Student Success Statement

Regarding Successful Living:

“There is no giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.”

Anon

Reflection: It isn’t always  going to be easy to accomplish a goal whether it’s a long term or short term goal it involve little things that you can do to get closer to the accomplishment of the goal. For example if you want to own a bakery one day you need to know recipes and how to bake. Then you need to take classes to learn more. You’ll then have to find a place where you can have your bakery. You will also need employees. As you can see by this example there is many steps to owning a bakery and you accomplish them little by little.

Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Recreational therapists use a variety of modalities, including arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, sports, games, and community reintegration field trips to help maintain or improve a patient’s physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Salary: $19,000- $44,000

Education: Recreational therapists typically need a bachelor’s degree. Many employers require therapists to be certified.

Reflection: Do you still think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t like to have this job because I’m not good at talking to people about their problems.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

William Penn

Reflection: You do what you think is best for you and not for others, because if you come to a decision were someone disagree’s with you then you have to do what you think is right it doesn’t matter what they say and tell you to do because you’re the only person that knows what’s good for yourself. You also have to think about any consequences because if everyone is up for it ,it doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing because you never know what type of consequences that decision can bring.

Thoracic Surgeon

Duties and Responsibilities: A thoracic surgeon is a medical doctor who performs operations on the heart, lungs, esophagus, and other organs in the chest. 

Salary:$225,000-$800,000

Education: The basic steps include college, medical school, and training.

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

No because I don’t think I would be able to give someone else surgery. 

Student Success Statement

Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’

Expediency asks the question ‘Is it politic?’

Vanity asks the question ‘Is it popular?’

But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection: In life there will be many times were you come to a difficult decision. At that point in your life you will have to decide what to do whether it does or doesn’t benefit your loved ones but what’s the right decision for you and what you believe in.

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Radiologic Technologists use x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, magnetic resonance scanners, positron emission scanners, and other technologically advanced machines to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a physician.  

Salary: $24,000-$36,000

Education: Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t mind having this as a job because it seems like something interesting to work with.

Student Success Statement

“Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.” 

– Abraham Lincoln

Reflection: Always have faith in the decisions that you decide in your daily life. Always believe in what you think is right for you and your future that you want. Make sure you choose what feels right for you.

Radiation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: Radiation Therapy Technologists assist radiologists and onocologists (cancer specialists) in treating diseases by exposing areas of patients' bodies to ionizing radiation.  In addition to helping with treatments, technologists are responsible for maintaining the radiation therapy equipment and helping to maintain patient records. 

Salary: $22,000-$26,000

Education: Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. 

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t want this to be my job because I don’t think I would be good at this type of management.

Student Success Statement

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.”

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Reflection: When you choose the right don’t think that you’ll just move on and there you chose the right and you don’t get a benefit from it. You actually do get rewarded with the feeling of being a good person.

Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns.  They also provide counseling and therapy to those with emotional, learning, and behavior problems.  

Salary: $45,000- $65,000

Education: Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in English and science. 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t want this as a job because I’m not really good at making people feel better and comforting them.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right only when entire.”

Victor Hugo

Reflection: You do the right thing when you know and feel good about your decision. Never choose a decision that won’t allow you to feel good about yourself.

Student Success Statement

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection: Something’s can be easier to do than others because maybe we enjoy doing that thing so it becomes easier. But if you don’t have any interest then it makes it harder because you don’t give as much effort as you do to what you like doing.

Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness.  As physicians, they are licensed to use a vary wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  

Salary: $90,000-$200,000

Education: In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t mind having this as a job because I like that it involves with a medical topic.

When You Tell One Lie

Paul Hatch

When you tell one lie, it leads to another

So you tell two lies to cover each other

Then you tell three lies and, Oh Brother,

You’re in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you

Then you tell five lies so folks won’t suspect you

Then you tell six lies and you’ll collect

A life filled with worries and fears

‘Cause you can’t remember how many lies you’ve told

And half the things you say aren’t true

And sometime you’ll slip up, you’ll trip up and then

Whatever will become of you?

So you lie and lie without even trying

And each lie you tell will keep multiplying

‘Till the whole wide world will know you’re lying

Then you’ll be

Suspected

Detected

Rejected

Neglected

Disliked

And you should!

When you lie, you’re closing the door

On everything good

Student Success Statement

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Reflection: The things you do in your daily life consists of the person you really are. If you’re the type of person that doesn’t give up well you must have accomplished many things in life, but if you’re constantly giving up you need to ask yourself what do you want in your life because this can affect you in your future.

Psychiatric Aide – Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness.  As physicians, they are licensed to use a vary wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities. 

Salary: $90,000-$200,000

Education: In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine,  psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would like to have this job because it deals with medication.

Student Success Statement

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in DETERMINATION.”

Tommy Lasorda

Reflection: Nothing in life is impossible when you are determined. You can do anything you set your mind to as long as you believe in yourself and you push yourself to continue trying even through every negative thing people can tell you, because you’re the one that determines the path to your future.

Pharmacy Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: Pharmacy Technicians work in pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist.  Their main responsibility is filling prescriptions according to doctors' orders for patients.  Technicians measure out correct amounts of medication from larger containers to prescription size containers.  In addition, they add drugs to intravenous solutions.

Salary: $15,000-$25,000

Education: Students should take math, science (especially chemistry), and typing courses in high school. 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t mind having this job because I’m interested in the medical field.

                  Student Success Statement

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: Whenever you are faced with difficult situations always pick the way you want them to turn out to be because whatever you choose will lead you to your destination of a future. Make the right decisions that will lead you to the life that you have imagined for yourself.

Pharmacist

Duties and Responsibilities: Pharmacists compound, or prepare, prescriptions written by physicians, dentists, and other practitioners.  They review these prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then prepare the medication.  This can involve weighing, measuring, and mixing drugs.  Once the compounds are prepared, pharmacists then dispense them to customers and patients.

Salary: $33,000- $51,000

Education: Students should take the most challenging high school classes (including AP or IB) available in English, science, and math. 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would like to be one because it deals with medication and it is a good topic to have a job as.