personal paper i wrote while not sleeping for 3 days drunk and at a party and i got an A on it
This is a personal paper where you’ve asked myself along with my fellow classmates to focus our “attention on personal traits and experiences that will either help or hinder” our capacity to work with children. Personally I’m really good with kids, just as long as they aren’t mine. I seem to have a good bond with most of the kids that I interact with. I guess it’s because I’m “a big kid” or so my roommate once described me to my current supervisors at Community Care Services. I work with kids, in all three of my “jobs”, Community Care Services, is an after school program for mentally disturbed children, I’ve been going there for 6 months now, and I’ve built a strong relationship with several of the children who attend there. Unfortunately that isn’t a facility that I see myself working for much longer or at the very least not as often.
Where I am in relation to my life goals, is behind where I want to be, and ahead of where I should be. Or at least that’s how I feel most of the time. Everything I want to do I can’t because I need a degree. While all the things I have done I did a long time ago. In a sigh of relief I think to myself “Such is life.” Like I mentioned before I have three “jobs” that I’m in close contact with children, one at Community Care Services, the second I’m a mentor for a child at Big Friends/ Little Friends. I’ve just started mentoring him, but my supervisor says I’m doing “a great job.” I used to be a peer mediator for my church group when I was younger for a few months. However the job that actually pays the bills is at Toys R Us, where I’m the assistant director of human recourses, but once I graduate in May I get a promotion to human recourses department supervisor. It’s not exactly what I want in my life, but its experience in a business setting. I’m thinking for my internship for my counseling three class, I’m going to try to find a place in an private practice or at least in a actual clinic.
Eventually I want to have my own private practice, helping both children and adolescents. I passionately want to do this for two reasons, one when I was younger I was misdiagnosed with ADHD, and I don’t want children to go through the same things I did. For example go to “special classes” and take medications that I didn’t need. My classmates were anything but generous about my “disorder.” They knew I was different, and they reminded me of it daily. But I feel I’m a better person because of it. The second reason is because a really good friend of mine, Tom Robbins, committed suicide on May 22nd 2002. That was a massive turning point in my life. He told me, on the day he committed, that I was the only person he could talk to, but he never told me he was upset, or depressed, nothing. After that I was a wreck, for a long time. Fell into the wrong crowd and got into trouble. But then in junior year of high school, I realized what I could do. I want to help, kids, teens, so that they won’t get to the point of suicide. And in case I wasn’t there to help those unfortunate ones, I’ll be there for the ones “left behind,” because I know what it feels like to loose a friend. Recently there was a girl who committed suicide on campus, I was told from drug-overdose, but I’m not sure how true that is. She was a friend of a friend, and that night when she did die, I was so upset, because I could have done something to prevent it, even though I’ve never met her before. So now I’m comforting my friends that did know her.
Like I said before I want to have my own practice, I figure, I’d get a MA, and a Psy. D. and I should be good. I’ve still got a lot to learn and develop my skills more. I don’t know if I would be more helpful as a high school psychologist or counselor, than a private practice. I could probably do both with a Psy. D. I just have to pace myself right. I know I definitely want to be a psychologist over a psychiatrist, because I don’t believe too much in the power of pills. Granted some disorders benefit from medications.
Some other personal traits and experiences that will either help or hinder my capacity to work with children, is that I’m extremely easy-going, I was actually voted one of the most easy-going kids in high school, in a school of five thousand kids that’s saying something. I’ve also been told that my overall nature, meaning, my sense of humor, and style, is “intensely non-judgmental.”
Something I think would probably help my career is my extensive knowledge of comic books, television shows, and video games. It helps when there is an argument about something.
I’m not sure what else I should talk about, so I’m just going to end it by recapping. I’m good with kids; I have some experience with kids with disorders, and mentoring, meditating children. I feel like I’m deeply and passionately motivated to do everything I can for anyone that needs help. My overall temperament is easy-going and non-judgmental. I’m learning extensive insider knowledge in the field of psychology. Also I have a useful understanding of “childish” things like comic books, television shows, and video games.
Where I am in relation to my life goals, is behind where I want to be, and ahead of where I should be. Or at least that’s how I feel most of the time. Everything I want to do I can’t because I need a degree. While all the things I have done I did a long time ago. In a sigh of relief I think to myself “Such is life.” Like I mentioned before I have three “jobs” that I’m in close contact with children, one at Community Care Services, the second I’m a mentor for a child at Big Friends/ Little Friends. I’ve just started mentoring him, but my supervisor says I’m doing “a great job.” I used to be a peer mediator for my church group when I was younger for a few months. However the job that actually pays the bills is at Toys R Us, where I’m the assistant director of human recourses, but once I graduate in May I get a promotion to human recourses department supervisor. It’s not exactly what I want in my life, but its experience in a business setting. I’m thinking for my internship for my counseling three class, I’m going to try to find a place in an private practice or at least in a actual clinic.
Eventually I want to have my own private practice, helping both children and adolescents. I passionately want to do this for two reasons, one when I was younger I was misdiagnosed with ADHD, and I don’t want children to go through the same things I did. For example go to “special classes” and take medications that I didn’t need. My classmates were anything but generous about my “disorder.” They knew I was different, and they reminded me of it daily. But I feel I’m a better person because of it. The second reason is because a really good friend of mine, Tom Robbins, committed suicide on May 22nd 2002. That was a massive turning point in my life. He told me, on the day he committed, that I was the only person he could talk to, but he never told me he was upset, or depressed, nothing. After that I was a wreck, for a long time. Fell into the wrong crowd and got into trouble. But then in junior year of high school, I realized what I could do. I want to help, kids, teens, so that they won’t get to the point of suicide. And in case I wasn’t there to help those unfortunate ones, I’ll be there for the ones “left behind,” because I know what it feels like to loose a friend. Recently there was a girl who committed suicide on campus, I was told from drug-overdose, but I’m not sure how true that is. She was a friend of a friend, and that night when she did die, I was so upset, because I could have done something to prevent it, even though I’ve never met her before. So now I’m comforting my friends that did know her.
Like I said before I want to have my own practice, I figure, I’d get a MA, and a Psy. D. and I should be good. I’ve still got a lot to learn and develop my skills more. I don’t know if I would be more helpful as a high school psychologist or counselor, than a private practice. I could probably do both with a Psy. D. I just have to pace myself right. I know I definitely want to be a psychologist over a psychiatrist, because I don’t believe too much in the power of pills. Granted some disorders benefit from medications.
Some other personal traits and experiences that will either help or hinder my capacity to work with children, is that I’m extremely easy-going, I was actually voted one of the most easy-going kids in high school, in a school of five thousand kids that’s saying something. I’ve also been told that my overall nature, meaning, my sense of humor, and style, is “intensely non-judgmental.”
Something I think would probably help my career is my extensive knowledge of comic books, television shows, and video games. It helps when there is an argument about something.
I’m not sure what else I should talk about, so I’m just going to end it by recapping. I’m good with kids; I have some experience with kids with disorders, and mentoring, meditating children. I feel like I’m deeply and passionately motivated to do everything I can for anyone that needs help. My overall temperament is easy-going and non-judgmental. I’m learning extensive insider knowledge in the field of psychology. Also I have a useful understanding of “childish” things like comic books, television shows, and video games.