The document discusses several potential career paths that the author is considering, including forensic scientist, trial lawyer, anesthesiologist, geneticist, mental health counselor, and editor. For each career, the author analyzes how the job duties align with their interests, skills, values around work-life balance and family, and outlook for the field. Overall, the author is keeping an open mind about their options and recognizes they have time before needing to decide on a specific career path.

1. My Top careers
By Lindsey O’Brien
(In no particular order)

2. Lifestyle
Choices
• I like working with people
• I have decided that I want to
be able to have a family and
be there for him, and have a
full-time career.
• Commuting to the city daily
or very often is not
Work
something I want to do for Values
my career.
• I value being treated as a
respected and substantial
employee. • I could try out my own
ideas.
• I make use of my
abilities.
• I would be treated
fairly by the company.
Learning • My job provides
Styles steady employment.
I learn by seeing and doing or • I would never be
I am a Visual pressured to do things
Learner! copying. My memory is very
good and when I take tests, I that go again my
can see the textbook in my sense of right or
head. I remember the way that wrong.
things were written or done in • I could make decisions
order to utilize this for my own on my own and be
needs. recognized for it.
• I would rather not be
alone at work, all the
time.

3. Unique qualities:
• Skilled debater
• Very critical eye
• Analytical
• Good memory
• Very good at problem-
solving
Foundation blocks:
• High school education, up
to 10th grade, basic core
classes
• 4 years of Italian language
education
• Music for 3 years, in the
Oboe
I hope to achieve foundation
blocks in the areas of
Psychology and Forensic
Science, before leaving high
school.

4. Placement Tests and My Results
• Education and I = Investigative
Training
• Hospitality and A = Artistic
Tourism
S = Social
• Law, Public
Safety, Correct
ions, and
Security

5. Forensic Science Technician
This career is described as: Someone who can
collect, identify, classify, and analyze physical evidence related to criminal
investigations. Perform tests on weapons or substances, such as
fiber, hair, and tissue to determine significance to investigation. May
testify as expert witnesses on evidence or crime laboratory techniques.
May serve as specialists in area of expertise, such as
ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting, or biochemistry.
To me, this career is beyond interesting and it taps into my
interest in science. I am a very good student at biology and I genuinely
enjoy the subject, however I will not know how well I do in Forensic
Science until next year. If I do as well as Biology, and I enjoy it as much
as I expect to, this career may be for me. Working with machinery and
hard equipment is no problem for me, after I learn. Crime scene
investigation is also a huge “plus” for me, as would testifying in court. Not
only does it apply heavily to my interest, but it would allow me to work
with people and still have my own individual work. As long as I can be
home to get my children off the bus at the end of the day, I would love this
career. Bring it on.

6. Lawyers represent clients in criminal and
civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal
documents, or manage or advise clients on legal
transactions. May specialize in a single area or may
practice broadly in many areas of law. This career
involves actually carrying out a trial in front of a jury and
judge, in defendant of your client’s area of the argument.
Being in a court room and debating on a Trial Lawyer
regular basis is a dream to me. I love the entire court
system and its functions, while this career really works
with my skillsets as well. I am very analytical and a quick
thinker, both of which is required for a trial lawyer. There
are many branches the lawyers are divided into, yet I find
myself leaning toward Criminal Law. It would give me lots
of variation in my work while also upholding my desire to
work with people, and independently. The only downside
to this career is that I am hesitant to go to Law school.
Something about it seems very weary to me; when I look
at the title of “Trial Lawyer” I am left with a blank page.

7. Anesthesiologist
Administer anesthetics to patients
for, during, or after surgeries. These doctors play an
integral role in keeping patients alive, and
asleep, during surgery no matter how long it may
take. Their handsome paychecks reflect the
responsibility and risk involved in their jobs. You
don’t often hear about Anesthesiologists making
deathly mistakes, and with the correct schooling it
can be prevented. That does not worry me.
This entire career really has gotten me
thinking, and heavily considering. Doctoral Level
degree is required and I do not mind going to school
that long at all. I have never considered this career
so I am unsure if it is a perfect fit, yet the work
seems very interesting. Personally, I have had very
limited experience with anesthetics being
administered to myself. From outside sources, I
know that having this as my career is very
impressive and that is definitely important to me. It is
not as important as the fact that I need this career to
match my skills and values. It seems that I would be
able to have a family and this is a huge plus.
Schooling would be long, but I do not mind going to
school for this. But, this career may be too “big” for
me.

8. Geneticists are the people who do tests on individuals carrying a genetic
disorder and they test them in order to make discoveries and lab advances. They
research and study the inheritance of traits at the molecular, organism or population
level, also may evaluate or treat patients with genetic disorders. Requires a doctoral
or professional degree and usually receives $70,790 annually for pay. This career
and the genetics field, as a whole, are exploding as technology advances everyday.
Geneticist
The mere title of this job got me immediately interested: therefore, I looked further into
it and found it to be a career in which I would enjoy doing on a daily basis. In biology class, I highly
enjoy doing these labs and being able to interpret data for myself is a skill I possess. Going to
college and further schooling for genetics would be very possible and enjoyable for me, along with
finding employment. This career involves heavy attention to detail; I have always possessed this
and use it with everything I do. More than interest, the job skills and values are all matched to my
personal skills and values. This information gives me a positive outlook on the career. It seems
that I would be able to have a family at home and go to work every morning as well, something
crucial to my career choice. This job had a Bright Outlook mark, and this makes me feel a lot better
about it due to the fact that job security is very important to me. Working in a lab every
day, analyzing data, advising patients, and dealing with biology are all things I could see myself
doing when I get older.

9. Mental Health Counselor
Mental Health Counselors counsel with emphasis on prevention. They work with individuals
and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health. May help individuals deal with issues
associated with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; stress
management; self-esteem; and aging. They also help patients with expressing their feelings and
discussing what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their
relationships, assessing patients for risk of suicide attempts, and guide clients in the development of
skills or strategies for dealing with their problems.
This job seems to be very reoccurring for me, during my placement tests, and I can’t help but
look into it. I really do enjoy helping people with mental issues, I already do so today. I like getting to
know someone and adapting to the way that they think and how they respond to things I say. I am very
good at adapting to people’s different situations and this career seems to be a very good fit for me as an
individual. Have the type of personality that I do not filter out things that I am thinking, in a positive way.
If I feel that you are nervous or holding something in, I am not afraid to put it out there that I see it in you.
It is a lot easier to get everything out in the open and really help people in coping with their problems and
living happier lives. Psychology is a huge interest to me and this career would uphold my values and
major interests. I look at “Mental Health Counselors” and the cogs start turning.

10. As an editor, it is required that, on a daily
basis, you use analytical thinking and critical views in
order to edit someone else’s work. Editors have
significant input in the final product. They analyze work
for quality of content, grammatical correctness, and
stylistic consistency. It also involves meeting daily with
others to work on how a passage will be directed to an
audience and so on. People who wish to progress in
this field nearly always read manuscripts in their spare
time or stay late to do extra work.
The present and future of editing really is
endless. Authors would work with printers and sell their
work to booksellers, who soon realized that they
needed someone in between to assure the quality of
the product. Technology has affected and will continue
to affect the field of publishing. More written work is
Editor produced each day in the United States than was
produced in the world before 1700. Material online will
continue to need editing, as well. The position of editor
should remain, but the skillsets needed will change.
The quality of life involves some late-night
work within the first few years, yet seems to pay off at
the ten year mark. By ten years, an editor becomes
substantial in the writing world. All through
networking, by ten years an editor can really explode
in the field.
Editing has always been a strong suit of
mine and having an analytical eye is too. This does not
directly refer to book editors. I could get a degree and
then go on to edit magazine, or blogs, or any source of
writing. Could I successfully raise a family? Possibly.
Does this meet my values of having individual work
and working with people? Yes. This career is endless
and a solid possibility.

11. In Summary…
I do not need to decide what career I would like, yet.
I HAVE TIME

12. To Conclude: