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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be an Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors:
High School
Bachelor's Degree: Educational Leadership and Administration, General
Graduate Degree: Education, General
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Life & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
1.
Started school to open a daycare center.
2.
Changed my mind and wanted to be a nurse. So then I started to take my courses for the RN program.
3.
Didn't work out. So then I got a associates in pre-education.
4.
Got a job with a school district.
5.
Now going back to school to get certified.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Myself:
The schools don't pay as much as nursing. That was the biggest line that I kept hearing over and over again.
How I responded:
I had to decide what made me happy and what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. As long as I'm able to support my family and I'm happy, that's all that matters. People are never going to be satisfied with the choices one makes and you can't please everyone. So be true to yourself.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
With an absent father and one income we lived in housing authority homes all our lives and we didn't have all the name brand clothes that kids our age would have. We had to learn to make do with what we had and be happy that we at least had a home.
I grew up in a household with a alcoholic father who was in and out of our lives. When he was there we would leave when he would come home in the morning from drinking because he would be violent. My mother did everything she could to make us happy.