professional opportunities & job skills

mike

Interdisciplinarity is used in our everyday life and we might not even know it. I don’t think it is specifically for a job, or school. I think we use it when we leave our houses and venture out into the public every day. I use my interdisciplinarity in my professional life by getting accepted into graduate school. I went to the graduate school and sat down and reviewed my application and displayed my interdisciplinarity right before there very eyes. My professional history has not really been to special. I have not had a “real” job every. I have had plenty of bus boy jobs, waiter, worked at Bills car wash for awhile. I don’t really count these jobs as real jobs, there jobs to hold you over before the real thing comes. My weakest job skills are obviously I am not qualified to do anything. I don’t have a degree yet in college and you can’t do much with a high school degree. My strongest job skill would be me going to graduate school, in order to get that specific job that I will be qualified for. My weak skills is that im not qualified and the only way to improve that would be to stay in school and become a master at my trade. Two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to my chosen career would be business club and chiropractic club. Once I graduate from chiropractic college I plan on starting my own practice so both those clubs are valuable to my success. I did a six month internship in a chiropractors office because I wanted to make 100% sure that this is what I wanted to do with my life. It is very important if you are going to go to graduate school that you shadow what ever the profession is. It could be something you didn’t expect and you might want to change your mind. The six months that I shadowed the chiropractor was the best six months I have had yet and I cant wait to proceed with my education at palmer chiropractic college !


John

I would say that the way that I have used my interdisciplinarity in my professional life is through multitasking. The majority of the jobs that I have held are jobs with in restaurants. I have worked just about every position possible in a restaurant, from a pizza maker to a bartender to a restaurant manager. Most recently while bartending, I find myself in the position where I have to entertain the guests sitting at my bar while still keeping up with the demand of the rest of the restaurant. Often my bar guests would ask me question related to my education and then our conversations would run off into a science related theme. Through this process I would need to access information from different times in my life while maintaining productivity. Also, because my coworkers know that I am also quite knowledgeable when it comes to health code standards persons from the kitchen would seek my advice while working with foods that they weren’t familiar with. This ability is one of my strongest job skills, the ability to do many things at once at a high level of productivity. What my coworkers would probably say is my worst job skill is not relaxing. Often my coworkers call me an over achiever, I don’t like to be idol at work. If there is something to be done, I will do that instead of standing around talking. Personally I don’t see why others don’t have the same level of productivity that I would expect from people while at work. I'm sure that there are things that I could do to improve myself at work, but if my weakest attribute is a high level of productivity I don’t see why I would want to improve on that. I have never participated in any clubs or organizations nor have I ever done any internships, but I believe that programs such as Junior Achievement are a great opportunity to gain a little experience in the education field. Junior Achievement is also a great way to get to know teachers that you could ask questions about a future career in education.