Social Worker

Social Worker

Duties and Responsibilities:

Social Workers help people and their families modify to problems in their lives such as serious illness, child abuse, substance abuse, mental illness, handicaps, juvenile crime, and anti-social behavior. They must often help people accept situations that cannot be changed. They frequently work with underclass, including the homeless. Most social workers work for the government in offices, hospitals, clinics, prisons, or the courts. Some of them also work in nursing homes, group homes, schools, or businesses. They tend to have a lot of duties, with it being interviewing and counseling the individual and groups.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$42,000

Educational Requirements:

To prepare for a career in social work you should take challenging high school courses especially in English, science, and math.  Some organizations may allow a social worker to practice with a bachelor's degree in social work positions require a graduate degree.  Clinical positions require additional licensing after the completion of one or two year supervised internships.

                          

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But, conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I think that the statement is trying to say that sometimes in life we do have to take risks that are not always in our comfort zone but we have to take them because we know that it is the right thing to do because our mind is telling us that it is the right thing to do. We tend to stay in our little groups where we do not know what happens outside of our group especially in high school because we are so caught up in not trying to ruin our high school experience that we take the easy way out and not take the risks that we should have taken and then we end up regretting the things that we did not do or the things we did not accomplish because we were so busy being scared to try new things and to follow our conscience.  

                       

Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician

Duties and Responsibility:

Pharmacist Technicians work in pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist. Their main obligation is filling treatments according to doctors’ orders f or patients. The technicians measure out correct amounts of medication from larger containers to treatment size containers. In addition they add drugs to intravenous solutions.  All of their prescription filling work is rechecked by a pharmacist before medications are dispensed to patients or customers.  Other duties of pharmacy technicians are:

Checking registers and ordering supplies.

Keeping the pharmacy work area clean.

They help fill out protection forms.

Pharmacy technicians work in retail pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and some large business complexes.

Average Salary:  $15,000 - $25,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take math, science (especially chemistry), and typing courses in high school.

A high school diploma is usually required to begin pharmacy technician training.  Two year courses leading to certificates are available at most community colleges.  Six month programs are offered at privately operated schools.

I do not think that I would like to become a Pharmacy Technician because  I want to be able to work directly with patients. 

                                 

Ophthalmic Technician

Ophthalmic Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

They are also known as technologists help ophthalmologist, they collect data and measurements to allow the correct diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases and problems. They usually work at hospitals, clinics, or for a private ophthalmic clinic. They perform simple eye exams, they assist in eye surgery, and they explain the diagnostic and the procedure to the patients.

Average Salary: $14,000- $25,000

Educational Requirements:  

To become an Ophthalmic Technician you will need a high school diploma or a GED certificate. After you have either one of these you need to attend a two year college prior to beginning ophthalmic training programs, the programs last very little but can last up to two years.

I do not wish to become this because I feel that I might need something more challenging not something that takes only a little of time to complete.

                              

Student Success Statement

         Student Success Statement

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

                                                                                                -Michael Phelps

       This quote to me means that the more you dream about what you want to become and what you want to do with your life the more likely you can achieve it. You have to want and have big dreams in order to make something of your life. If you do not have dreams and goals then what do you want to work for and what do you want your life to become? Everyone needs dreams in order to push yourself into doing what you most want to do or what you most desire. My goal is to become a registered nurse and I have those dreams in my head and I think about them every day and  when I do think about them I think I need to push myself to my extreme limit in order for that to come true. This week are finals and this the week that counts and the week that I need to push myself the most in order to achieve my dreams and aspirations. Without any dreams or goals where are you going in life, where is your mind when it wants to be pushed into doing something bigger and better. Your mind and your heart tell you what to do but you need to go for those dreams. Like Phelps says you cannot put a limit to your dreams you just can’t go for it and do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or that you won’t be able to do it. Just do it and prove all of those people wrong that they were wrong about you and you proved them wrong. Live your life to your fullest dreams.