Showcasing Me
First Job Shadow
First Experience-For my first job shadow, I met with Mark Cope who works with Kan-Okla. The location was at his office at Kan-Okla. I went into his office while he was helping make a collage for a client. I told him that I wish to be some sort of I.T. or graphic designer which is what he does. He gave me a lot of great tips about how to prepare and what it would take to become one. This is a career that I do wish to go into because I love designing things and looking at how things work.
Second Job Shadow
For my second job shadow, I job shadowed Officer Rebekah Rickstrew who is the head of Caldwell police department. The location was at City Hall and all of the sites we patrol. I went into her office while she was explaining evidence, finger prints, cases, and a lot more. I told her I had been recently thinking about joining the force whether it be military or police. she gave me a lot of great tips about how to prepare and what it would take to join them. This is a career that I do wish to go into because I love helping people.
Career
Since I was little, I’ve always loved games. I am a very curious person and asked myself how games are made. How does the computer work? I’ve gained a great passion for technology.
The field that I plan on going into is computer science and 3-D game design. I have a few family members that are IT, cyber security, and coding. I have been interested in how to make the game that I love playing come to life and see how they work. I love how the two are connected through the same programing just used differently, the game design is more of a hobby though.I wish to attend Southwestern College.
After I began making small games and other coding processes, I wondered what the pay would be like if I actually caught my dream. A computer programmer gets paid $40 - $110 thousand a year. A game programmer gets paid anywhere from $30-$100 thousand a year. Pretty good if you ask me. I am currently taking a virtual reality (VR) programing class. For this you need to have a vast knowledge of math. I took geometry and algebra 1 and 2 so I can understand shapes and how to make things work in the programming language, Python. In college there are many game design and computer maintenance classes. For the easiest programing job I will at least need an associates degree. I am planning for a bachelor's degree though, I get paid more that way.
There are so many job opportunities in Kansas if one looks strictly for an IT or computer science personnel. Anywhere there are companies that use any sort of technology from cell phones to laptops to the internet itself. Personally I think the rate for IT
The field that I plan on going into is computer science and 3-D game design. I have a few family members that are IT, cyber security, and coding. I have been interested in how to make the game that I love playing come to life and see how they work. I love how the two are connected through the same programing just used differently, the game design is more of a hobby though.I wish to attend Southwestern College.
After I began making small games and other coding processes, I wondered what the pay would be like if I actually caught my dream. A computer programmer gets paid $40 - $110 thousand a year. A game programmer gets paid anywhere from $30-$100 thousand a year. Pretty good if you ask me. I am currently taking a virtual reality (VR) programing class. For this you need to have a vast knowledge of math. I took geometry and algebra 1 and 2 so I can understand shapes and how to make things work in the programming language, Python. In college there are many game design and computer maintenance classes. For the easiest programing job I will at least need an associates degree. I am planning for a bachelor's degree though, I get paid more that way.
There are so many job opportunities in Kansas if one looks strictly for an IT or computer science personnel. Anywhere there are companies that use any sort of technology from cell phones to laptops to the internet itself. Personally I think the rate for IT
Reflective Essay
When I was 14, I had a turning point in my life that affected me and made me who I am today. I went to help my uncle in Haysville put siding on his house and work in his yard. The stress that it put me threw, and well as all of the negative things that everyone has said. But also what I had to learn and not take for granted in life anymore. The first day I lifted a pile of siding and I noticed a burning, pinching pain behind my left ear. I figured I had got stung by a wasp or a bee of some sort knowing they were around everywhere in the warm, humid summer. I had said something to him about the pain and I took pain killer. A few hours later we were eating supper. It was home-made alfredo spaghetti. As we were sitting eating, I took a drink from my glass of water but it came out of my mouth. My uncle looked at me in complete, utterly shock. I looked back with equal concern. We both knew something was wrong, very wrong. I went to the bathroom around the corner and down the hall a few doors. I went to rinse off all of the huge mess all over me. As I stood there I began to hum a song out of sheer boredom. I went to whistle and I couldn’t. I tried again and again. I looked at myself in the mirror asking what was wrong with me. What was happening? I tried once again and I saw only half of my face come alive,and the other half dead. The right side was fine while the left, nothing. No movement. I touched my face with trembling fingers from right to left. I still felt the shaky sensation from my hands. I couldn’t move half of my face. Nothing seemed to hurt, no visual signs of damage or anything wrong. I went a week still one half of my visible emotions alive the other lifeless. Two passes. It was time for me to go back home. On the way he wished me luck and to figure out what other worldly thing had happened to me. Once I got home as I walked in my mom noticed it almost instantly. We went to the doctor and they told me I have bell's-palsy. A nerve behind my left ear just behind the bone gets pinched and the left side of my face is paralyzed. I wasn’t nervous when I heard it, nor scared in anyway. I got informed that I couldn’t have any contact sports (football or hockey) I had to drop my first year of football before it had even started. Once people heard the reason I had dropped, came the insults and the antagonizing. It’s still with me to this day. The challenges that it possesses, restricting me from what I am allowed and able to do become worlds apart. It makes me feel as if I need to treat everyone as I want to be treated and not how I was treated. To keep pursuing what I wanted in life and all that comes with it. What I can do to help other people and make everyone as happy as I can. You never know what day is your last until It’s that day. Keep enjoying life and find a way to overcome whatever is pushed onto you by others or whatever is thrown at you by life..It made me realize throughout all of this that life is short yet long, Cruel but kind, and most importantly you never know what will and can happen to you.
When I was 14, I had a turning point in my life that affected me and made me who I am today. I went to help my uncle in Haysville put siding on his house and work in his yard. The stress that it put me threw, and well as all of the negative things that everyone has said. But also what I had to learn and not take for granted in life anymore. The first day I lifted a pile of siding and I noticed a burning, pinching pain behind my left ear. I figured I had got stung by a wasp or a bee of some sort knowing they were around everywhere in the warm, humid summer. I had said something to him about the pain and I took pain killer. A few hours later we were eating supper. It was home-made alfredo spaghetti. As we were sitting eating, I took a drink from my glass of water but it came out of my mouth. My uncle looked at me in complete, utterly shock. I looked back with equal concern. We both knew something was wrong, very wrong. I went to the bathroom around the corner and down the hall a few doors. I went to rinse off all of the huge mess all over me. As I stood there I began to hum a song out of sheer boredom. I went to whistle and I couldn’t. I tried again and again. I looked at myself in the mirror asking what was wrong with me. What was happening? I tried once again and I saw only half of my face come alive,and the other half dead. The right side was fine while the left, nothing. No movement. I touched my face with trembling fingers from right to left. I still felt the shaky sensation from my hands. I couldn’t move half of my face. Nothing seemed to hurt, no visual signs of damage or anything wrong. I went a week still one half of my visible emotions alive the other lifeless. Two passes. It was time for me to go back home. On the way he wished me luck and to figure out what other worldly thing had happened to me. Once I got home as I walked in my mom noticed it almost instantly. We went to the doctor and they told me I have bell's-palsy. A nerve behind my left ear just behind the bone gets pinched and the left side of my face is paralyzed. I wasn’t nervous when I heard it, nor scared in anyway. I got informed that I couldn’t have any contact sports (football or hockey) I had to drop my first year of football before it had even started. Once people heard the reason I had dropped, came the insults and the antagonizing. It’s still with me to this day. The challenges that it possesses, restricting me from what I am allowed and able to do become worlds apart. It makes me feel as if I need to treat everyone as I want to be treated and not how I was treated. To keep pursuing what I wanted in life and all that comes with it. What I can do to help other people and make everyone as happy as I can. You never know what day is your last until It’s that day. Keep enjoying life and find a way to overcome whatever is pushed onto you by others or whatever is thrown at you by life..It made me realize throughout all of this that life is short yet long, Cruel but kind, and most importantly you never know what will and can happen to you.