Career Cruising

  My short term and long term goals education wise is just maintaining my good grades. I want to be able to go to a good university where I can be able to further develop my brain. Plus, to get into a good university, I need good grades. Especially since I want to go into the medical field, I need at least a 92% average. Career wise, I want to have a job during the summer so I can save money for post secondary schooling. I still would want to have a part time job during the weekends. 
  For the area that I would want to base my career off of, I need all the main sciences that are offered in high school. I would take chemistry and physics in both grade 11 and 12. I would take biology 12 as well just so I can learn more. 
      My top five career choices are: Psychiatrist, Radiologist, Oncologist, Neurologist, and           Pediatrician. 
For all those careers I would need: chemistry, physics, math, english, socials, and biology for sure. I would prefer to be able to stay close to home, hopefully in the same province. Hopefully, I could get into UBC or even UVIC. Both universities offer courses that I would need. To buff up my record, I could volunteer in places where I am helping others to get accustomed to the jobs that I want. To get to the career that I want, I need to continue to get good grades, save money for post-secondary school, get a job, and hopefully gain more work experience. The thing with wanting a job in the medical field is that it can get quite challenging at times. I would need to make quick decisions since it could be a matter of life or death for someone. Another thing is that I need to be more emotionally mature and stable. Working as an oncologist especially. 
  For these careers, I would need 2-3 years to get a bachelor's degree, 4 years for an undergraduate degree, 4 years at medical school plus an additional 5 years of residency training (roughly, depending on the career). Also, for some of the careers you would have to obtain a licence from the province you'll be working in. Usually, it takes about 15 years of schooling. Additionally, you would have to take the MCAT ( medical college admissions test). After the residency, you would have to pass the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). To achieve my goal, I would need to remain calm and hardworking plus I should never give up since it is such a long process for all the careers that I want to get into. 

Test Results

  For the Holland Personality Test, I got SAI, Social, Artistic, and Investigative 
 I think it's pretty accurate. I found it surprising that realistic was least compatible since I'm really logical when it comes to everything. The artistic aspect is spot on since I've always been into art. I wouldn't mind a career where I get to showcase that. The social aspect is something that I was looking into for a career choice anyways since I want to go into the medical field.
  
 For the VARK learning style test I got: 
  Visual: 12 Aural: 9 Read/Write: 14 Kinesthetic: 12 
      I think it's pretty accurate. I've always been a visual learner and I prefer being hands on anything that I haven't learned before. I do enjoy reading and I almost always read the instructions for new things.

    For the 'Take a Career Quiz': 
  Social: 70% Methodical: 65% Directive: 80% Objective: 30% Innovative: 78%
 It's pretty accurate for me. I love experimenting with new things. I know when it's appropriate to take leadership when something isn't working out. The Careers that were shown weren't ones that I considered. I'm more into biology, where I could learn new things about humans and everything surrounding us. I think being an event planner would be something that could suit me but it's not something that I would want to do everyday as a way to make a living.

     For the Holland Code Test:
    Realistic: 6 *lowest Investigative: 13 Artistic: 15 *highest Social: 11 Enterprising: 7 Conventional: 10 
       Your Holland Codes are as follows: AIS Artistic, Investigative, Social
 For the artistic aspect, it suggests that an author or editor would be ideal. I think I would be interested in that. I would love to write a book but maybe when I retire. For the investigative aspect, it suggest a lot of the careers that I'm interested in. It has careers that are in the medical field which I've wanted to pursue for a long time. I would be interested in becoming a nurse or psychologist (in the list provided). For the social aspect, it suggests other careers that I would be interested in. Psychologist shows up again as well as a registered nurse and sociologist. I would consider those two since I am interested in that. With these results, I think I do want to consider psychology as a course that I take in college/university. It does make it clear that I want to go into the medical field.

My Golden Future

After highschool, I would like to go into the medical field. I'm not exactly sure which branch I want to pursue yet. I've always been interested in biology so I think I would want to go into something that revolves around biology. I'm aiming to go to UBC and I will try my best to get there. Although, I do think I want to take a year off to get a job, save money, and travel a little bit. Then I think that it will be harder to get into a university. Plus, my parents suggest that I go directly into university or college after highschool. I think I want to stay in the province or may even go to UVIC. I still want to see which programs would be most beneficial for me and which schools offer them. I do want to stay somewhere familiar or just around people that I'm quite familiar with. It's scary to move to a whole new area with new people and adapt. I think I would want to stay in a dorm just to experience that atmosphere. Although, if I do stay close to home and go to UBC or SFU, I would just stay with my parents to save money. I could take public transit to get to my classes but I do live quite far away from the universties.