My daughter is going to be a senior in high school this year. She and her friends have been taking the college entrance exams and have done their general applications for financial aid. She has changed her mind several times about which field to major in. I have not been too concerned about this because she needs to complete her general electives anyway; however her one friend knows that she wants to go into physical therapy, so she needs to take specific general education courses. My daughter decided that she was going to look up several career descriptions to get an idea of the specific job duties.

In the beginning we had claimed that we would be presenting another angle to career and now when you have begun reading this article, do you not think that we were right in our claim?

One evening she asked me to spend some time with her on the computer researching career descriptions. She is interested in social work, probation and counseling. She thought she would type in each title and would get career descriptions of each. We found that there are so many areas for each of these professions that it would be easier to find out specific information if she could narrow down each field a bit. I have several friends that are social workers so I told her that we could arrange for her to talk to them about what they do in their jobs and what other social worker in their agencies do. The first social worker she spoke with works with families with children. She stated that her major was in social work and then she had a minor in criminal justice with an emphasis in juvenile justice. She told my daughter that there are so many areas of social work that it is a good idea to have a minor that gives you a more specialized area of study such as child services, psychology or geriatric studies. My friend also gave my daughter the name and number of a probation officer to talk to. My daughter found similar information in talking with the probation officer. Her degree was in criminal justice with an emphasis in child psychology. She had a primary case load of juvenile offenders. She said that her career descriptions were also very broad and that it helped to have a specialty area of minor study. We knew without checking that counseling is a very broad field and that there would be a great opportunity to specialize in any number of areas.

There are so many reasons why one writes an article. We also had a reason. It was simple enough. We knew that we could write better about career than what is being presented on the net.

My daughter decided that she was going to go into social work. There is enough overlap in the three career descriptions that if she did the social work educational track she could work in any of the fields of interest. With a bachelors degree in social work she could go on for a masters in psychology to become a therapist. She could also get a job with the bachelors degree to help decide which area she would want to specialize in as a therapist. My daughter feels more centered now that she has made a choice. I know that she will still probably change her mind several times during her two years of general study.

That was all about career and the benefits and problems associated with it. Now it is for you to decide if the benefits outshine problems or vice versa.

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Kathy Rollo never looks around at other career fields to see if she picked the right one. “I absolutely love my job,” she said. She is principal of Murfee Elementary School. She has been chosen as one of the YWCA’s Women of Excellence for 2007

Getting technical
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Gilbert school district names new principal
East Valley Tribune - Jaeger said the school has made students the top priority and focused on quality education. I want to continue the tradition that we ve established, he said. Jaeger grew up in Iowa and began his teaching career there in 1994. He moved to