Reflective Response

I will be talking about my interests, skills, personal and work values, learning styles and intelligence. Also, I will talk about what in school and out of school activities or programs I will need to do to increase my experience for my future career choice. I will also be talking about my future plans and what I hope to achieve to be successful. Including finance, family, friends, health and possessions and how all these things I will be talking about will help me pursue my career.
My interests are I enjoy expressing myself through art or writing. Art as in "photography" art. This relates to my career I want to pursue because I can easily take pictures that express what I enjoy, or I like doing. For example; If I like to go swimming, and love water. I would probably take some pictures of big oceans or well known lakes. Another interest I have is that I love hearing other people’s opinions. When you take photographs people are always commenting on them. The opinions people give might not all be positive, a lot of them can be negative as well. I also enjoy working with people, materials and equipment. This will help me pursue my photography career because being a photographer is hands on. You have equipment on you at all times, either having your camera and gear on you, or your on a computer editing the pictures you have took. Working with people comes easily to me. When being a photographer you might have to work with other people. Talk about what kinds of cameras or lens to use, or where to travel next. The skills I have are that I am dependable and trustworthy. When I am assigned to a job, I make sure it’s done and done properly. Although I am cautious about change, I know change is healthy and in photography there is going to be a lot of change. I cooperate well with others, and in photography that is necessary because I might have to take portraits of people, if they do not listen or something I have to stay calm and talk to them. I know how to use a computer and camera quite easily. I learn quickly, so if there is anything that I don’t know how to do, someone can teach me and in maybe a couple days I will be a pro at it. I try to avoid conflict, also I am not interested in dominating others. Photography can be harsh at times, you might work with people who think their photos or editing skills are better than mine. Some of my work and personal values are..working at a job that’s exciting and sometimes dangerous. Being a photography I might have to take risks, going to different countries eye witnessing horrid scenes, or even just take pictures or videos of the weather like a tornado. Often photographers might have to go over to the war fronts, that can be extremely dangerous. Another personal value is not to lose friends or family over a job. In photography I probably won’t have to worry about that. I will have to travel long distances, but I would not be away from home for a long time. Being a photographer comes with benefits. I would like to find a career that offers benefits and photography does. My top 2 learning styles are verbal/linguistic intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. Verbal/linguistic intelligence is either speaking out loud or writing stuff down. People who have this intelligence usually are good in English and writing. For example; I like to write down my ideas and for a group presentation I like the research part rather then the talking part. With photography you do need to communicate, but the communication is low compared to some other careers. Interpersonal intelligence is having close colleagues, family and friends. This is because people who have interpersonal intelligence skills like to be around other people and work with people. The activities that I will do in school would be making the yearbook for our school. This involves working with people, taking different types of pictures, and creating. In photography all these things are used. It will 20% prepare me for my future career. Out of school activities I would do to achieve my life time career would be just going out, taking different pictures even though my camera is not professional I can get in to the habit of taking pictures. My hopes for fiance and wealth for the future would be, I do not care how much I get paid as long as I make a decent amount of money to support me and my family. This includes not having to constantly worry about money, or how I am going to pay bills,rent, or be able to afford clothing or food for my family. I would like to own a nice house, not to big but not to small either. I would also really like to stay close to my family, not only my additional family(people living with me) but also the people who raised me and took care of me when I was young, and was there for me. Such as, aunts, uncles, parents, brother. Also, I would love it if I am still close with a couple close friends that I have right now when I'm older. Hopefully this career will give me health benefits such as dental. This would be greatly appreciated to help me, and my family in the future. For possessions I would really like to get my kids what they need, and at the same time go out and be nice and get them something they enjoy. I wouldn't spoil them, but it's nice to have the extra money to do something nice for my kids or husband. Right now I have jewelry that got passed down to me from my grandma, hopefully I have a girl who I can pass it down to as well. So in this, this is what I want my future to look like, if I get this career hopefully it is how I want it to turn out even with the little bumps in the road.