When thinking of college I couldn't find anything I was interested in until attending my uncle's funeral wake and it hit me.. Mortician. I knew leaving the funeral home that day that I will be going into that field because, in the last few hours before him being cremated, I got to see my uncle again in a good light, all of the horrific details about his passing were no longer there. All I saw was my loving uncle looking as if he were just lying down for a nap and it gave me peace. Being able to give someone some kind of peace of mind, whether it is little or more. I would like to help someone through their hard times from that day forward I made sure to graduate with a 3.5 and apply for a college that has a program and I found UC. I have been working to keep my GPA above average while also making the dean's list twice, keeping my grades above C's and it's only my second year. Keeping my grades up is not only important to graduate with high honors but to have more options in life, and to give myself more opportunities.
I've had experience in my field in school doing classes that my degree requires such as Public Speaking, Accounting, and Anatomy & Physiology. The Public Speaking course specifically helped me improve my communication skills, furthering my experience with speaking to people and groups of people. Accounting will come to use when I decide to open my own funeral home and A&P gives the whole rundown on the body and then more which I will be working on for the rest of my life lol. I also traveled within a program at UCBA to network and meet people within my field. I want to experience the hands-on part of my field, reconstructing the face, putting makeup on, etc. From the personality test, my results came out me being described as a defender, Defenders have a tendency to be efficient and responsible, giving careful attention to practical details in their daily lives (16personalities, page 1) This defender characteristic falls within my profession when it comes to helping, defenders or me, in other words, would drop anything to help others in need, we have good practical skills and we are reliable. These characteristics are so important to have when going into this field because you never know when someone needs your help, this job is on 24-hour call shifts, so you have to be up reliable and available to help at any time. using those practical skills in the field goes in hand in hand with when it’s time to take action and start prepping the body to be cremated or to have a funeral service.
ABSFE code of professional conduct states we are to help anyone no matter, race, religion, disability, etc. to handle the deceased with care, and hold the utmost amount of honesty and professionalism. (ABSFE, page 1) The values of the ABSFE align with my characteristic of being a defender when it comes to helping anyone and everyone with open hands no matter the race, am efficient and when it comes to detail and professionalism, I keep everything straight, organized, and together. My 5-year plan consists of me graduating from UC, moving to Ohio to start going to the Cincinnati College of Mortuary School, then after graduating from there, I will be starting an internship. there are only two things left after graduating which are passing the board exam and then finally working in a funeral home which is my biggest aspiration. My professional goals are to improve on public speaking, build my network, and work on time management. that list of professional goals works together with my long-term goals because working on my professional goals can help better my communication and spread knowledge with future morticians. By me completing those goals by the time I graduate college, I will be fully confident and ready to succeed as I further into my career. I can make progress on those goals by getting out and meeting new people, RVSP for a bunch of different events to feel comfortable in big spaces, and taking time to make lists of my deadlines so I can have a visual look instead of going off of my head.
I will be contributing to my community every day that I would walk into my workplace because there isn’t one day that someone does not pass away, whether it’s from a disease or just a simple inconvenience and I am going to be the one with open hands waiting to help whoever is in need of funeral services whether you are the richest, poorest, race is different, or language is different my big thing is to help anyone that I can because I have an ethical obligation to care for families in those time of bereavement. If you aren’t the luckiest when it comes to money, we are still here to help not only as morticians but as people in the funeral industry who are always here to help.
Introduction. 16Personalities . https://www.16personalities.com/isfj-personality
Code of Professional Conduct. https://nfda.org/membership/join-now/code-of-professional-conduct