Well, cornerstone students, we are in the last final stretch of the semester and it feels great doesn't it? This is our last blog, and like the others, we ask that you reflect. In just a few weeks the semester will be over, and it is a good time to re-assess the progress you've made into the future as well as the past. As interdisciplinary students, we experience a unique educational curriculum, but our professions offer many creative approaches as well, and it's good to start thinking now as you reach your final semester(s) in college. Many of us are far off in our educational development, but where are you generally headed in your professional development? It is never a bad idea to re-assess where you have been and where you are going, because you can't get to where you're going if you don't know where that place is! Ask yourself these questions, then share your answers.
1. How have you used your interdisciplinarity in your professional life?
2. What has been your professional history?
3. What are your strongest and weakest job skills?
4. What can you do to develop and improve upon your weak skills?
5. Identify two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to your chosen career.
6. How have internships or externships helped your professional development?
7. Discuss your personal philosophy concerning your professional life.
8. How is or isn't this philosophy interdisciplinary?
9. How have your career goals altered?
1) I have often used interdisciplinarity in my professional life to help me solve many different problems. It often helps to look at from several different angles and perspective to see what would be the best way to solve it.
ReplyDelete2) I have done everything from house cleaning, care giver, jewelry consultant, and art consultant.
3) I feel that my strongest skills are that I am fast learning, work well with others, and I like to take on a challenge. Me weakest would be that sometimes I can get distracted and bored if the job is slow pace.
4) It would help if I keep the end goal in mind even when it is a down time.
5) Public Health Social Work and the Peace Corp
6) It is always good to have a hands on learning experience. You can only learn so much by reading or listening to other people.
7) I feel that you should do something that you enjoy and that you should give it your best. But, I also believe that there needs to be a separation between your personal life and your professional life.
8) I feel that it is interdisciplinary because you are not looking at the situation with only one mind set, but rather from a few different perspectives.
9) I feel that the older I get the less afraid I am of work, and the more driven I have become. So, now I am looking into more complex and interesting career despite how difficult they may be.
Heather, I see your weakness as a strength - getting bored if the job is slow pace just means you seek meaning and actual results. That is a good quality to have! I too have become more driven through my years...wish you the best of luck in your career. Sounds like you have the motivation to be great at whatever you do.
ReplyDelete1) I've used interdisciplinary in my professional life to help blend art with journalistic coverage in photography. It's very important to be able to captivate someone with a beautiful or stunning image that also tells a story.
ReplyDelete2) My professional history has been freelancing as a news photographer and as a portrait photographer
3)My strongest job skills are my dedication and creativity while my weakest is my stubborness and my ego.
4) To improve my weak skill I need to open my mind up a little and see new ways to approach something.
5) National Press Photographers Association (of which I am a member) and the Strobist blog (any professional worth his salt swears by it)
6) They haven't. The last internship I had taught me nothing new and I made very poor networking connections. It was too small of a publication
7) Work hard and learn new things. Plain and simple.
8) It's not. It's two separate but equal ideals to strive for.
9) They have remained the same. I simply want to take pictures and serve the Kingdom of God.
Kevin I think that a lot of people can relate to your weakness, and that it is good that you can admit it.
ReplyDelete1. How have you used your interdisciplinarity in your professional life?
ReplyDeleteWhen I have to brainstorm to get a task done many times the use of interdiciplinarity is helpful since it facilitates seeing a problem from differing angles.
2. What has been your professional history?
I've never actually had a real job, due to the fact that my parents will not allow me to, therefore I have partaken in different volunteer jobs. I have volunteered at nursing homes,hospital, Give Kids The World, and abroad at a orphanage.
3. What are your strongest and weakest job skills?
Strongest job skill is probably that I am a perfectionist. My weakest is that I take on too much at once.
4. What can you do to develop and improve upon your weak skills?
Learn to pace myself in a more efficient manner.
5. Identify two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to your chosen career.
HOSA ( Health Occupational Students of America), and Volunteer UCF
6. How have internships or externships helped your professional development?
Reinforced the fact that medicine is what I want to do.
7. Discuss your personal philosophy concerning your professional life.
Always work/study hard, and you will see results.
8. How is or isn't this philosophy interdisciplinary?
It can be applied to many scenarios, including interdisciplinary ones.
9. How have your career goals altered?
My career goals have not changed.
@kevin:
I agree with Heather - your biggest weakness (ego and stubbornness) are some of mines as well, being able to admit it is the first step to improving.
@heather:
I am also looking into the peace corps, although probably after medical school - or before if I dont recieve admissions right away!
Good luck to all of you on finals!
In my personal life I have used interdisciplinary to solve problems. I believe my knowledge in this area has been a great benefit.
ReplyDeleteI have been a server for many years so I would not quite consider that professional history.
I believe that communication is my weakest and strongest job skill. It is a love and hate relationship for me.
I can try practicing more patience to better develop this skill.
I would consider the Humaine Society and the ASPCA as wonderful organizations for my chosen career.
I have not began an internship but plan to do so this summer.
My philosophy is to always put your soul into whatever you are doing.
This philosophy is interdisciplinary because putting your soal into your work is another added drive to those already present.
My career goals have not altered