserves and cite their work the correct way. I have to make sure to read over the Student Code of Conduct and follow the guidelines when it comes to this situation. From here on out I will remember to maintain honesty and make sure to follow the correct way to cite information from my own benefits. The definition of plagiarism where an individual is takes someone else’s working and using as your own. The Importance of Maintaining Academic Honesty I am aware of the University’s policy when it comes to plagiarism and academic dishonesty. I have gone over the sources that have been provided for me through the University of Phoenix and articles from the library that is online. I have a great opportunity to finish my Master’s degree and given another chase to fulfill my educational goal and understand to make sure to look over my papers and use the tools that are provided for me through the University. I understand that I need to make sure to always respect the school policies, instructors, and the students that I am in class with. I understand plagiarism up and down now and how it might happen intentional and will take all measures to not let it happen again. By using others word or trying to use others work to complete mine only...
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...For this step of your plan you will reflect on Student Success Strategies that you have learned in this course that will help you be a successful student. Please do this by answering the questions that follow. (You may want to review the answers that you submitted from the Phase 2 Discussion Board. You will want to also review your instructor’s feedback and integrate changes as necessary.) 1. What three success strategies (from the Student Success Strategies Guide) will you plan on using throughout your degree program to help you be a successful student? The 3 strategies that I have chosen to adopt are making a “to-do list”, breaking larger projects down into more manageable chunks and balancing work and school. 2. Why will these strategies be most beneficial to you? MS can challenge your cognitive abilities and mess with your short-term memory. The longer I manger this disease the more I see this symptom. With that being said, making lists of what I need to get accomplish will be a great help. I see this as an on-going living list that will change often. I see this being an electronic list so priorities can be rearranged and updated easier. Breaking tasks into more manageable chunks I think will be essential to my success. I sometimes get so wrapped up in the over size of a project and get overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. This will be helpful at work as well because I am the only Project Administrator for five Project Managers. When you think of taking...
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...Administration degree (BBA) with an emphasis in Management and plans to graduate in Spring 2017. Although she is a full-time student, she spends her free time hiking and going on walks with her dog (Mikey), traveling, hanging out with friends and family, and developing her skills to one day own a cosmetics...
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...There is a lot of pressure that can be put onto college students when starting college or while in college. Even from the start of high school, students are faced with the pressure that comes along when getting ready for college. Students are expected to use the resources they get from high school and apply them to college. But from my personal experience, I honestly can tell you that only a little bit of what I learned from high school can be used in college. I am not just talking about classes, the college prep really did not help. It also feels that now high school students seem forced to go to college because that is the best way to succeed in life. Which is not entirely true because there are still some good jobs you can get without a degree. When in college there are many factors students face such as...
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