Career

My resulting code from the RIASEC test was AIS. I ranked the artistic trait the highest with investigative and social coming next. I am majoring in Environmental Policy and Decision Making and at the moment, I am leaning towards going to law school and becoming an Environmental Lawyer. I have known for a while that I wanted to have some sort of environmental job. I think that being an Environmental Lawyer would suit me well because I am stronger in my English and communication skills than science skills. Having a job in law corresponds with both my investigative characteristics and my social characteristics. I do really love to learn and as a lawyer you are continuously reading and learning for new cases. Many cases would require me to question as well as solve abstract problems and talk about ideas. In law I would be working for the welfare of others and I enjoy interacting with people. For these reasons, I can see how a career in Environmental Law matches with my code. However, my dream job would be to make documentaries about environmental issues. I consider myself a very artistic person and I think art is an amazing way to relay information to people. Art is also a great way to influence people’s decisions. I know that personally, when documentaries are made well they can completely change the way I think about a certain issue. Many people could be reached through documentaries and it would hopefully influence how people think about the environment. This type of job would involve many more artistic aspects than a job in law would. As a child, I definitely wanted a more artistic based job. I wanted to be a singer-songwriter then which was actually one of the jobs listed with my code. By reflecting on both my dream job as well as my childhood dream job, I realize that it is very important for me to have art in some aspect of my life. Maybe I won’t have this directly through my job, but to be a happy and whole person I think I need to have an artistic outlet. Based on my dream job, maybe I could edit or make short films on the side. Through this activity I learned that it is definitely important for me to be helping people. Many of the careers O*Net recommended for my code were a type of therapist, counselor or psychologist. These careers represent my strong inclination to help others. These careers are not in line with my current career plan but they are careers I have thought about in the past. My Myers-Briggs test results align with these careers as well. Due to these two “tests”, I am more strongly considering a job in counseling or psychology. While my exact current career plan does not show up as a result of my code, Political Scientist does. This is related to law as well as my major involving policy. One of the jobs that showed up as a result when I only used the letters A and I was a Film and Video Editor. This aligns with my dream job of making documentaries. Environmental Science Teacher was also a result which encompasses my passion for the environment. I’m still planning on going to law school which is not necessarily reflected with the careers listed for me. However, many of the careers that corresponded with my code require graduate school. From all of this information, I think my immediate next steps will be to explore more potential careers. I think I have a good understanding of myself and what I need in life to be a happy person. However, I have not yet thought of all of the possibilities for my future. I can see that there are many different paths I could go down and I’m sure I could make all of them fit into my life and what I hope to accomplish. Aside from academics, the three things that I want in a career is to be creative, to share my passions and to move people to act. With these things in mind, my strongest career path so far, environmental law, still fits well with what I hope to have in a career. It does require some creativity, maybe not art but instead creativity of ideas. I will also be able to share my passions through fighting for the wellbeing of the environment. One of the most important things for me is moving people to act. This is also a very important part of environmental law because I could help create and enforce legislation that would protect the environment.

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