Choosing a Career and Then You Die
Career Day, Friday November 22, 2013. Career Day is a day that feels like it’s a decade long: dedicated to college pushers, nurses, military men, doctors, and many more. Career Day is a day that is organized by the school to open up our young minds to what we want to dedicate our lives. Well, and because we don’t have a choice really. We have the choice between working and making the necessary amount of money to “survive” this world, getting by on microwave dinners, fueling the almost broken down Pontiac you own, feeding your cat that is shockingly still alive. Goodness, I could go on but I need the energy I have left for my dead-end job.
Senior students are required to do a “mock” interview and are graded upon how well we do. Juniors job shadow a job closest to their interests, and finally, the sophomores and freshmen take their traditional college visit/tour.
The high school teachers suggest we look nice, decent, and approachable to the Career Day visitors but, like that is going to help. Dressing nice isn’t going to shield the visitors from the reality of what our school students are.
Career Day shouldn’t be a required day to attend; it should be an optional day for the students with the drive and patience. Career Day should be a personal choice of attending or not. We students should be in charge of what career we choose in life. What makes the staff think a room full of visitors is going to guarantee that we all end up in any of those careers or colleges?
Bottom line is Career Day shouldn’t be pushed on the students of St. Ignatius, it should be a choice.
By Briar Ahlborn
No comments:
Post a Comment