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When you work at planning your future you sometimes find options that you did not know about. Planning involves dreaming as well as dealing with reality.
 
 
1. You must first start with the dreams.  These dreams may change as you weigh information about you --YOUR skills, interests, and work-related behaviors. 
2.  The process of gathering information about YOU must be complemented by gathering information about career fields that might fit your skills, interests, and work-related behaviors.  You must also weigh information on careers. 
3.  As you weigh information on career options, you need to also weigh information on high school courses and paths that are open to you. 
4.  Now is a good time to take stock of yourself in many ways.  What you do in high school does relate to your educational and career plans.  In the process of weighing information about the courses you might want to take, you may have discovered that you need to improve your study skills and background in certain areas.  You may want to improve your work at school. 
5.  Many career fields require additional education and training after graduation from high school.  You will want to weigh information on postsecondary education options.  These options can include technology centers, community colleges, four-year colleges and universities, military settings, and private, for-profit schools. 
6.  There may be money available to help you pay for education and training after you finish high school.  You should begin to watch for $$$. 
7.  It is not too early to look around the WWW and find out what skills, abilities, and work behaviors that employers are seeking.  Maybe you are not seeking a job right now but the many job openings which are listed at various sites should give you important clues about skills you need to have in career fields that interest you.  You should begin towatch for jobs.
8.  Developing a career plan could be the first step if you really know what you want to do.  Even then, you will  need a back-up plan or two!!  However, you may need to, weigh information about you,  weigh information about careers, weigh information on high school courses/ paths, and weigh information on postsecondary education before you can develop your career plan.  Look at this sample plan and develop a similar one that fits YOU. 

Sample Career Plan and Backup Plan
Long Range Goal: Short Range Goals to Make Dreams a Reality: Current Skills, Interests, and Experiences: Backup Plan If I do not get enough financial aid or scholarships to attend a four-year institution like East Tennessee State or the University of Tennessee, I will consider attending Roane State to take college transfer courses.  This might enable me to work part time in a nursing-related setting and would give me some valuable work experience.

9. If you are unable to develop a sample career plan do not give up: 
  • Talk to your counselor, teachers, and parents. 
  • Talk to people who work in fields that interest you. 
  • Observe workers in fields that interest you. 
  • Consider a part-time job in fields you are exploring. 
  • Use a search engine and look around the WWW for companies that employ people who work in your interest areas. 
10. If your career plans change, just think of these changes as preparing you for the reality that is out there.  In today's work world you must be flexible and willing to always be a learner.  You need a backup plan now and throughout your career. 
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