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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #45 on: March 12, 2019, 05:14:44 pm »
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Growing up, I wanted to be a teacher. I absolutely loved pretending to teach my toys throughout primary school and felt inspired by my teachers who were passionate and dedicated about teaching and their teaching area(s).
Quite a few of my family members are graphic designers, so I was introduced to Illustrator in mid primary school which sparked my interest in that field - but it's more of a hobby to me now.

At the moment, I'm not dead set on a certain career but I want to do something that involves education, science, and making an impact on peoples' lives (which can occur in many careers). Also, train driving sounds like something to consider. :)


Edit: also wanted to be a spy/detective haha
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #46 on: March 12, 2019, 05:55:50 pm »
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When I grow up and be a big boy, I want to be a teacher. :)

I have always wanted to be a teacher, just have been shifting from primary and secondary over and over. Ended up with secondary, purely because I can get the adult environment as well as the 'let me act like im 12 again' environment (I'm currently teaching on a junior campus so my entire role at the moment is isolated to 11-15 year olds). I have a full degree in IT so my thinking was also if I went into primary i'd be flushing my knowledge down the drain. Meh, might be a gloom view but it's not necessarily false. Also was a teaching associate/tutor/demonstrator at uni level so I also got a taste of uni lecturing and in the end I just saw how sad (emotional) the computer science lecturers were and I wanted to run.

I toyed with the idea of a career in IT at some point due to the financial incentive but in the end the will to be happy over the $$$, was the winner. Don't regret my decision either. If I had one bit of advice to anybody going into uni and choosing a pathway for their future.... happiness over all else. Do what you want to do and don't let prestige/ego/expectation/etc. get in the way of it. Life's too short.
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #47 on: March 12, 2019, 06:33:13 pm »
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I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a kid, so my very first ambition was to become a doctor and do what they did. I kept this ideal until I was about 18, when I started to have doubts.

Nowadays, I'm split, but I'm hoping I'll have an answer by the end of next year. My options are:

Path 1) Medicine. No idea what kind but hey, it seems interesting af, instead of putting 'Mr' when I sign up for Beanie Baby forums I can put 'Dr', and it opens up opportunities into education or research. So I suppose this path includes medical research -- even if I don't end up with a professional med degree. I'm just not sure if I'd like to dedicate the immense amounts of effort and time into pursuing this.

Path 2) Electrician. I love working with my hands and it's some pretty interesting shit. Electrotechnology is probably the most conceptually complex trade, and it allows the most opportunities to go further and specialise. I suppose the biggest issue is the effect it'd have on my body, as a lot of tradies damage their bodies as they get to middle-age, which isn't fun.

Path 3) Education. My Physics teacher was one of the most profoundly influential person on me as a teen, and certainly helped put my life onto a better path, so I know it's a super critical time period for young people. I also used to host revision discussion thingos in Yr 12 haha, and helping a group of people learn a concept was super satisfying. Being a Science teacher would be swell.
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #48 on: March 12, 2019, 06:55:40 pm »
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I think the first career option I thought of was becoming a scientist. There wasn’t really a specific field that I was leaning towards but I enjoyed science class back in primary school and thought that would be a good option for a career.

I then suddenly did a 360 and planned on becoming a fashion designer. I was obsessed matching up clothes and designing them. I even remember buying a design kit when I was 11 and sewed little cute dresses.

High school hits and I suddenly wanted to become a Youtuber. I looked at it as an option since I watched alot of Youtubers at that time and thought it was an easy way to make money. I pretended to make vlogs. Good thing I have deleted all those vlogs because those would’ve been so cringe to watch aha.

It was in Year 8 when we got asked to make a film for our English assignment and thought that was cool. I always had filmmaking as a backup as a career option since I wanted to explore more job options before I hit university.

My obsession with Law & Order: SVU as well as my involvement with Mock Trial at school made me want to become a lawyer. It was so cool seeing the ADA’s on the show defending innocent people. It felt good having to present facts on the mock trial stand. I was going to do Legal Studies in Year 11 but the teacher who taught it was so bad at advertising it (kept saying that it’s not like tv and said there was a lot of readings to do) and that put me off from wanting to become a lawyer. Plus the ATAR scared me so I looked away. I also wanted to become a criminal detective because of SVU but I realised how unfit I am for the role so I decided not to pursue that career.

When I joined ATAR Notes back in 2017 and started answering questions, it allowed me to build self confidence and teach people in real life. I had fun teaching my classmates. My art teacher inspired me to want to teach other students as well. Being an art teacher was one of my career options. I do intend on becoming an art teacher one day. Perhaps when I’m 50 when I’m old and wise aha. My art teacher also worked at the local art gallery as well as an educator. Think I would like to do that as well.

It was around Year 11 when I wanted to pursue a career in film. It hits me in Year 11 when I did a mini film course and I’m like “dayum that was fun. No way in hell do I want to do a career that involved so much research and readings and whatnot”. Plus it was a creative career that involved technology. I’m not exactly pursuing fine arts. But I’m not pursuing a science/IT career. It was deadset in the middle. I’ve consistently been editing films since I was in Year 8 so my heart was set on becoming a film editor.

After first year of film school, I now realised that I don’t want to become a film editor. I still want to edit but I want to edit advertisements, promotional videos, lookbooks, reality tv, etc. I’m much more attracted towards the non fiction side of the screen industry then the fiction side. I literally started second year yesterday and we had a super cool lecture about non fiction content and that gave me reassurance that I do want to work in non fiction. I’ve also grown to love producing films as well because there’s something about filling out paperwork, sorting out the logistics of things and having the final say in things really appeal to me. It’s refreshing not working on the creative aspects of film so producing is another route I would like to pursue.
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #49 on: March 12, 2019, 07:06:10 pm »
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Nice one - which lectures? :)

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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #50 on: March 12, 2019, 08:14:04 pm »
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Growing up, I always wanted to be a mailman or milkman (do they even exist in aus?)
I then transitioned to wanting to be an animator/cartoonist
I currently have my eyes on secondary teaching for science (primarily biology)  ;D

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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #51 on: March 25, 2019, 07:16:49 pm »
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When I was younger I wanted to be a primary school teacher.
When I was 6 I wanted to be a race car driver and a mechanic.
When I was 12 I wanted to be an actress.
When i was 13 I wanted to fly jets in the Air Force.
Since I was 15 I wanted to be a paramedic or a Outdoor Educator (Did work experience at Lord Somers Camp)

Over the past year I've considered going into the Audio Visual industry as a Lighting/Sound Tech as I've got experience from working paid gigs and and volunteer and I've really enjoyed it...Apart from the sexism I've gotten for being the only local female technician which is so frusturating and the pessimist in me is waiting for the day I get turned down a job cause I'm female
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Back with the paramedic thing I've been volunteering with VICSES for just over a year and a half and I enjoy serving the community so that what was led me to thinking I could be a paramedic and the more I looked into it the more interested I became and that ideas stuck with me since.
Like I'm heading with idea so far cause out of all my ideas it requires the highest ATAR (85+) but i really don't know where I'm going  ???
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #52 on: March 25, 2019, 07:37:55 pm »
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The earliest career aspiration I can remember was wanting to be a detective, because TV shows. There was a few years where I wanted to be a pilot - probably because I didn't go on a plane until I was 12 but they were always flying overhead so I was quite fascinated. Would still love to get a pilots license one day, when I'm much richer than I am now.

Obviously the whole love-of-animals-and-water thing has always been there, but I don't think I ever seriously considered it as a career when I was a kid. The love for fishies and biology really became a thing around year 10. Now I'm aiming for something marine biology related, but that's a bit of a niche area to be trying to find a job in, so more generally something to do with environmental science. Also still studying human biology, haven't quite decided if i'm just doing it for interests sake or if I'll end up doing something with it in the future.
My SciCom tutor is a marine scientist who does work to change people's behaviour in order to help protect marine species/coastal environments, and I really want to know more about his job haha.
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #53 on: March 26, 2019, 09:04:59 am »
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PROMPT: Do you have any fears? If so, what?

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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: what are your fears?]
« Reply #54 on: March 26, 2019, 04:12:01 pm »
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PROMPT: Do you have any fears? If so, what?
I have two main fears!
Hospitals (and medical appts) and dogs.

Hospitals and med appts as I spent a LOT of time in and out of doctors clinics and hospitals when I was little when mum was sick (cancer) and it's scary when you're a little kiddo and you don't know if mum's coming home and the doctors and nurses were scary af :')

Dogs because my dick of an uncle scared me with one when I was younger and I've been scared of them since. Not even working with them has knocked it out of me :')
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« Reply #55 on: March 26, 2019, 04:14:02 pm »
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: careers aspirations]
« Reply #56 on: March 26, 2019, 04:44:03 pm »
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PROMPT: Do you have any fears? If so, what?

Fear of being alone/abandonment
Dad left when I was 5 (might be part of the reason) and now I'm terrified of being alone or people leaving   :-\
Also bugs - not bugs in general but rather when theres loads of them...hate them crawling near/on me or stepping on them they just a lil gross
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: what are your fears?]
« Reply #57 on: March 26, 2019, 04:45:31 pm »
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^Re: dogs, is that with all dogs, or a particular type mostly?
Pretty much all dogs, especially if they're near me and are off-leash 😅
There are some special cases, but not many 😅
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: what are your fears?]
« Reply #58 on: March 26, 2019, 04:56:25 pm »
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My biggest fear would be the fear of not being stupid/the fear of making a fool out of myself.

Any group I am apart of socially I always question whether I actually belong and whether I am accepted. Even long time friends and groups I have been apart of for a long time I am always paranoid that no one is accepting me. Even though their actions say the complete opposite when looked at rationally.
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Re: Get to know you series :) [CURRENTLY: what are your fears?]
« Reply #59 on: March 26, 2019, 06:40:47 pm »
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I think my only real fear is being helpless and/or having to depend on other people.

I'm also terrified of being trapped underwater - I blame my brother for that. When we were little he used to hold foam pool mats over my head and I wasn't strong enough to push them up to breathe. Kind of still related to feeling helpless though. Also anything that stops me from being able to breathe properly makes me panic a lot, but I'd imagine that's somewhat a normal response
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