My name is Delaney Nelson and I am a Junior at Danville School. I'm in an independent class called Compass and everyone in the class is researching a career they are thinking about going into after high school or just something they are interested in and would like to know more about. I have taken this class at least four times since my freshman year and have changed my research path three or more times throughout the last three years. Over the summer of 2021 I worked at a daycare called ABC LOL. I saw children who were not being taken care of like they needed to be, such as: not having clean clothes, not getting enough sleep, and being unable to eat healthy meals at home. After working in this facility for a while everything I was seeing got me thinking about what I personally could do to help not only these children but other children who may be going through the same struggles or worse.
This semester I have decided to research becoming a social worker. This sparked my interest after seeing some of the children I work with. I have been assigned three products, a final product, and this blog post. These are all projects to study different things within this career that I may be interested in or just want to know more about in the field and to give other people a better understanding of what a social worker is, how they make a major impact in today's society, and the different job opportunities they have depending on their degree. After researching into this job field I have decided I would like to still have a career to help children but not becoming a social worker. Instead of becoming a social worker I have decided to look more into early childhood education. Throughout these products I have learned beyond the information I thought I was going to learn about what kind of people are most important in a child's life. Studying social work has been a huge stepping stone into deciding where I want to go with my future and what classes are going to benefit me most while still in high school. After going back and forth with having to spending six years in college to get my masters degree in social work to sticking with being a daycare provider I have decided I don't think either would be a good fit. After thinking about what I want to do with my future I have decided that after high school it would be better to go into early childhood education. Going into this career field is just as important as social work. This class has brought me to broaden my knowledge of not only working with children but how the world can be so cruel to them. Going into the field of childhood education may be able to make a big difference on how children view the world and the people they interact with.
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