[nabs-l] What I Think I Want To Do...More Questions...

[Carly Mihalakis]

Hi, Keri,

Thank you for the message, clarifying from where you are sittting, 
career wise. For subjects like sports%
&rec  contact Lisa Maria Martinez at lmartenez at gmail.com.
Good luck! Car04:02 PM 6/8/2013, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone:
>
>Last night, I did some more thinking. I believe I have come up with a
>plan, and thought I'd share to get everyone's thoughts. I decided to
>change the subject line.
>The problem is I don't know what my passion is. I suffer from very
>very low self-esteem and lack belief/confidence in myself. As I said
>in my previous message, I have no problems doing things for someone
>else, but when it comes to myself and what I want to do this is where
>I majorly struggle.
>My other problem is that because of lack of confidence when I think of
>my interests I question myself and convince myself out of it. There is
>a difference between just liking something and actually doing it for a
>career and being good at it.
>Maybe I just don't know what I am really good at.
>Okay, here are my interests and potential career plan.
>My interests are sports, braille, rehabilitation counseling,
>rehabilitation teaching, journalism, reading, writing, and
>communications.
>Here is what I was thinking.
>I really love sports. When I went to WVU before, I was a journalism
>major because I thought I wanted to be a sportswriter.
>I was thinking I'd finish my journalism degree. I say journalism
>because I feel it could teach me a lot of transferable skills that
>could help me in other areas and I could learn to become a better
>writer. I could also try to better figure out whether I want to
>actually be a sportswriter.
>My top interests besides sports are rehabilitation counseling,
>rehabilitation teaching, and braille. I figured if after I got my
>journalism degree, I could get my master's in either rehabilitation
>counseling, rehabilitation teaching, or teaching blind students.
>I need to probably say I've never had any real experiences teaching,
>but I am an excellent braille reader, and with there being such a
>shortage with braille teachers I figure I could do something with
>that.
>The same with rehabilitation teaching. While I have no experience with
>teaching, again, I do have skills and figure I could teach them.
>I became interested in rehabilitation counseling when I joined the
>NFB. I became very passionate about seeing blind people reach their
>full potential and getting the training they need.
>I also have severe hearing loss in addition to my blindness so I am
>also passionate about seeing others who have severe hearing loss in
>addition to blindness reach their full potential.
>My problem is though, I have no trouble writing or speaking about
>these interests but when it comes to doing things/taking action I
>struggle and become nervous and lose confidence in myself and then
>convince myself I can't do it.
>I can talk the talk but when it comes to walking the walk I have no
>idea and that is where I lose confidence in myself and become
>negative.
>Does what I wrote above sound like a good plan?
>Do others struggle with this whole thing about being afraid and unsure
>when it comes to taking action and convincing yourself you can't do
>it?
>In West Virginia, we do not have a community college. I live in the
>same town as West Virginia University, which is the state landgrand
>institution.
>I am no longer in high school;I graduated in 2006.
>Thanks so much for your input and thoughts!
>Kerri
>
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