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Career News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the career facet of life. Career News Blog: Career-Exploration News Career exploration a natural fit for fifth-graders: March 6, 2008 by Jessica Johnson
When Jeff Paternoster of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration talked to Boulder Bluff Elementary fifth-graders about careers as part of the Sewee Earth Stewards program, he found most had heard of marine biology. The study of dolphins and whales came to the Goose Creek students' minds. Paternoster asked students to imagine what else a marine biologist might study during a Careers Come Naturally event at the Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center last week. When he suggested whale poop, the idea was met with a chorus of "Eeews." Believe it or not, Paternoster said, "The people I work with, day in, day out, have been working with whale poop." Biologists do so to determine what whales are eating, the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network outreach specialist said. That sounded gross to most 10-year-olds, but it got them thinking about jobs they never knew existed. Career News Blog: Career Exploration News (Continued) Boulder Bluff students were among 260 area fifth-graders from Berkeley, Charleston and Georgetown counties who spent a day at the Sewee Center last week learning about careers available in federal, state and city resource agencies. During the event, students moved from one career station to the next taught by representatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, S.C. State Parks, NOAA and the city of Charleston. Carolyn Keller, a Boulder Bluff science teacher, who has been involved with the Earth Stewards program for eight years, said the experience can motivate students to continue their education after high school. "There are a couple of kids that you just know will not do office work," Keller said. Career News Blog: Career Exploration News (Continued) At Sewee, students learned about outdoor jobs that also require college degrees. Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tent, Tricia Lynch taught students about the jobs available in her field and then taught them to count waterfowl using binoculars.Students grouped photos of birds pasted to a flip book and multiplied the number of birds in one group by the number of groups, incorporating math into the lesson. "Learning how to do a waterfowl count is basically what we do," said Lynch, who works for the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. "I hope down the road it's something they will remember," she said. Exposure to careers at a younger age might have helped Matt Olson find his career earlier in life. As an elementary student, the environmental education coordinator for the city of Charleston, thought he wanted to be a veterinarian, but when he got to college, he discovered his chosen field. Olson said most students know about environmental education, but he also talked to them about becoming an urban forester or a clean city coordinator. "A lot of kids had no clue that some of these positions existed," Olson said. Career News Blog Comment:
My career exploration has been quite a rough and bumpy one! By qualification, I am an electronics engineer. After my graduation I started my career as a scientist in the research laboratories of the Defense Ministry of India. Soon I got disillusioned of the efficacy and value of the kind of work I was being made to do over there. One more thing about me! Since my childhood only, I had always been a research-oriented person and if a real research was not being done, I was not to be a part of it. I stepped out. Career News Blog Comment on Career Exploration News (Continued) My curiosity and my passion for freedom took me on a foot-tour to the places of knowledge in my country. In the meantime I kept supporting myself by doing menial jobs in between. I met people and studied their patterns of working, relaxing, expressing themselves to others as well as to themselves in their routine, during enjoyment, in trouble as well as in emergencies. That gave me an insight into human kinematics and how it affects the way energy travels through our body, or else gets obstructed in the way. I wasn't bothered about me personally. I was mainly interested in the subject of human performance - both physically and mentally - as well as in the disease-pattern of the body and of the mind. Career News Blog Comment on Career Exploration News (Continued) My body was my laboratory and the bodies of the people around me were the more general, extensive and widespread confirmations of my intensive work I was doing with my own body - my personal laboratory! ultimately through trial and error as well as through intensive and extensive testing along with feedback from the self and from the people, I reached the conclusion that the mental patterns dwell in the rigidities of the body musculature especially in those parts where we can't even dream it is so; and it is these rigidities only that stop us from performing fully and thus tend us toward getting diseased. I worked with the said rigidities and the results were nothing less than miracles. It's not yet that my work is fully over. In fact, I'm still working on the details of its modalities concerning various other diseases but the work with eyesight and a few lifestyle diseases like headache, sinus, backache, obesity, digestion, acidity, constipation, chronic fatigue syndrome, hypertension, sex drive, sex problems and mental stress has come to its logical culmination and I am here to offer the same to the people in my weekend training sessions.
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