Careers Choice

ok my teacher, Miss Zeinah, told us to look into a range of different careers that we would like and she gave us a worksheet to do.

here are some of my answers:

List some of the factors influencing your choice of career possibilities for question 1. For example it may be personal interest and skills, influence of family or desire to be wealthy:

Visual Arts, Design and Crafts: I absolutely love art and creative things. I like painting, and drawing and computer art and editing so if I become a graphic designer I could put those skills to use.

Teacher: I just think of how much reward a Islamic Studies teacher would get, teaching children Islamic knowledge year after year, and I think, Wow!!!!! I wanna get that much reward!!! But if I don’t become a Islamic Studies teacher, I would become a English and SOSE teacher, because I really enjoy these subject and I think I’m pretty good at them. Also Art, because I love art and painting and making stuff.

Pharmacist: Even though pharmacy is a boring job, I find it a bit interesting, like all the medicines and stuff, but you have to study for 4 years and get a high mark in VCE *groan*. Oh well, at least it pays ok, and you can choose your hours. My dad is a doctor so maybe I could work with him too.

How have your ideas about what you want to do in life changed over time? Explain:

Well, since my dad is a doctor, I saw that people really respect him and stuff. My dad is a really social person, and he talks about Islam everywhere even to his patients and he always tells me stories about how he gave da’wah to a person and how that other person wants to know about Islam. So at first, I wanted to become a doctor so could help Muslim women and be respected. But then, my dad started telling me how stressful it was and you cant have your own free time, then I sort of lost interest. I could become a gynecology specialist for women but meh. I really wanted to help the Muslim community though. So being some type of doctor is still on my list, but now since I told everyone I want to be a doctor, my family expects me to be. *sigh*.

I wanted to be something I liked and could apply my skills to. I thought of being a scientist but I wasn’t particularly interested, and also a dentist, but who wants to look at teeth all day? I loved the Space and the planets and astronomy, but I wanted to be something that would help the community I live in. I also though of being an author or editor but I don’t want to stay cooped up in an office, so maybe writing stories and poetry would be a hobby. I also love anime and manga but its pretty unrealistic if your not Japanese so that’s still a hobby. Also filmmaking and photography but that will always be a big hobby. So I thought of any other ways to integrate art into a job and being a graphic designer is one.

My heroes of school are my Islamic studies teacher from Minaret College. Br Abdul Salam (Grade 5 and 6), Br Omar (Grade 7) and Br Fadil (Grade 7). I learnt so much Islamic knowledge from them, that I still practice today and so many stories that I tell to everyone, and I think “I don’t even see them anymore but they are still getting the reward”. Br Fadil only taught us for 2- 3 terms but I learnt so much from him. He was a young dude and he was pretty fun, and we could ask him anything about Islam. He was just teaching at Minaret for one year because my principal requested him to (I think. He graduated from Minaret by the way) but he was studying to be an engineer or something. So yeah, I wanna be like him, teach for a few years and then go with another career (I don’t wanna stay in school my whole life).

And that’s it. A whole heap of things influenced me.

Oh yeah! And before I forget, I was in indecision about going to alima or not, but in the end I didn’t, because when you go to Alima it’s a life decision, though its very useful. And all my family friends and stuff ask me “So when are you starting your Alimi course?” and im just like “Errr…soon.*cough*”. As you can see I don’t like being pressurized into doing something.

Wow that was long. Sorry I rambled.