How can learning from others’ career journeys help us shape our own?

This is a big question, as most driving questions are. In this project we spent the day in the life of a professional of a career we were interested in, to see if we were actually still interested in it afterwards. Luckily for me, I live with someone in the field that I want to go in (roughly). My mum is a nurse practitioner (which you’ll learn more about later), and I have always wanted to go into healthcare of some kind so I was really excited for this opportunity.

These are the big ideas that we set out to accomplish and understand:

Lifelong learning creates career and life opportunities.

Competency

😁 Communicating: I can communicate in appropriate and effective forms.

• Understand how systems are a lifelong process which creates opportunities to reach goals and open new opportunities
• Understand the relationship between career-life roles: post-graduation options, personal passions, work, family, education, volunteerism
• Connect to goals and find work and study which would enhance them
• Learn about support networks for future potential future paths

I can confidently say that I have fully fulfilled all of these goals. I have been researching admission requirements for psychology programs (the specific part of health I’m interested in) since December of 2024 when we did our marketing me project (read about that here). I had already learned all about the paths I was interested in and what it would take to get there in our previous project because I wanted to push myself, and that really paid off in this one. Throughout this project, I kept communicating with my mum and her colleagues at Canopy Health (the clinic where I spent the day). I have lined up more interviews past this project to learn more about the paths I’m interested in, even though it’s not required because this project made me realize how many people are ready to help you if you ask.

Thinking 🧠: Reflecting on Learning

I reflect on my learning to generate new ideas or reinterpret others’ ideas in new ways. I use my thinking and reflection to help me make decisions for my future.

This competency was reflected in both my Smart Brevity note and audio reflection. I used critical thinking to determine what was most important to put into both of my brevity notes so that they maintained detail without being overly long.

These are the brevity notes I created:

https://poets-find-fp9.craft.me/mslXQprQoKC2pZ

https://poets-find-fp9.craft.me/WnzjfCXgzDgSZR

I also created an audio reflection and will post it here as soon as it has been added to Spotify.

This reflection really pushed me. I will be the first to admit that audio is not my favourite format. I would choose to write 10 scripts over recording 1 five-minute podcast any day, but I am also someone who cares about doing well in school. This means that even though I hate editing audio you can bet that I will put everything I have into that reflection if necessary. I am very proud of the work I created, the audio is crisp, and the story makes sense and is engaging. I think this is my best work with audio editing yet and hope to build on this skill in our new maker project which is all about podcasts. Yay…….

Last of all my VMV reflection. 

I touched on almost everything in my last humanities post, and since we did these projects simultaneously, all of the things I reflected on about self-regulation and being engaged in the class ( I love English class and this project was so customizable how could I not be reliably actively engaged???). The one point I dont think I have touched on yet is these posts. 

Over this past year, I have seen the quality of my posts improve drastically. I changed how I write these posts in the first semester and now find my progress across projects easier to track now. This makes sure that I dont get stuck on things as often. I am very proud of this progress, and as a result of if blog posts are now something I look forward to immensely. 

Thank you so much for reading, until next time,

Neko