My
name is Connagh Hanratty, I am 18 years old and I study information technology
(IT) at MidKent College, although I am studying IT my biggest love is for
things such as gaming. Just after Christmas I am opening my own YouTube gaming
channel for others to watch me play while I commentate. I have been told to do
this many times by lots of different people and after long consideration I have
decided to just go for it.
After
all of this at College, there are two things that I wish to do which I cannot decide
upon. One is the job that I will be writing about soon and number two is to go
to university. I have recently visited friends in Birmingham City University
and I really enjoyed my stay there. I really liked their accommodation and
learned a lot about the course that they are doing and it does interest me, the
course is an IT course.
I
will now give you a run-down of the job that I wish to aim for either after
college or after university.
This is a
job opening for: CONTRACT - IT Associate/System Administrator for Nintendo in America.
I
have found a job that I have a great interest in. It is a place in Nintendo in
America and that is an graphics designer for Nintendo.
The
job requires you to know quite a lot about graphics and GFX, this is because I
would be helping to come up with different designs. For example, if a new
Pokemon game were to come out, different people are assigned to create
different Pokemon and this is something I would love to do.
I
feel as if I couldn’t carry out this job just yet as I do not have the technical
skills and abilities to do so. Although I may not have them just yet, I am
doing a course right now to hopefully get the skills that are necessary to do
this job. I will have to work hard during this course to be able to feel
comfortable doing this job.
Although
I may not have the technical abilities just yet, I feel as if I have the soft
skills to do it already. I am a good listener, I am able to come up with
solutions easily to problems that have been created and I am known to be able
to get the job done when the time is needed, no questions asked. Although I do
prefer to work on my own, individually, I can work as a team with others when
it is needed. I feel as if I could definitely improve on this though, I feel as
if I could make sure that I get better at working as a team.
·
Technical skills I already have: I have studied IT at A level standard and I’m
doing a course in It as well, hopefully after this course I will gain the
skills that is required of me to fulfil the task of this job.
·
Technical skills I need to develop: I will need to develop my IT skills to help me
to feel comfortable with being an associate or a system admin.
·
Soft skills I already have: I am a good listener and I am able to come up
with solutions easily for problems that have been made. I can work in a team
but I do prefer to work individually.
·
Soft skills I need to develop on: I feel as if I can definitely improve on my
people skills. I have no problem working with others, but I could maybe make
sure that I put my own ideas out there.
My plan:
My plan is to finish
college with decent grades, good enough to get into Birmingham City University
and then go on to work in the job that I have written about above. I do plan to
stay on for the full two years of the course, but if I do somehow (through a miracle)
manage to get a job like this after the first year of college then I will
contemplate taking it and hopefully go for it if it does in fact feel like it’s
what I want to do.
Targets:
I am going to set myself
the targets of trying to complete assignments as early as possible, this gives
more time for it to be marked and will give me more time for corrections and
feedback. Another one is to start listening more, I tend to slightly drift away
for brief periods of time and I have noticed myself missing something quite
important because of it.
