So my paper for college goes great with my career. I want to study occupational therapy, and the topic I found that was a major problem was home health care. Most patients that receive this are home bound, but what about the dependability factor? This means that someone has to be able to drive well or have a family member take them. I absolutely loves my interview! I meet with a girl that does outpatient care in a build near our town hospital. The way she talked about her job made me want to just start doing it now. She even told me about all the environments she had the opportunity to work in. You could yell just by talking to her she loved it, and was happy with the career choice she made. She also had a great bubbly personality that made the interview and conversation just flow. I just loved the environment, the things she had to say, and the over all idea of the job. Needless to say I can not wait until I am that young lady sitting there giving another young dreamer of this career the passion to do it! I just can not wait to see what my future as a occupational therapist has in store for me. I always dreamed about working with kids but I know that when it comes to that part of the therapy it is hard to get onto because everyone wants to work with kids. So I feel like working in a hospital or a nursing home might be better until a job in the kid aspect of it comes up. I do not mind either way because I know I will be doing what I love. I do not even mind that I may have to work weekends or holidays because to me it is all worth it if I can just make one person's day by helping them. I can not wait until I can finally do that! It will be the best day of my life!
Reading this has made me really excited for you and for me as well because our jobs kind of go hand in hand. I want to be a physical therapist and occupational therapists kind of work with them in a way to help patients. When I was observing for PT at a nursing home near my house it got me really excited as well because I cannot wait to help people who are in pain. The occupational and physical therapists that worked there worked with each patient on their own time but also worked together to do their exercises. I thought this was cool because then patients work exercising with other patients which would make it a little more bearable I think. Observing at the nursing home also made me realize that that is not the line of work that I really want to work in even though it is the part of the field that gets paid the most. I also thought it would be a lot of fun to work with children but a lot of people do want to and not only that but it is a matter of patience and not letting your work get to you emotionally. I feel like if I worked with children I would get emotionally attached because I love kids. Even though working at the nursing home seemed like a harder place to work at a lot of the staff still kept a positive attitude while working with them no matter how hard it got. Anyway, good luck in your program and your career, I’m sure you will do great.
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