My Three Highest Career Interest Areas

My Three Highest Career Interest Areas

During class I was assigned to take a test that informed me of what careers that would best suit me in the future. My three highest career interest areas are: Humanitarian, Artistic, and Leading-Influencing. Humanitarian and Artistic are at a two-way tie following close by is Leading-Influencing. All these areas help people in some shape, way or form. My aspiration in life has always been to help people.

Before I took the career interest test, I automatically knew what interest area I would score the highest in. It was in the humanitarian category. In this career interest area it states that it helps individuals with their mental social, spiritual, and vocational concerns. The careers that support those needs are nurses, social workers, and therapists.

To be a nurse, they need to graduate from an approved nursing program and obtain a nursing license and pass the national nursing examination. This requires at least 4 years of education. Once they complete their education they can become a nurse and perform the duties they learned. The duties are to write down the symptoms, watch for improvements, help physicians, give out medication, offer physiological support and maintain sterile supplies. In this type of field it is necessary for them to have excellent diagnostic skills, develop trust with the patient, and to understand the functions and vital processes of the human body. Their starting salary rate is $39,000. If a nurse decides to transfer into a different line of work, they may become a therapist with extra schooling because they still require the same amount skills, such as, offering physiological support to the patient. Throughout the search for a career, I realized that nursing corresponded to my personality. I would like this career because I would like to gain more knowledge in a field of my interest and to obtain financial security. I feel I will be successful in nursing because it is a profession that I enjoy and feel comfortable working with.

Humanitarian and artistic careers interest areas were at a two way tie, but in my perspective, artistic should be my second. The major careers in this category are actors, dancers, and musicians. Careers in the artistic interest areas show much enthusiasm and creativity toward their performances. This is not my ideal job because I have major stage fright.

An example of a job in this area is being an actor. They need to have proper training at a dramatic arts school or through a college drama program. Their duties are to become a character and memorize lines and cues. By using those lines, they need to catch the audience’s attention through their speech, gestures and body movements. They learn this through training and the skills they gain are having creativity and the talent to think outside the box. They also need to have ability to sing and dance. Their starting salary level is $39,926. Some actors I know transfer into a similar entertainment field, singing. A person who has done this was Jennifer