Thinking About Jobs

I was thinking about my future, so I started thinking about jobs. I started wondering what I would want to do when I'm older. I've thought for a while now that i want to go into medicine, my dream would be to go into neuro-surgeory or anesthesiology. While thinking about this I asked my self, what are the highest paying jobs? I found on cbsnews.com that some of the highest paying jobs are surgeons, psychiatrists as well as other medical fields, but also petroleum engineers and air traffic controllers. These jobs are the top, stable paying educated jobs yet almost every one requires many years of education that is also very expensive. Many people would probably think of the best jobs as get rich and famous quick but in the real world these stable, high educated jobs are available to anyone who puts in the work while only a lucky one percent will become famous, professional athletes or the next Bill Gates. Despite high loans and a long period of schooling and work before you even begin to bring in high pay and are able to pay off loans, these jobs offer a sort of insurance of great profit. These jobs are the highest paying that anyone can achieve and they may have a long work span, however when you think about something that you will do for most of your life there are bigger factors to consider. If you love what you do, then it would only be more exciting years making plenty of money rather than sitting at home eating a burger.

Continued intrigue and making a difference are very important to me when i consider my future. I've always thought being a doctor was the perfect way to spend my life, other than being a pro basketball player of course. If I was a doctor I would be able to make plenty of money to have a prosperous life. Being involved in medicine I would know for sure that every day my love of science would be able to be filled and my mind challenged every day on the job. My third reason for my main picks of jobs would be that i would know for a fact that every day i would be helping someone, I would be able to save even just one life and that could make everything worth while.

Thinking about the future is hard especially imagining what you could do for the next half of your life. I believe that the goals i set for where I want to be with my future has set the perfect map up for my road ahead and I think everyone should figure out what they want to be able to feel and say when they stand atop the White House podium or create the newest dish at their restaurant, what you do has to be fueled by your passion, get you to a place in life you are happy with, and make you feel proud and lucky to do it every time you walk in. This is how you build a future you are excited to be a part of and set your self up for success and happiness.

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After reading about Googles newfound realization of a huge gender gap within their company as well as other tech companies it raises some questions and thoughts. The article NYTimes: Exposing Hidden Biases at Google to Improve Diversity discussed Googles thoughts and part of its plans for change. Thoughts that come to my head are whether the company really cares, after never even realizing it or at least not caring, the company has obvious discrimination. Another thought is will Google make a drastic effort to fix their gender gap and hire at more of a one to one ratio specifically, turning down males to balance out the gender ratio? Thirdly this article and Googles effort to try and make a change is exciting to see, any change to make things more diverse and equal is a good shift.  Unfortunately what this article and the statistics of gender and race diversity within major tech businesses portrays is that even in our most intelligent and forward thinking areas of society there is a clear discrimination which can only display the underlying discrimination across our society.

Google is approaching its gender gap with workshops that are supposed to work with the Google employees to tackle unconscious bias. Once people are more open and accepting they believe that the gap should close and a greater diversity will emerge. The belief is that once people see the hidden discrimination that occurs they will see how prevalent it is and will be able to make a conscious effort to fight these biases. With a 70% male work force Google has a clear gender gap which is not representative of the population at all. Google is approach in this problem due to it being morally right and also because research has shown that more diverse work forces are able to be more creative than homogenous ones. I do not know how Google decides on applications and with its hiring but it is just logical that the work force should be decided upon by their qualifications and the skill they have, I highly doubt that most of the 70% of males at google are really more qualified than the many women not filling these positions. An even greater issue is that men make up 83 percent of its engineering employees and 79 percent of its managers. This statistic shows a clear gap in opportunities and positions given to women at the companies when they're already a minority in the work place. One anecdote of Google was that a panel of men were deciding on the promotion of a women and when they were brought to realize that they might not have the point of view of a woman and they realized how unequal it is to have a group of white men deciding on the fates of women and other minorities. All in all something needs to be done to balance out the numbers in Google and other tech businesses with similar gender and racial gaps because it is plain unfair and wrong to not have equal opportunity and representation. Th fact that Google is trying to make a move is great but the change must be strong and needs to occur everywhere or else nothing will really change and this unconscious discrimination and imbalance is throughout all of society.