Well I'm pretty sure this question
crosses everybody's mind right?
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Hi everyone my name is Kim I am a
registered dietitian. For those that are
new to my channel go ahead and look
around, see if you like this channel and
click that subscribe button. I'm pretty
sure this question crosses everybody's
mind right?? Finding the right career and
the reason why I am making this video is
because a lot of you have been leaving
comments in my comment section; some of
you are trying to find another
profession. Others if you are in high
school or in college and saying: "Well you
know how, how, how, how is the field? what
is it like? You guys just have tons of
questions. So I'm going to share with you
some things that I did to find out if
dietetics was the correct career for me.
And I'll be honest with you I actually
asked myself this question after I got
into the profession because you know
when you're in the profession you're
wondering well can I see myself doing
this until I reach retirement for the
next 40 years? The five things that I did
to figure out if dietetics was the
correct career for me. So let me start
off with a story so there's actually two
colleagues of mine who are actually
still dietitians but decided to leave
the profession and become a physician's
assistant. One of them that I spoke about
before she actually stated to me that
she decided to become a physician's
assistant because she was seeing a lot
of people that were diabetic and their
insulin medications and their oral
hypoglycemic medications was wrong in
her eyes so she wanted to actually be a
little hands-on and adjustment it. The other
colleague of mine, she was actually a
dietitian for about 15 years and she
said that she could not see herself in
the profession anymore. She wanted
something, she wanted to try something
very new. So there's different reasons
why people may want to change
professions there's different reasons
why people may want to go into the field
of dietetics. So let me just share with
you the five things I did without
babbling along. So the first thing I did
which is the first thing that I would
recommend you to do as well is do some
introspection! Look into yourself
realize your
likes and dislikes. Realize your
strengths and your weaknesses, realize if
you're talkative person, if your
reserved person, if you're an angry
person, a happy person, etc! And just
really find out who you are. Once you
find out who you are then you would
realize where you want to go in life.
Where you want to be in the next 5
years, 10 years, 15 years, etc. Back in high
school one of my teachers actually made
us sit down and take like a career path
test. My career aptitude test stated that
the best career for me to go into was
nursing. Okay?? As far as I know they're
not scientifically based, but they helped
me to do a little introspection so I
would encourage you to do that. The
second thing that I would encourage you
to do is to do your research on
dietetics
or it doesn't have to be dietetics it
can be whatever career or occupation
you're thinking about going into. Reason
why you want to do your research number
one you want to find out how much time
time is important how much time it takes
for you to achieve that goal of being in
that occupation? How much education? How
much schooling? Find out the job
description? Job duties? Job outlook in
the next 5, 10, 15 years?
Finances is a big part of that! I
remember there is a song "C.R.E.A.M." it was
like way back when. (C.R.E.A.M.= cash rules everything
around me) I'm not gonna tell you the
artist, but cream. Well cash shouldn't
rule anything around you but money talks aye.
When you look at the job, the job
description everything dealing with the
job is there any growth? The third thing
that you want to do is to look at how
demanding is the job? Is it I'm going to
get into your social life? Will you be
able to have a family? Will be able to
raise your kids or are you going to have
to put them in the babysitter's? How
versatile is this job? Is a job going to
make you travel are you going to be stay
at home? How close? How far? Are you going
to have time to come home in the
afternoon and cook, have a relaxed time?
Are going to be on call all the time? So
these are all the things that you need
to answer and to be honest with you I
wish someone would have told me this
while I was in high school while I was
in college.
Fourth thing I think you should do is to
shadow the profession like
this will be so excellent. I had a friend
college and she was actually the first
one that I've heard say that she was
getting her degree in dietetics. I'm a
dietetics, what is dietetics? Because I
didn't find out about the professional
of dietetics until I was actually in college.
And she was saying she wanted to be a
doctor.
Her parents had set up for her to shadow
this physician for the entire summer. I
guess he was some type of family friend
and what she had told me is that the
physician actually didn't have time to
see her so he just scooted her along to
the dietitian. So the entire summer
she was just shadowing the dietitian she
began to find out what the dietitian
does and she's like "Oh wow" this
profession is great this is the career
for me. So see if you can shadow someone
in the career in that occupation because
it will allow you to see what they do on
a day to day basis, how happy they are
hopefully you find someone that's happy in the
profession you want to go. The fifth
thing that you want to do, you want to
find a company. Different companies high
for different occupations obviously, but
once you find a company that you do like
find out their values, their mission
statements, their goals. There's some
websites out there that actually allow
you to see the information on the
current employees; how satisfied or
unsatisfied they are working with that
company. Companies have different perks
and different incentives, different
mission statements. So finding the right
company is actually something very, very
important. After doing all of this, after
I did all of this, I actually did
this about two years after I became a
dietitian. Cause I was like...well... a few dietitians
I know are changing professions and
they've been in this profession longer
than I have am I missing something?
So after I actually did all of this and
weighed everything I actually made like
a little Venn diagram for myself; the
pros and the cons and everything that
was neutral in between; I realized well
in essence, where I am right now this
point in my career, this point in my
occupation
I can see myself being a dietitian until I reach retirement. Now if you're in
high school I would definitely encourage
you or if you're in college I would
definitely encourage you to do this now
in your life. If this is your second
occupation or even third occupation
these are questions that you need to ask
yourself as well before you jump into
a whole entire different career path. So guys
these are just my quick tips on how to
find the right career for you. It's an
honest question that we all ask
ourselves, it's not wrong to ask yourself
that question it's okay to make a switch.
But, I do thank you guys for watching
have a good day as usual remember to
like as well as subscribe if you have
any other tips that you want to add to
this video please go ahead and leave
them in the comment section below
so that we can start some conversation. I
just want to help you guys out with this
have a good day. BYE!
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