Using My Skills

Select Career: Lawyer

List 5 things about this career that you find appealing.

1. Presenting Ideas and Information in Writing

2. Paying Attention to Detail

3. Problem Solving

4. Prioritizing

5. Persuading

What is the Skills Score that appears beside the career you selected?

Skills Score: A

Look through you responses to the skills that are important for this career and add up the number of responses of each type:

__11__I am highly skilled

__8__I am skilled

__2__I have some skill

__0__I don't have this skill

Write down the three skills to which you answered "I don't have this skill" or "I have some skill." For each skill you wrote down, think of three ways that you can increase your skill.

Handling People Tactfully - Learning to be calmer when handling people.

Decision Making - Learning how to just decide when I have to.

Are you still interested in the career you selected for this activity? Why or why not?

Yes I am because I love arguing and persuading. I would be a good lawyer.

What do you think the difference is between interests and skills?

Interests is what you like doing, when skills is what you're actually good at.

Do you think it is helpful to consider your skills when choosing a career? Why or why not?

It is helpful considering your skills when choosing a career because if you try to be a cartoonist, but stink at drawing, you will lose your job and not get any money.

Career Selector

Career Selector Choice: Dermatologist

Job Description - Dermatologists are physicians who specialize in the care of skin, hair, nails, and "wet skin" areas of the body such as the mouth.
What do people in this career do?

In this career people either work with children or adults. They work in a large hospital and see patients and teach at the same time.
What skills do people in this career have?
It is important to like people for it is a social job. You will have to study many subjects along the way during school and not all of them will be directly related to dermatology. It is also important to have knowledge of skin diseases.

Working Conditions - Most dermatologists work in medical offices, sometimes in group practices with other specialists. Others spend part or all of their time in hospital consultation rooms and other medical facilities.
Where do people in this career work?

They can work in offices, hospitals, or other medical facilities.
What kind of hours do they work? Do they work days, nights, shifts, overtime, how many hours per week or day?

Generally they work a 5-day, 40 to 50 hours a week. They may occasionally work overtime or on weekends to accommodate patients' schedules.

Interview Person Name: Bernice
Day in the Life
Three important work activities this person performs during the day
1. Seeing patients and teaching at the same time.
2. Having medical students watch them as they treat a patient.
3. She writes an article on eczema for a medical journal.
Breakdown of Activities
Three activities this person spends the most time on
1. Seeing Patients
2. Teaching students
3. Writing in her journal
Likes and Dislikes
What does this person like about the job?

She likes being with people, to see about 30 to 50 children a day and their parents.
What does this person dislike about the job?

The enormous demands that can be placed on one when you're in a specialized area like she is.

What are three things that you think are good about this job?
1. The paycheck
2. Being with children and being able to help them
3. Working to find an answer to a disease, because it's kind of a detective work
What are three things you think are bad about this job?
1. You spend 12 years in school
2. You may spend a lot of time in the hospital
3. You may have to give people bad news, like telling a young person that he's got skin cancer
Could you see yourself doing this job in the future? Why or why not?

No I couldn't see myself doing this job in the future because it isn't really something I might do.

Career Ideas

Select career of your choice and write three things you think you would like about this career.

Career: Doctor

1. Helping people

2. Looking after my patients

3. The paycheck

Is the career you selected on the list of careers from the Career Matchmaker results?

No the career I have chosen is not from the Career Matchmaker results.

What are three aspects of the selected career that you found surprising or unusual about this career? Why?

1. Providing Medical care and treatment to people

2. Being interested in human biology

3. Being responsible for other peoples safety or well-being

How did your career selection choice match up with your interests?

I have always loved helping people, so this career has always been on my mind since I was a little girl. I had always loved pretending to take care of my puppy as if it were a patient.

Do you still think it is a good career choice for you? Why or why not?

I think it is still a good career in some ways. I have always wanted to be a doctor, so it is already molded into my mind. But now that I read more about it, maybe I want to specialize in something in the Medical Field.

Do you think interests are important for a career choice? Why or why not?

Interests are very important for a career choice because I believe a person cannot work at a job that they hate doing. If you want to be a painter, but you are working as a garbage man, why shouldn't your quit and change your job? If you interested in something, then try a job that consists of similar interests you have.

Career Matchmaker

First Career: Massage Therapist

Suitable For You
What are the Central Aspects of this career?

• Learning new hands-on skills
• Being interested in human biology

What are the Central and Secondary Aspects to which you answered Like or Like Very Much?

• Learning new hands-on skills
• Being interested in human biology
• Providing medical care and treatment to people
• Considering the feelings, views or behavior of others
• Providing a service to members of the public (e.g. customers, patients)
• Working with people with physical abilities

Which Aspects did you answer Dislike or Dislike Very Much to?

• Being physically active and on your feet (Does not Matter)

Top Ten Career: Judge
Suitable For You
Write down the Central and Secondary Aspects to which you answered Like or Like Very Much.

• Being interested in law
• Presenting ideas and information in writing
• Explaining ideas and information to people
• Seeking out and analyzing information
• Speaking in front of groups of people
• Considering the feelings, views or behavior of others
• Organizing or supervising other people
• Making sure that people are following laws or regulations

Your Career Choice: Doctor
Aspect: Providing medical care and treatment to people
Example: All doctors have one goal, to look after the health of their patients

Interview: Anne

A Day in the Life:

• 7:30-9:00a.m. = visiting with newborns at the hospital, talking with parents, examining the babies
• 9:00-9:30a.m. = driving to the office
• 9:30-1:00p.m. = visiting with patients in the office, examining patients for routine checkups, colds, sore throats, coughs, rashes, stomach pain, ear aches, and other problems
• 1:00-2:00p.m. = eating lunch; making phone calls to patients, reading the mail
• 2:00-5:00p.m. = seeing more patients (Following the same routine as with the morning patients)
• 5:00-6:00p.m. = calling patients regarding health questions, medication, and potty training; deciding whether or not a child should be brought to the office for examination.

Aspect: Providing a service to members of the public (e.g. customers, patients)

Example: Anne helps her patients everyday. She explains doing so in 'A Day in the Life', by examining patients and diagnosing them.

Learning Objective: Describe your own character in terms of character qualities.

Definitions
Character: The personal qualities and features that guide our decisions, tell of the kind of person we are, and keep us steady in a life of compromising tremors
Self-discovery: To know ourselves better; learning about ourselves

Video Debriefing
If your friends, family and teachers were asked to describe your character, what would they say?
I believe my teachers would say I'm outgoing and talkative, yet I am an intelligent girl as well.

My friends would say I am a fun person to hang out with and a great listener who helps them when they need it.

My family would say I'm a silly, caring, talkative, chocolate loving, good girl.

Discuss & Reflect
Who would you say is a "person of character?" What positive character qualities does this person posses? What choices has this person made in the past that illustrate character?
My father is a "person of character". He is quite serious when it comes down to his family and his job. He is a loving father and husband. He is a diligent worker and can be counted on. He is wise and is strong. As he grew, he received all these qualities, and more.

Get Go
Ask your friends, family and teachers, how they would describe your character. Do their responses match with what you thought they would say?

The responses matched up in some places.

My Character
Friends: They say I'm funny, outgoing, and fun to hang out with.
Family: They say I'm caring, unselfish, and I have a big heart.
Teachers: They say I'm a bright girl who can get talkative.

School Subjects and Careers

Subject: Science
H C U: U
Career: Anesthesiologist

Job Description
What duties do people in this career have?
What skills do they have?

Without anesthesiologist, surgery would be impossible. Anesthesiologists are doctors who administer the drugs or gases that prevent patients from feeling any pain or sensation during surgery. But that’s not all that these specialists do. They are responsible for the well-being of the patient before, during, and after surgery.

Education
What education and training do you need to enter this career?
What other qualifications are good to have?
Which college or other post high school programs are related to this career?

3 to 4 year bachelor's degree then medical school for 4 years. Those who want to be anesthesiologists must then undertake a 3 to 4-year residency program in anesthesia. Residencies are periods of practical, on-the-job training, which take place in hospitals or other medical settings. Applicants must have an excellent academic record, high scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), and letters of recommendation from teachers and advisors. Medical schools also consider things like character, leadership qualities, and extracurricular activities when making admissions decisions. A good program would be to get into a medical program in high school or even in college.

Person's Name

How did this person get into this career?
What does this person say about opportunities to get into this career?
What advice does this person have for people who want to get into this career?
Doreen:She studied health sciences and biochemistry and go into an anesthesiologist program after medical school. There always seems to be a shortage of doctors worldwide, especially in anesthesiology and certain other specialties. The only way to get into the field, though, is by going to medical school and then taking specialized training in anesthesiology.

Summary-Your Views
Do you think this is a tough career to get into? What is the most difficult part?
Would you be willing to complete the education and training necessary to work in this career? Why or why not?

This is a tough career to get into. It takes a lot of schooling and I don't even know if I may get into medical school. I think I would want to complete the education and training necessary to work in this career because I want to be in the medical field. This career has caught my eye since I heard about what they do. It sounds like an important job to me. But I am not quite certain about the long hours. If I want to have a family, how will I raise my children, but have to leave during the night for shifts? So I believe my answer is undecided, for now.

Roles

1. Daughter: heart/Be a better daughter

2. Student: mind/Study and do my work correctly

3. Artist: heart, mind, soul/Sketch at least every other day to improve

4. Friend: heart/Become more of a listener

5. Sister: heart/Do more things with my sister

6. Aunt: heart/Show how much I love my nephew

7. Employee: body, mind/Work as hard and as much as I can

8. Grandchild: heart/Visit my grandmother and call her on the phone

9. Author: mind, heart, soul/Improve my writing style every chance I get

10. Poetic: mind, heart, soul/Use my own experiences to write better poetry

11. SHAC Member: mind/Be involved with any projects

12. Practicing Catholic: soul, heart/Spread the word of God

13. Intelligent: mind, heart/Keep up my good grades

14. Niece: heart/Spending time with my aunts and uncles whenever I can

15. Tutor: mind/Tutor whomever needs my help

16. Church Lector: heart, soul/Read as much as I can for my God

17. Family: heart, soul/Always remember, Family comes first

18. League Player (basketball, volleyball): body, heart/Practice with my team and get better

19. Myself: heart, mind, body, soul/Just be myself and treat myself when I'm stressed

I seem to have too much going on in my social life. I should pay more attention to my studies. The only thing my father has ever asked me to do was to get good grades. My grades are good, but they can be better. I can still do everything on this list, but just keep an equal amount of my time for everything.

Letter To Me

Melissa,

I wish I would have known exactly what was going to happen in the future. You graduated as Valedictorian and was offered a scholarship to U.T. Austin. You went to medical school and received your Bachelor's and Master's degree. You are still working on your PhD. Mom and Dad saw you walk down to get your diploma. Dad even walked you down the aisle. You got married to a wonderful man and had children. You now live in Washington State with your own Doctor's Office. All of our dreams have come true. You just need to push yourself and all this can be yours. Study harder, do extra credit, and work past your full potential. Strive to get what you want like me, and you'll get it.

Sincerely,

Melissa (From the Future)

Goals

Long Term Goals

1. To graduate #1 of our class and get to go to U.T. Austin (For Free) to become a doctor.

2. To make the best relationship I can, whenever I find the right guy.

3. To build a better character of myself such as with my own view of myself.

4. To have my parents watch me walk down the aisle to receive my college diploma (Ex. Bachelors, Masters, PhD).

S - Receive my bachelors, masters, and PhD

M - I will be finished hopefully between the ages of 28 - 35

A - I studied, doing extra credit, worked hard on each and every assignment

R - As soon as I get out of high school, I will jump onto this goal

T - I hope to be done by the time I am 30

Goeldner's Quiz

1)Select Location

2)View Tab

3)Window Group

4)Freeze Panes

a)Freeze the Panes

b)Freeze the First Row

c)Freeze the First Column

1)Logic Test

2)IF True

3)IF False

Spreadsheet Critical Thinking

A spreadsheet is helpful in running a business because using a spreadsheet helps a business owner keep track of his sales, perhaps. Changing values in a spreadsheet affect business decisions because for example, say by changing one value causes the other cell numbers to go down, then the business may want to work on why that value changed. The advantages of creating an automated spreadsheet rather than a hand written one is making an automated sheet is faster and easier. A hand written sheet would take much longer to do. The capability to recalculate automatically when values change makes an electronic spreadsheet more valuable than a spreadsheet created by hand because on an automated sheet the numbers change automatically when you recalculate. On a hand made spreadsheet, you would either have to erase all the numbers and redo the sheet or just make a brand new spreadsheet.

What-If Assumption

Rosakenly

Jessica

Melissa

Marissa

If you change the Marketing Assumption from 9% to 20%, the Marketing Expense would go higher in its amount, the Total Expenses would then change because of the Marketing Expense changing, and that would mean the Operating Income would change as well.

1. Bonuses

2. Commission

3. Marketing

4. Research and Development

5. Support, General, and Administrative

6. Operating Income = Commission - Expenses

I think I missed 2

1. Freeze and Unfreeze

2. Fix the Margin to Narrow

3. Make it fit on one sheet

4. Semiannual - Twice a year

5. Gross Margin - The Total of the numbers

6. Projected - To plan something

Warren Buffet

Warren Buffet is a stock buyer. In 1998 he started buying Coca-Cola stock like an addict. By 1989, Buffet was now, personally, worth more than $3.8 billion dollars. Within the next ten years, he would be worth ten times that amount. During the remainder of the 1990's the stock catapulted as high as $80,000 per share. Even with this astronomical feat, as the dot-com frenzy began to take hold, Warren Buffet was accused of "losing his touch". In 1999, when Berkshire reported a net increase of 0.5% per share, several newspapers ran stories about the demise of the Oracle. Confident that the technology bubble would burst, Warren Buffet continued to do what he did best: allocate capital into great businesses that were selling below intrinsic value. His efforts did not go unrewarded. When the markets finally did come to their senses, Warren Buffet was once again a star. Berkshire's stock recovered to its previous levels after falling to around $45,000 per share, and Buffet was once again seen as an investment icon.

iPad

The iPad is a new large, high-resolution LED-backlit, IPS display. It is an incredibly responsive Multi-Touch screen. And an amazingly powerful, Apple-designed chip. All in a design that's thin and light enough to take anywhere. iPad isn't just the best device of its kind. It's a whole new kind of device. The 9.7 inch LED-backlit, IPS display on iPad is remarkably crisp and vivid. Which makes it perfect for web browsing, watching movies, or showing off photos. It's also been designed to work in any orientation - portrait or landscape. And because it uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching), it has a wide, 178 degree viewing angle. So you can hold it almost any way you want and still get brilliant picture, with excellent color and contrast.

KFOX News at 9: Channel 14

Ft. Bliss Technology

January 24, 2010

Fort Bliss is using new simulation technology to help teach soldiers in training. Fort Bliss has received gun simulators that resemble real guns. The bullets being fired are not real, but are shown hitting the targets on the video display monitors. They even received Hummer truck simulations which have the guns-man on top of the vehicle shooting at his targets while the display monitors show the vehicle is moving down actual roads in the particular area they are simulating.

Stock Portfolio

To find the Initial Cost of a stock, you have to take the initial price per share and multiply it by the amount of shares.

F4=E4*D4

To find the Current Value of a stock, you have to take Current Price per share and subtract the Initial Price per share from it.

H4=G4-E4

To find the Gain/Loss of a stock, you have to take the Current Value and subtract the Initial Cost from it.

I4=H4-F4

To find the Percentage of Gain/Loss of a stock, you have to take the Gain/Loss and subtract the Initial Cost from it.

J4=I4-F4

KFOX News Report

Eighteen Wheeler Accident

KFOX14 News At Six

Channel 8

A two-vehicle crash cut the power on Gateway Blvd. West. Two electric poles were broken down by two eighteen wheelers. The two vehicles has crashed together and slid into the poles, knocking the power out. The bill to repair the electric poles will go to the insurance of the semi company or the motorist himself. No serious injuries came from the crash, except some business had trouble with their work.

Business down Vicount lost power because of this accident. A worker for ‘Computer Experts’ explained that they could not confirm with clients for repairs to computers because they could not receive phone calls. The power was restored just an hour later.