Reflection 1

Reflected on my own Career Planning and Decision Making process

                                 THE REASONS MOULDING MY CAREER CHOICES

            In these days that I need to decide what I want to be or what I am going to do when I graduate, actually I have to state that I am absolutely perplexed both mentally and emotionally as every new graduate generally is. I am thinking a lot of things as my possible job choices, career plans and of course my own wishes at the same time. On the one hand I want to start my career as an active person/ worker in the field of education as a teacher/ instructor and on the other hand I also want to continue my academic career as a student by applying for MA degree. Still, despite of my indeterminate situation, generally I can say that firstly I want to start my job as a teacher/instructor in a university and meanwhile I want to also start my MA in a suitable university for my department.

            So, as I stated above, first of all I want to work at a university (possibly at preparatory school) as an English instructor. I do not want to work in a state/ private school at first actually because I do not want to go far away/ become estranged to the university environment. By doing so, I think that you remain fresh and young and also university environment will remind me my own wish to be an academician. I am afraid of forgetting about continuing academic career if I start to work in another state/private school. I do not know whether I am right or not but still this is my personal thought. Besides, I want to work at preparatory school because I feel that I am more qualified in teaching preparatory school. In other words, I feel like I am prepared for teaching preparatory school students: I can show my potential there, I can be much more beneficial for those students when we compare with other young learners, adolescents etc. Of course I know that I have taken a lot of courses for teaching young learners, other age groups etc but still I feel more confident when I think to teach in preparatory school. Actually I do not know the exact reason of it but it can be related to the personal imagination, eitherJ.

            Coming to my other wish: I also want to continue my academic career while I am working. I recently want to earn my own money and spend this money while I am getting my own education. I always wanted to continue my own education academically and I really love to learn. I think that if I stop to learn, stop to improve myself, I will be aimless and empty and really I cannot help this situation. Additionally, contributing to the field with the things that you do in behalf of education science, making a name with success is an ultimate goal of my life. I always have dreamed this throughout my life because I absolutely think that education is the threshold for human development and if I continue to academic career, I will have served for this goal.

            All in all, when I graduate, most probably, my first preference will be to work in preparatory schools of the universities so I will apply almost all universities in order to work. In this process, I will also apply for MA programs in the field of linguistics and I will try to arrange myself/ my life according to these two things. I do not know exactly what research assistant do in universities, but I am also thinking to apply for them but I did not dream it from the very beginning of my undergraduate education so I do not know I want it or not. If I am accepted there, I can also work as a research assistant because it will be another choice to work in an academic environment: I think that it can be much more motivating to work in prep school. Although I want to work at prep school, I, of course, will apply for being a teacher at private schools and dershanes but as I stated these will be less preferable for me. I want to go on my career with linguistics because I find it much more attractive than English Language Teaching. For example: cognitive sciences really attracts me, I almost adore to it.  I do not know the exact reason but linguistics remind me mathematics with its rules and I find it entertainingJ. Also, because I hate from literature and think that I am not talented in literature, I do not want to go on in that area. So, firstly linguistics (areas related with human brain, learning styles, situations etc) and secondly ELT (related areas with linguistics) will be my preferences regarding of my academic career. While I am writing this paper, I somehow felt like my dreams have concretized spontaneouslyJ. I hope I can do the things that I wrote in this paper and take a one more pace in my self- actualization process. Thanks