Your career dilemma: "As you describe your dilemma, write down all the questions, issues, and concerns that you can think of. Let your thoughts flow freely. Your main goal here is to be honest with yourself."
In this activity, I described the pros and cons and possible issues that I can encounter while developping my career. I plan to work in the busines world at JP Morgan and I would like to be among the few ones at the top. But on the other hand, I am an humanitarian person and for this reason, I would like to work for the U.N. in Africa so I will be able to help people in need and especially children. I went to Africa for vacation last year and I was shoked by the poverty and the lack of basics things such as medecines, notebooks, pens, and so on. But the big dilemma in this story is that if I plan to work for JP Morgan, I would like to transfer to Columbia University, otherwise, I would like to transfer to a less valuable college so I waont have to spend a lot of money because the impact wont be the same.
This activity meant a lot to me because as it is stated, it will help me to stimulate my thinking while reminding me at the same time that I have to make a decision because time flies. To put it differently, I have less than two years to make my decision and b emor especific about my career.
I learnt that in order to make the right decision, I have to take account of my personnality feautures, of information about both jobs and last but not least, about colleges and my graduation plan.
The text affects my career because it pushes me to go forward and try to figure out what is best for me.
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When you say you want to work in the business world in JPMorgan - can you elaborate? There is always a way to make your career choice tie together. In this case, if you want to work in business there are many categories: marketing, finance, accounting, etc. Those are definitely things you can get into at the U.N. - if you decide to go into finance (which is business), you can choose to budget for the U.N. projects that aid Africa. There is no limit to HOW you can help the situation in Africa, it doesn't necessarily mean going there physically to hand deliver medicine or helping out the kids. There is something called the South African Stock Exchange and other programs advocated by the U.N. that channel funds to South African charities and such --- those are the business aspects you can go into if you want to help. You do not necessarily need to go into JPMC to do business.
ReplyDeleteHi Harmony, reading your blog and listening to you on the first day of our class I feel that you know what you want to be in your life but you are still little bothered by where you want to study and fix your ground so all I could tell you is that you have great start just keep it up and dont let anything slack you off from your dream..
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