Week 3 Assignment Bradley Sharawn My Career Narrative My educational and professional

Week 3 Assignment

Bradley Sharawn My Career Narrative

My educational and professional journey That I’m getting started on has been filled with twists and turns and highs and low points in my life I been in the medical field for over 20 + years working in different settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, homehealth, and a few doctor offices I wanted desperately to become a social worker for the longest time but I didn’t think I was able to do a bachelor’s degree program in social working so I went on to do something that was easy for me to get into which was nursing assistant 8 week training course which started me out in the medical field which I still do today later I ended up doing phlebotomy training which I completed and even gotton certified but I ended up not getting jobs in that field so after that I went on to do a medical assistant course which I completed and gotton certification in that as well it took like a year for me to get certification due to me still working and raising a family etc when I did get certification in medical assisting I still had problems with finding employment but one day in 2015 I gotton a call from the doctor office I did extern for at offered me a part-time job so I was able to get started with having experience in the medical assisting field which I ended up getting experience in that field I still did nursing assisting and medical assisting at the same time so I had both skills under my belt later down the line I decided to do a medical Billing & Coding Course which I completed and got my diploma in I didn’t get certified.

I wanted this along with my medical assisting to get a job doing billing or coding in a doctor office setting but I didn’t have certification or experience so at that Point to me it was a waste of time and money going to school for that it just looks good on my resume still never gotton a job in medical billing & coding and I’m not working in a doctor’s office right now because I don’t like the the busy atmosphere that the doctor’s office have sometimes it can be overwhelming and stressful I’m working as a nursing assistant in a facility I do 3 nights per week 12 shifts which really give me time to do other things in my life doing a Monday through Friday 9-5 is not for me working in a busy medical office it really is draining at times working as a nursing assistant versus a medical assisting nursing you can work hours you want and have more flexibility with scheduling unlike medical assisting you have only weekends off and major holidays which is good but nursing I can work hours and days I want the way I want it so to this day I still do my nursing assistant job which I did longer and have more experience in.

I worked in a couple of doctors’ offices I first started out in internal medicine then I went on to working in a primary care office then the last setting I worked in was a nephrology office kidney doctor this was the last draw with me with this medical assisting field which I shouldn’t have let get to me the office manager there was very nasty and always fired people there I don’t know why I thought it would be different for me she hired me they claimed they needed help cause she got tired of working by herself so I took on the position of booking appointments at the nephrology office for patients and and rooming patients and getting vital signs on them I came to work everyday and on time I even had a patient tell me over the phone how nasty she was to them but I couldn’t do anything cause she was the manager I ended up telling the doctor after I got fired from the office after me working there for 2 months she talked about my resume to another office manager about how I exaggerated my working abilities as a front office person with my computer skills and billing & coding she was the manager she was suppose to be training me I knew how to do most things but things I needed her help and expertise in she wouldn’t help she always had a attitude and talked about how she aint going be able to take a vacation back home to London where she was from but anyway to make a long story short I was fired from this job and I went back to working as a nursing assistant again and I gotton in touch with a old childhood friend I grew up in church with who was a social worker she went to a university and went to school on campus and got her degree in social working from Cheyney University she was telling me that she was now a school teacher now I told her about my up and downs with my career she reminded me and told me study to become a social worker you can do it online and I was like really and I was telling her how I wasted time when I could have done social working instead of the billing & coding I was tired at that point with schools but I wanted to do social working and earn a degree and get a career that I could be proud of and feel like I made a great accomplishnment in I knew I would when things was right for me in my life I was getting things in my life settled so I wouldn’t have any set backs or excuses like when I gotton started in a LPN nursing program I ended up backing out it was very demanding and I needed to work and it was hard to do nursing school fulltime and work fulltime to survive as a single parent you know I needed to work and if I wanted to study I needed more flexibility with that I passed classes in nursing but I had to let it go I knew deep down inside what I really wanted and what I was longing for far as career.

That Day came in my life that I knew for sure that I wanted better for myself and family far as career and making a career change in my life to better myself the year 2023 came was when I knew what I wanted to do far as furthing my education and to possibly get a career change that will still allow me to work with people but more on the counseling side versus the physical patient care that you have to give doing nursing I love working with people and taking care of people but I would love to interact with people in other ways far as social working more like with families and individuals dealing with people that have problems with financial issues stress child abuse or crisis situations suicide and resources to help clients in many ways I like to do this as a career I know I can do it and I like the ideal that I’m the one that would be providing my support to these individuals that are desperately in need of many different kinds of services I’m so glad I decided to get started on my journey to a rewarding career I always wanted in social working now that my youngest child is in elementary school now and with my good work schedule all this works for me and plays out really well now I can work full time and go to school full time and balance my work life and school life and personal life and still do everything I want.