Mentee: Brittany BeachMentor: Kari Laudenslager

Finding My Career

Our Two Hands & Their PurposeEveryone is given two hands. With these hands, they have a job. Whether that job is changing a diaper, putting together a lamp, or fixing someone’s heart. We all have a job we do with our hands. God gave me a purpose. He gave me two hands that I believe are to be used for fixing people’s hearts.

HEARTLESS?

Stereotype of a Surgeon• Cold• Depressed• Know-it-alls• Incapable Of Love • Pessimistic View

– God’s Gift To Humanity– Misunderstood– Hard Life

MEAN?

MEAN?

Why Medicine? Model

the Way

Inspire a Shared Vision

Challenge the Process

Enable Others to

Act

Encourage the Heart

• Enable Others to Act• Service to Others

• Model the Way• Leadership Qualities

• Encourage the Heart• Career Assessment

• Experience• Passion and Love of Science

Doubtful Career Path

• Twelve Years Later– Medicine

• Three Years I Have Pictured A Surgeon

• College Made Me Uncertain About Medicine– Challenging Semester Last

Year– Questions Entered My Head.– From A Community College

To A University• More Challenging

???

• volunteering with the hospital– Something I looked

forward to

• What I did• Who I worked with– Beth & Brenda

USA Children & Women’s Hospital

Volunteer Christmas Party (December 2014) I am not pictured.

Evaluating Surgeon & Child Life Specialist• Babysitting

• Congenital Heart Defect (CHD)

• Child Life Specialist• making a difference to

him.• Making sure other

children can understand what will happen to them when the doctor takes care of him

• Help ease his pain.

I Choose….

a job where I can work with kids.

Special Thank You to…

This project was made so much easier with help from my amazing two Child Life Specialists Mrs. Brenda and Mrs. Beth, from USA Children & Women’s Hospital. They influenced me in my time volunteering. I thank them for taking time to make sure I was comfortable and helping me to step outside my comfort zone.

Lastly, Thank you to Mrs. Kari. She was a wonderful help. She even helped me look at some new colleges, new majors, and reminded me about the progress reports. This project would be a mess without her help.