1.   If you had lived somewhere on the American continents in 700-1000 C.E., which culture would you have wanted to belong to? State the name of the culture and which of their beliefs or activities

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Demographic Information

My name is Yvette Lunday and am 62 years old. Although it seems to be at the elderly age, I have a motto of never too late. Due to the different changes in the community, I decided to go back to college and pursue a degree in business management. The importance of going back to school is to help me to get back to the community and ensure I meet my career advancement goals. The responsibility is to give back to the community and improving the livelihood of troubled youths.

I am blessed with 4 sons in my life. I was married to a military man, and through this life, I have learned and been to all places in the world. Am currently living with my last born son, in the Northern part of Alabama. Through the experience of life have managed to raise my sons from a middle earning income. The other three sons of mine are living their lives while trying to make different changes and social advancements in their lives. The experience of this diverse life has helped me to interact with different people from different cultures.

My marriage life can be compared to the inclusion of different cultures in the contemporary community. I am an interracial American and my husband was a Latin soldier. Through marrying into different cultures, I have the diversity aspect which deals with different communities based on the modern society. I have the diversity of inclusion as I ail from a multiracial family and society. I was raised and received counseling which helped me to focus on changing trends of my life. I was able to ensure, proof, and develop by focusing on the counseling as my end goal.

My working experience is over 25 years. I have managed to work with different groups of people in the community. As a driver of the disabled in the community. I have also worked in different groups, including, “Professional School Bus driver, Family Support Worker, Substance Abuse Counselor, Residential Counselor, Private Duty, Home Health Aide, Certified Nurse’s Aide, and a House Manager & Supervisor.” All these experiences have shaped me to desire to be a counselor or social worker with the aim of helping the community especially the troubled youth in the community.

Career Development Concerns

Education is one of the many concerns in my career development. Although I have a planned role of focusing on the value of education and how it will shape a career, I have realized the need to go to college and attain my business management degree at the late stages of my life. The essence is to focus on the ways, means, and essence of life by focusing on the way to developing my career (Niles, & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2017). The education path I have taken has been daring, but I want to try and finish my masters in psychology so as to ensure I meet my goal of becoming a career counselor or a social worker to help to work with troubled youth in the community.

Secondly, developing my resume can help me to polish my career and working professionals from the past. I have been working for the last 25 years, till 2014 when I decided to join college and pursue a degree in business management. The aim of going back to study is to help and improve my focus on attending the necessary processes, learning and gaining the necessary experiences to meet the value of education. Although life planning has not easy, I will manage to improve my alternation and planning to meet the expectations of my family and life expectations (Niles, & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2017). Having goals and a plan to ensure I meet the expectations of my career will help towards attaining a productive life career. This can be only done through improved skill development.

Focusing on the importance of meeting my career expectations, I focus on developing goals to ensure a controlled process and planned actions. Planning on my career has been possible due to the importance of using objectives. I also have past experience in the industry of social working and counseling. Focusing on the importance of social life and working with diverse communities has helped me to learn about their expectations (Niles, & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2017). Focusing on these expectations will help me to overcome any challenges on the path of my career. I will also ensure, develop, and improve to make the necessary works are improved and increased to ensure a common working culture and platform.

Cultural Implications

There are different cultural implications which I learned through my marriage and life of an ex-military society. Although I am able to work and marry from different multicultural communities. I am yet to understand the diversity and I value the importance of learning to meet the different expectations of the community based on different cultures (Flores & Heppner, 2002). The importance of cultural diversity has helped me to part of a large community which shows equality and improves by focusing on diversity and common inclusion. Marrying outside of my community and race has helped me to work and live with different people in the contemporary community.

Based on my 25 years of working with different people in the community, I have learned about the importance of working towards a common goal. Inclusion is one of the many challenges which impacts social workers and commonality with can be achieved by working together. It is important to focus on the role of an individual in the community. Inclusion will help to improve the chances of a successful community. Working with disabled communities makes me humble to help and support disabled communities (Flores & Heppner, 2002). The society has the responsibility to ensure all the disabled communities have enough social amenities and are included in all branches of the society. It is important to include, develop, and help societies by focusing on the importance and commitment of all societies.

My career is focusing on the importance of helping the troubled youth in the community and this has helped me to focus on the importance of learning about the challenges facing the youth. As a counselor, I need to develop skills such as good communication skills, understand different cultures and speak evenly without bias and lack of empathy (Flores & Heppner, 2002). Being empathic due to the changes and aspects affecting all communities in the society will affect the ability to influence and reduce working commitment. It is a process to help, improve and reduce the working sources in the community. It is an approach to ensure, we work together with the objective of focusing on the value of life and making the resources essential.

In addition to the inclusion of the disabled people and troubled youth from different communities, it is also taken into consideration the value of the career and what it adds to the social work of people and community. The approach is to focus on the value of life and focusing on the changes in the community which influence, impact, reduce the opportunities and often improve social division in the community (Flores & Heppner, 2002). It is also an influence to help in the meeting, changing, and conforming to the issues of the community. Focusing on the common issues in the community will help to improve and develop a career focusing on success.

Types of Assessments

As a student pursuing a master’s degree in human relations, I have managed to consider different assessments which focus on the importance of developing a positive career and ensuring one can positively understand the process of communication and value testing. Therefore, the assessments include career exploration and self – assessment and value testing. The modern community comprises a diverse working field and different careers, one needs to understand the process of understanding the working world and what makes on becoming a productive in the working world.

Career exploration and self – assessment is a critical assessment which focuses on the ability of one’s skills and motivation to work effectively in the working world. The tests focus on the ability to define one’s transition into the career and whether one focuses on choosing different paths (Ponton, & Duba, 2009). It is a process of communication which helps to improve, define and support a common theory in the process of learning. It is important to focus on learning and using the self-made skills. The results are a positive view on the ability to ensure I can fruitfully ensure and make the necessary processes in working in the production and working community.

Value testing focuses on one’s motivation and how one can fully understand the principles of work. It is also important to use, develop, and ensure one has needs which need to be met to ensure a productive working culture. In the value testing, the test focuses on the core entities of work which focuses on the ability to focus on the importance of the core of the work (Ponton, & Duba, 2009). The responsibility is to ensure the normal processes of work can be met and it is important to use, develop, and influence about the possible changes in value tests. As a result, the test focuses on the importance of understanding the job or career needs of the working world.

Possible Career Paths

During the process of pursuing my career, I have identified two possible career paths. They include a social worker and career counselor. These paths have the necessary aim of helping people in the community. The scope of the work is the only difference between the two career paths. They help to improve, influence, and change people’s lives in the contemporary community. It is this focus which helps to improve the overall foundation of the work in comparing the different aspects about the normal entities of life.

Counseling will help me to fulfill my career advanced and end goal. Since I was helped at a young age of 18 years, it has been my aim also to help the young, troubled youth in the community. Hence, focusing on my end goal of starting a local school will help me to focus and improve my essential features in the community. It is important to focus on career but also have an endpoint which is also to ensure I help through either counseling or being a social worker in the community.

The social worker career is diverse. The duties are many and among the main goals of the worker is to identify work and ensure one can complement and focus on the common goals of life. It helps people who are in need. The working hours of a social worker are either fulltime based on the organization or the community programs. The salary or income of a social worker position is an average of $44,200. Working is also based on the position or community-based approach. There is the nature of choosing either clinical, medical and community social work (Ponton, & Duba, 2009). Education is necessary and certification and licensing also a critical resource in the field of social work. One needs to pursue a degree in psychology or have a master’s degree in social work with respective certification.

On the other hand, a career counselor will work with different organizations, but more importantly in the school community. Having a career counselor at schools helps to improve the career planning and steering the responsibility of students towards attaining a common language and responsibility (Ponton, & Duba, 2009). What is also important is to develop a proper plan to support the value of education needed and offered by a career counselor. Work schedules are also fulltime for a career counselor since she/he works with other teachers. But some can work during summer sessions to help students in making meaningful career choices. Average wages for a career counselor is $53,610. This makes the field of career counseling, critical to the life of students.

Reflection

The career development is an important tool for focusing on developing the foundation to help in career exploration. The mantra of it is never too late to focus on work and education helps to improve my retention towards improving my career. I focus on the importance of ensuring working is based on the planning from my education career. It also helps to focus on the changes, ways, and means to communicate and care about the importance of work. Focusing on the ways, resources, and importance of a career development, it is important to use the necessary information to focus on the common value of information. These processes help to focus and diversify the essence of achieving commonality in the workplace.

During the classwork, I have learned about the importance of making the right choices, especially when choosing on your career and what one needs to accomplish for a successful career. It is also important to focus on the processes rather than how to accomplish the career exploration. For instance, to make the necessary decision about one’s career, it is important to choose the right path and plan on how to attain the expected goals. Having a strategy will also help in attaining the necessary focus on attaining a career path. Having a career path will make communication, learning and working an essential role. This helps to communicate and focus on the different changes such as focusing on the ways of life, communication, and tracking the changes in the community.

The future can be influenced by the common planning an essential consideration of the present times. Since I choose to go back to school and pursue a career in psychology, focusing on this path will help me to fulfill my expectations of the education community. Learning can be based on the processes of communication and improve a human perspective in the community (Chung, & Gfroerer, 2003). This can be attained through effective learning. Using this information will also help in focusing on the importance of working together while focusing on the importance of educational effectiveness. I need to focus and have a responsibility for ensuring the career planning can be effective, especially when focusing on the importance of career development.

The future is based on what I do in my current state and time. I want to improve and attain my master’s degree in human relations. This will improve and give me the necessary platform for ensuring I can either pursue social work or career counseling. These are the occupations which I need to focus and gain in the future. They complement my working cultures and periods of working in different fields of social work and health care in the modern community.

As a personal career counselor, I will try to make the necessary decision which can help me attain the needed expertise for either social work or career counseling. Choosing the right path is always challenging, but I will contemplate on my skills and determination. This will help me to choose the right path, and career for applying my already developed skills (Dugger, 2015). My experience will also be a good teacher since I will rely on communication to make the most logical decisions to support and help my career development for my future and present education.

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