TURNING POINTS.
The first chapter discusses education path dilemmas. The dilemmas I feel I have for my education is what schools have the best psychology programs? Would the psychology courses I've taken carry over when I enter a four-year college or will I have to re-take those courses? These are some of the questions I often ask myself when thinking of my education path towards the career I wish to pursue.
Some career dilemmas I have came across is that my sisters don't think I should major in psychology. They both try to push me to major in nursing because my oldest sister is a registered nurse and my other sister has a BA but is now attending LIU for nursing. I don't pay too much attention to it because they cannot push me towards a career they love onto me. It just annoys me from time to time that they are this persistent when I haven't changed mind at all.
After reading the first chapter, I realized that it is a good idea to sometimes sit back and set aside career dilemmas from education path dilemmas to better understand yourself as well as what you want for yourself in the future. It is some what therapeutic to write down what problems or obstacles you think you have to overcome and how you must overcome them. Also, once you have all these questions you often ask yourself, you can then seek help or research to find out the answers to each. I enjoyed the activity and learned that even though you may think you know all there is to know about your career choice or how to go about your education, there is always a question you ask yourself in mind but often push aside and is best to not ignore these questions but find the answer.
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ReplyDeleteAsh I agree with you about how writing your problems and obstacles you may be facing down can be therapeutic. I believe completing some of these exercises are a great way to organize and balance objectives against issues to develop more of a clear path for oneself. Even though I don't do this myself, I believe writing any thoughts down is important to expose the issues you keep in the back of your head, so to speak, especially when these issues concern your future.
Ash I totally agree with your statement concerning career dilemma, because I experience pretty much the same obstacles in the past. My family tried to talk me out of my interest field for quite a while, but I proved to be too stubborn for them to persuade me. To my knowledge the worst possible thing you can do right now is to abandon your own dreams in order to get your family either satisfy or just off your back. I hope that by doing some of the exercises in the book we all shall gain the missing confidence when it comes to choosing our career paths.
ReplyDeleteAsh Ash, i totally agree with your though about career dilemma. The reason for that, i always want to be an army guy, there is no way for my family to accept my though, because i m the only child. However, i do take people's concernt, so i gave up my though of being a army.
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