Gaganjit Kaur
Professor Treiser
Cep121.2273
October25, 2007
Focus Career
There are many people who come to college undecided and there are
some who are not sure about their major. When I came to LaGuardia
community college I was not sure about my major. I took sciences,
mathematics, economics and accounting courses in high school so I get some
idea about my interest. Now I am taking Liberal Arts: Mathematics and
Science major because I am interested in mathematics and sciences. Also, I
want to do something in one of these subjects so I decided to study
Pharmacy.
Now, when I took the exam on focus career website it showed me that
my strongest orientation is social. I don't agree with these results because
they don't ask you enough question to find out about my interest. They ask
me about forty questions and based on that they gave me the results.
I don't agree with my result even though my second strongest
orientation is Analytic/Research which I expect it to be my first choice. And
because they only ask you forty question so it's not a wise decision to decide
a career base on these results. In addition, there were some words in the
questions that I didn't understand and I was unsure about. Also, it was hard
for me to decide whether I like to help others in business matters when I
never experienced it.
Finally I strongly feel that it might not be a good idea to choose a
major based on just forty questions. It might not be a good decision because
how would I know if I like apple if I never had one. I believe with your
career it is a same thing you can't decide without experiencing it. Once you
experienced it, you will know if you really want to do that in rest of your life.