Celebrating 100 Days - Spring Style

The weather, as much as it fluctuates, is beginning to warm up.  The trees and flowers are blooming, the days are getting longer, and the excitement of summer has begun.  With our second semester of the 100 Days of Career Exploration coming to close, we are not feeling sad but excited for the upcoming school year and the new opportunities we can provide to students!  If you are a continuing student who is undecided or unsure about a major, don't be discouraged!  We have wonderful resources at the college that offer support and guidance throughout your discovery process.  All you have to do...  is ask.  All of our Academic and Career Advisors are trained to answer questions about major and career exploration.  They can also direct you to the resources we have to assist with all areas of the process from assessing yourself, to exploring ideas, to planning out classes once you've decided on a major pathway.

Some very important questions to ask yourself as you begin to discover what you want to do in life are:

1. What did you love doing as a child?  Or what were your childhood dreams?  If you can't remember, ask yo' mama.  Seriously.  Ask your mom or someone who knew you well when you were little and they can fill you with great stories.
2. What subjects do you enjoy?  What subjects are you good at but don't necessarily enjoy?  What subjects are the bane of your existence but you have to get through them to finish some requirements?  What subjects are easy and natural versus difficult and take most of your effort?
3. What hobbies or personal projects have you been involved in?  What did you learn, skills you gained, liked, and disliked?
4. Of what personal projects or achievements have you been the most proud?  What gave you this sense of accomplishment?
5. What skills do you possess?
6. What skills do you use take very little energy?  What skills take more energy to do?
7. Work Environment:  Where you enjoy working.
8. Work Tasks:  What work activities you enjoy.
9. Work Focus:  With whom or what you enjoy working.
10. Work Style:  How you enjoy doing your work.

A lot of questions but the more you ask yourself, the better you'll be able to figure out what your major and career will be in the near future.  I encourage you to read through past posts to learn about the Career Decision Making model, advice on major and career exploration, and grasping the idea that this whole thing is a process.  Learning is a process.  It's the joy in the journey that makes everything exciting and worthwhile in the end.  

"Everyone has their own experience. That's why we are here, to go through our experience, to learn, to go down those paths and eventually you may have gone down so many paths and learned so much that you don't have to come back again."~Prince (RIP)