{"id":8166,"date":"2019-04-14T05:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T05:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2019-04-14T05:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T05:29:21","slug":"the-fears-that-come-with-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=8166","title":{"rendered":"The fears that come with careers"},"content":{"rendered":"G<\/span>raduating high school and moving onto post-secondary education is a big milestone for some and a huge fear for others. As great as moving into adulthood is, having to pick your career as a teenager may feel a little intense.<\/p>\n

Many students venture into post-secondary unsure of what they really want.<\/p>\n

Kurtis Rai, a first-year media student experienced this issue firsthand. \u201cIt took me a couple years after high school to apply, because I didn\u2019t know what exactly I wanted to do,\u201d says Rai. \u201cI knew I liked television and photography, but I wasn\u2019t sure where that could take me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Alyssa Runyon, a Guelph-Humber alumnus knows this feeling all too well. As an athlete in high school, sports were her top priority. Always living in the present, she never would have thought that she\u2019d have a doctoral degree in chiropractic today.<\/p>\n

\u201cEntering college, I had no clue of what I wanted to do with my life. I went into fitness and health promotion \u2013 I thought that I wanted to be a personal trainer, but I knew I couldn\u2019t do that until I was 65,\u201d says Dr. Runyon. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until representatives from Guelph Humber told me about kinesiology, and it was like wow, there\u2019s something more that I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even within the kinesiology program, Dr. Runyon still hadn\u2019t completely made her mind up about her end goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt never crossed my mind. Whatever semester I was in, I really embraced it and never thought any further.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

So where exactly did a kinesiology student get the idea of becoming a chiropractor? \u201cSomeone told me about chiropractic, so I watched YouTube videos about it. I thought it was pretty awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a new interest in hands-on health-care, she still carried some doubt moving on to chiropractic school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt a little insecure and almost ashamed. There was only one school in Canada and no specific prerequisite. I wasn\u2019t sure if I belonged,\u201d says Dr. Runyon. \u201cBut after a while, it was like I had been doing it all my life. I was able to notice muscles before we even learned what they were. That\u2019s when I really shut out the doubts \u2013 knowing I am supposed to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, as a Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Runyon says she has no regrets on her career choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very lucky that I landed on something that I love. I strive for flow and alignment in life and doing things that make me happy. Although chiro school was rough, just like any type of school work, it\u2019s very rewarding,\u201d says Dr. Runyon.<\/p>\n

The anxiety of the future is common for many students enrolled in college\/university. Kris Coutain, a second-year business student at Humber has the fear alike many others of being unable to get a job in his career field once he graduates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many people in my program going for the same jobs and it\u2019s almost like a competition. It\u2019s scary to think about. You invest all this time and money into education and what if you never get there,\u201d says Coutain.<\/p>\n

For those who fear the unknown, Dr. Runyon reassures that everything will be okay.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I graduated, there were 55 other chiropractors, that\u2019s enough to say that the field was oversaturated,\u201d says Dr. Runyon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you do quality work and you love and enjoy what you do, you\u2019ll never have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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