Drew Bebutov

Prof. Jeni Tetamore

ENG 122

07 May 2021

Career Exploration Proposal

Introduction

When it comes to my career choice, I decided that I wanted to pursue becoming

a PA (Physician Assistant). Before finding out about the job, I wasn't really sure as to

what I wanted to do, but I had a love for science and medical professions interested me.

I found out about the job through my mom's recommendation since she works at a

medical center and knows about the different careers that exist there. One big thing I

had to keep in my mind was how often people would change their careers. I understand

that many people change the careers they want to pursue, but I believe that choosing

physician assistant as a career will help with that. I hope that through this expedition, I

will really push myself out of my comfort zone and progress farther toward my goal and

my future.

Explanation

This topic is important to me because it's my future that I am working towards.

This is something that will affect me for the rest of my life even if I don't end up choosing

this specific career since the experience of this expedition will be important in shaping

how I move forward in life. I hope that with researching this topic, I will learn more about
the career as well as the steps necessary to achieve my goals. I believe that becoming

more active and doing more than just studying is vital to getting ahead in the future. I

want to use these future projects to persuade people into learning more about PAs as

well as informing them about it myself.

Audience

When it comes to the audience, the best person who all this research is aimed

towards is me. The main reason for this expedition is for me to learn more about this

career all at the same time as teaching others. All this research can be used by others

with the same interest to become a PA, however the main audience is myself and that

will affect the research. It will be less of me simply writing a paper and more of me

planning for the future. The audiences of the projects in the future will be the same

since all the research will be aimed at learning as much as possible about PAs except

some of them may be leaned more towards informing.

Methodology

I plan on completing my research by using online sources as well as hospitals in

my area. I tried to volunteer at hospitals at the end of senior year, however covid

happened and my plans were paused so that's a plan for the future. These writing

projects can be used in order to do as much research in different ways so that I can

understand as much as I possibly can. I will be doing research first by using the term

Physician Assistant and from there diving deeper into topics that I find interesting or

those which I don't understand. Of course there will be obstacles that will stand in my

way, but perseverance will be essential in helping me get through them. Two of the

main obstacles will be laziness and procrastination and in order to counter that, I want
to make a plan of action. It is easy to simply say you will do something, but when you

lay it all out, it is much easier to follow.

Conclusion

I hope that through this expedition, I will really push myself out of my comfort

zone and progress farther toward my goal. PA is a distant goal, but one that I need to

start working towards now if I want to make it a reality. Having a plan will be very

important in ensuring all my work. Being able to push off certain things will really hurt

you and having a plan will make it just that much more difficult to do so.