As Jennifer Sees It

Undecided Life

For lack of a better day I am going to pick December 31st 2005 as the day I finally (and I do mean finally) graduation from University. That’s right in 94 days I’ll be the proud owner of Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Co-op) from the University of Alberta with a Major in Human Resource Management.

For those who have known me throughout my time in University I think best understand what an accomplishment it was for me to complete this. For those who haven’t let me take you on a little journey of Jennifer’s Undecided life.

I enter my first year of Post-Secondary with a small dream of maybe becoming a teacher. Focus on Elementary Education with a Minor in Special Ed. Why? I had mentioned this to some people in High School and they all thought I would be good at it. So would I be? Well that I cannot answer. For personal reasons, although I think there is no better way to spends ones life then working with kids who need help most, I determined that I would not be the best person for this. So I thought well I’ll just do a general arts degree; with a major in the social sciences area. Though I have been called far to practical to pick Arts as my degree. So I end up in Business.

Marketing, yes I’ll major in marketing. Umm after taking a few classes I realize I am not a marketer. OK so I’m really good at finance that must be the route I should take. Maybe I’ll double major in Accounting and get my CA and well I’ll be set for life. I soon learned after my first Co-op placement I like to be around people far to much to become an Accountant or work in any job where you work with numbers instead of people.

Human Resources seemed to be the natural choice. It should have been the choice from the beginning. All the signs were there. I even took the Meyers Briggs test and it told me I was Ideally suited for a career in Human Resources. I convinced my self that I was just going to finance and I would work my way up into to a job where I would work with people anyways. So after wasting a good amount of time in University I settled on a degree. Now that I am going to get it soon I still am undecided on the right path to start out on in this field.
For once I have say that I do know where I want to end up. Corporate training, the ideal job: Professional Life Coach. Though I was informed by a former associate of mine that no businessman is going to listen to a 25 year old who just graduated. I said don’t worry I’m only 22 :).

posted by HappyOne @ 3:33 PM