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Hello,
This is my latest "Le Challenge" that came from my school when I tried to fill out the "general" awards, bursaries, grants, and scholarships application. Every part was simple, but then I came across the fact that I needed to write 2 essays for it to be complete. The cut off date: TOMORROW (Oct.7, 2016). I started this tonight, and yes it took me all night but it will be worth it if I get it. Otherwise, it can be added to my inspirational/ motivational blogs that may help others. With that said, I am sharing the first essay with you here.
WARNING: It is a bit lengthy of a read.
Career Goals, Passions, & Commitment
To talk about my
career goals, passions, and commitment to my field of study/ life, I have to begin
with explaining my passions and who I am in these regards. I am a
highly-creative, design-minded individual that loves forms of freedom (ex.
Dancing), technology (with all its potentials), and the creative process. I am
very fair-minded, community (globally) and quality oriented, and I am not
afraid of change for the better – in fact I often bring it upon myself. My
passions are within all these areas and more, as I have many interests and much
inspires me. I consider myself to be a life-long learner, and often aim to keep
myself and others inspired/ motivated through sharing efforts involving
positivity (in many ways), community building, and of course self-improvement.
My career thoughts
include my interests in areas of creativity, design, and technology
specifically; as I want to include all of these in any job I do in my life. My
dream job would be to work in an entrepreneurial-type, community & technology-driven
local company. One that’s not afraid to: try new things, improve on things
(like the company BASF), or hear me out with some of my many ideas/ improvement
thoughts. As I often have many, I prefer to share them if they may help. Just
ask my C programming professor, about my time travel card’s contents during the
scavenger hunt - team “Syntax Error XYZ”.
A couple of examples that comes to mind are Communitech and
Desire2Learn.
As I wish we
already lived in the “Jetsons” (yes, the cartoon/ movies) era, some of my
career dreams/ goals include (but are not limited to) the following (not in any
particular order):
- To work with my design-minded-highly-creative brain that loves tech! – For any job I do (as mentioned above).
- To establish a specific brand/ trade name (already know a few options I’d love to do in different areas), and start making high-quality tech-involved products/ services.
- Technology induced designs (I LOVE the ideas/ thinking behind the “MYO arm band” from Thalmic Labs. I discovered this company during my career exploration portion of my “Focus for Change” class at the Conestoga College Waterloo location.
- To be like “Edna Mode” (movie: The Incredibles) with tech-involved designs for clothing/ costumes/ props that I can offer to the public as products. This one could also fit with #2 above here.
- This is one of my bigger goals! To build the software (and possibly hardware) for the pieces inside the PC/ laptop/ etc. for building customizable super PCs. I love that I am finally in my course to learn for this one!
- Yes, sorry I am not sharing this one publicly.
And lastly, I am
not currently seeking employment due to my course load as I am in my first year
of software engineering technology (co-op option I am hoping for). I just want
to learn and gain experience at this point. When I do obtain employment, I am
fine with working for others as it is always a good learning experience and I
enjoy helping others where I can. If it changes into an entrepreneurial
position over time, I am fine with that too. And I don’t know in which service
area it may be in – public, private, or non-profit; but I am good with trying
them all just to see the differences. As I appreciate diversity, and personally
wish that I could learn about 8 more languages - other than only English.
As
for the discussion of my overcoming or continuing to face obstacles (financial
or otherwise) while pursuing my post-secondary education: I feel that is best
left for the "Financial Need" essay, as it asks for me to share it
there also.
If
you would like the link to some of my motivational blogs, please don’t hesitate
to ask. Thank you for this chance to get you better acquainted with me. I
appreciate it.
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Thank you for reading it to the end here if you did.
Until next time...
Take care & Safe travels!
Chris S./ C.E.S. (*@^@*)
