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Thank you comment icon Ken makes some good points. Taking an interest survey such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can be very helpful in aiding your career path choices. You can also take survey's on job candidate pages such as Monster.com. Taking a survey to determine your personality type and using the survey's tools to analyze how your interests may match a career field may assist in steering you towards a rewarding and enjoyable job. Here's a link to the Monster site: https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/best-free-career-assessment-tools Jon Gullett
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The best way to find the answer to this question is to talk to people who are involved in astronautical engineering through interpersonal networking. However, what is most important is how this field relates to your personality traits and how they are aligned with people who are working in this field.


Getting to know yourself and how your personality traits relate to people involved in various career opportunities is very important in your decision making process. During my many years in Human Resources and College Recruiting, I ran across too many students who had skipped this very important step and ended up in a job situation which for which they were not well suited. Selecting a career area is like buying a pair of shoes. First you have to be properly fitted for the correct size, and then you need to try on and walk in the various shoe options to determine which is fits the best and is most comfortable for you to wear. Following are some important steps which I developed during my career which have been helpful to many .


Many people involved in this area got their start at their local community college, as the classes are smaller, the costs are more reasonable, and they have opportunities for coop and internship programming which will allow one to earn and learn and experience the inside view of the career area. It would be interesting for you visit the director of alumni relations at your local community college to arrange to visit and talk to graduates working in your career area to interest to see what they do, how they got there, and what suggestions and advice they might have for you.

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The first step is to take an interest and aptitude test and have it interpreted by your school counselor to see if you share the personality traits necessary to enter the field. You might want to do this again upon entry into college, as the interpretation might differ slightly due to the course offering of the school. However, do not wait until entering college, as the information from the test will help to determine the courses that you take in high school. Too many students, due to poor planning, end up paying for courses in college which they could have taken for free in high school.
Next, when you have the results of the testing, talk to the person at your high school and college who tracks and works with graduates to arrange to talk to, visit, and possibly shadow people doing what you think that you might want to do, so that you can get know what they are doing and how they got there. Here are some tips: ## http://www.wikihow.com/Network ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/nonawkward-ways-to-start-and-end-networking-conversations ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/4-questions-to-ask-your-network-besides-can-you-get-me-a-job?ref=carousel-slide-1 ##
Locate and attend meetings of professional associations to which people who are doing what you think that you want to do belong, so that you can get their advice. These associations may offer or know of intern, coop, shadowing, and scholarship opportunities. These associations are the means whereby the professionals keep abreast of their career area following college and advance in their career. You can locate them by asking your school academic advisor, favorite teachers, and the reference librarian at your local library. Here are some tips: ## https://www.careeronestop.org/BusinessCenter/Toolkit/find-professional-associations.aspx?&frd=true ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/9-tips-for-navigating-your-first-networking-event ##
It is very important to express your appreciation to those who help you along the way to be able to continue to receive helpful information and to create important networking contacts along the way. Here are some good tips: ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-informational-interview-thank-you-note-smart-people-know-to-send?ref=recently-published-2 ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/3-tips-for-writing-a-thank-you-note-thatll-make-you-look-like-the-best-candidate-alive?bsft_eid=7e230cba-a92f-4ec7-8ca3-2f50c8fc9c3c&bsft_pid=d08b95c2-bc8f-4eae-8618-d0826841a284&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_20171020&utm_source=blueshift&utm_content=daily_20171020&bsft_clkid=edfe52ae-9e40-4d90-8e6a-e0bb76116570&bsft_uid=54658fa1-0090-41fd-b88c-20a86c513a6c&bsft_mid=214115cb-cca2-4aec-aa86-92a31d371185&bsft_pp=2 ##
Here are sites that will allow you to learn more about the opportunites s in engineering: ## https://www.engineergirl.org/ ## ## http://www.futureengineers.org/ ## ## https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zVcmTJSKM ## ## http://stemtosteam.org/ ## ## https://www.asme.org/career-education/articles/undergraduate-students/engineering-still-needs-more-women #3
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Ken makes some good points. Taking an interest survey such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can be very helpful in aiding your career path choices. You can also take survey's on job candidate pages such as Monster.com. Taking a survey to determine your personality type and using the survey's tools to analyze how your interests may match a career field may assist in steering you towards a rewarding and enjoyable job. Here's a link to the Monster site: https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/best-free-career-assessment-tools
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