Using a Career

Select Career-Fashion Designer

List 5 things about this career that you find appealing.

1. Having your own creative ideas about designs and styles

2. Being aware of how colors, shapes and patterns are used in design

3. You see people wearing your designs

4. You motivate people

5. You show people what you can do

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

My skill is an A

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

__9___I am highly skilled

__11___I am skilled

__6___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.

1) Using your hands in a skillful way

a. you could work more with your hands

b. you could do more activities that use hands

c. make more things by hand

2) Operating equipments and machines

a. learn more about machines

b. understand more about machines

c. work more often with machines

3) Presenting

a. speak louder

b. try not making mistakes

c. don't get nervous

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

yes it is because I like designing dresses and this is the perfect job

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

interests is that you wan to do this and skills are that you can actually do it.

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

Yes because you wouldn't want to have a job that you can't do at all.

Cost Estimator

Job Description
What do people in this career do?

Cost estimators are responsible for calculating how much money a project will cost, as well as how long it will take to complete.

What skills do people in this career have?
It takes a great deal of research and knowledge to prepare a cost estimate.

Working Conditions
Where do people in this career work?

They can work in many different industries, most cost estimators work in the construction and manufacturing industries.

What kind of hours do they work? Do they work days, nights, shifts, overtime, how many hours per week or day?

I don't know but i think they work in the morning and the afternoon.

Interview Person Name:
Day in the Life
Three important work activities this person performs during the day
1. Calculating how much money a project will cost

2. How long it will take to finish the task
3. To keep everything in budget

Breakdown of Activities
Three activities this person spends the most time on
1. Work on the project
2. Research
3. knowledge

Likes and Dislikes
What does this person like about the job?

They get a lot of money
What does this person dislike about the job?
You can't get over the budget

What are three things that you think are good about this job?
1. You are really important
2. You hire the company to do the work
3. They make the building look how they want it to look

What are three things you think are bad about this job?
1. You can't waste a lot of money over the budget
2. You have to be perfectly on schedule
3. You can't mess up

Could you see yourself doing this job in the future? Why or why not?

Yes because it makes you focus more on how you're doing all of your work and it will be better in a lot of other things.

Career Ideas

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

Fashion Designer

1) You make your own unique designs as fashion designer

2) You will see people wearing your designs

3) You will make a runway show with your designs

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

Yes the career I picked is in the list.

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

1)Understanding the scientific uses and properties of materials

2)Being accurate with numbers in counting, measuring and arithmetic

3)Being interested in manufacturing or processing industries

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

It match up with likes or likes very much.

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

I still think that it is a good career for me because its what I like doing.

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

Yes I do because you wouldn't want to have a job that has things you don't know or like to do.

Define your Character

Define Your Character

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?
shy caring

quiet

smart

artistic

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 mother would be person of character because she is a really nice person, she is an artist, she took care of me, she is smart, she is a really good person, she is unique

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?

My Character
Friends-quiet artistic nice
Family- smart quiet
Teachers- listener quiet

Roles

1)Daughter= Heart (be a better daughter)

2)Student= Mind (study more)(pay more attention)

3)Sister=Heart (be nicer to my sisters)

4)Aunt=heart (help my nephews more or play more with them)

5)Friend=Heart (Help more with what they need)

6)Artist=Mind (take art lessons)

7)Athlete=Body (exercise more)

8)musician=mind-energy (practice more)

9)Niece=Heart (Be nicer)

10)Grandchild=Heart (be nicer)

11)Family=Heart (be nicer)

12)Smart=Mind (study more)

13)fashion Designer=heart-mind (take sewing lessons)

I seem to be more in school and in athletics than in Band. I also have been spending less time with my family than what I usually do.

Mail From the Future

Hi this is you from the future I just wanted to say how wonderful your future is right now. Your 24 years old and we are in college. It is our graduation year and we are pretty sure we are going to get a job as a fashion designer. We went to all the places we wanted to go. You are really happy and you have worked really hard, especially in school. Your goals so far have been coming true. You will graduate from high school with one of the top ten in the 2013. When you graduate from high school you will have a simple job, and you will buy your self the car you have always wanted. You will be really happy in all of those years. Have fun and enjoy the years while your in high school. You will also hang out a lot with your family. Always remember to never give up your goals.

Long Term Goal

1)Education- My Goal for is to pass all my classes and Graduate from High School.

2)Relationship- My goal is for my sister and me to stop fighting

3)Character- My goal is for me to be nicer to people and help them with what they need

4)Your Choice- My goal is to become a fashion designer

S I want to be a fashion designer

M My goal is to become a fashion designer when I finish college

A I need to draw my designs, learn how to sew, and never give up

R Is what am doing right. Is drawing my designs, sewing, and never giving up a good way to get there

T Finishing college is enough to learn how to sew and draw better, and learn that you should never give up.