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Blake Moran

Professor Calhoun

ENG 1201

17 March 2020

Literature Review

What is the best path to finding a career you would like? Many people ask themselves

this at some point in their lives which shows the importance of understanding this question. A

career is an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with

opportunities for progress. Although finding a career comes with many difficulties especially

narrowing it down to the overall factor for people, having a career you enjoy. Going into these

next steps in my own life I am wondering the same things which are why this question is of

importance to me. After examining sources from all over I have come to the conclusion to cover

the three main parts for answering this question in-depth and for everyone to relate on their own

level. The key points to consider when answering this question is your interest, your education,

and your work experience

Understanding the key points is how to find your career especially a career you like.

First, and I feel most importantly is your interests and how you can connect what you like or

what you do often to different occupations around the world. Second, the education you obtain is

of high importance to find that career you are working to. Lastly, at some point work experience

for that job will come into effect and a great way of getting your dream job is to be prepared and

experience goes hand in hand with being prepared for something. In my life answering this

question is very important to me to continue on in my next steps in life. Therefore I have

considered that my interests are in the military and a mechanical or hand on occupation. In the
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end, my dream job is to be a pilot so the difficulty is trying to combine all my interests into a

career. I decided that to find a career in my interest I would have to get a degree based

mechanically and mechanical engineering would be the best for that and minoring in Aerospace

would cover my interest as a pilot. The work experience I could get for this career would be very

beneficial and after reviewing options I have come to the conclusion that an internship or co-op

would be the best to get work experience.

The history of the search for a career goes back a long time ago, back when we first

needed to earn money to survive. Over the years the types of interest have changed due to many

factors. The improvements in technology, the population of people, and the fad or style at that

time all had effects on what interest people had for a career in history. Education has also

changed majorly, our education systems have been one of the biggest improvements in history

for K-12 schooling to college institutions. The types of education offered are a major factor in

choosing where you learn. Just as the other key points have changed over history so has the work

experiences that are offered. The internships and co-op have immensely been improved and have

been able to provide major changes to corporations, companies, and your future careers

A disagreement I found between my sources was that in the “Careers need their on and

off ramps” the source says, "How can we provide people with opportunities to speed their

careers up again after a period where they have slowed down?" and in "The Education System

Should Emphasize Work Skills." by Pamela Emanoil and it says, “West Virginia has used

school-to-work as its template something that establishes or serves as a pattern”. These two

sources I feel are disagreeing about whether you can only find one dream career. In “Careers

need their on and off ramps” it is saying that you can find another dream career after you have

already found on as it is almost an on and off-ramp. Although in "The Education System Should
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Emphasize Work Skills." they are saying that school and work correlate together. I felt this

means that by obtaining educations you are only designated to one career field, not for many. In

conclusion, I feel that this is a disagreement when it comes to people reading these sources trying

to find a dream career.

The purpose of this question is to help anyone who is in the need of a career that they

love which is one of the most important things in life and a necessity for most. Many

misconceptions for finding a career is that you can’t get any career you want, theirs no way to

ding a career you love, or that you don’t need the last two key points to find a career with your

preferences. These are misconceptions because all of these key points are possible ways of

answering the question. Using the key points and the sources show credibilities throughout the

history that there are ways of finding the career you want. I am a strong believer that you can

obtain anything you want as long as you work hard enough and that is the overall answer to the

question, what is the best path to finding a career you would like?

Work Cited

BRAY, NATHANIEL J. "Chief Academic Affairs Officers, College and University."

Encyclopedia of Education, edited by James W. Guthrie, 2nd ed., vol. 1, Macmillan

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