At this very moment, my future goals are kind of everywhere. I have short term and long term future goals. My short term future goals consist of graduating college with an athletic training degree and to be accepted into a graduate program. Everything is simple and organized up to that point. Once I pass that point of future goals, everything starts turning into back and forth, ever changing thoughts and ideas. I am not yet certain on what exactly I want to go to graduate school for, but the toss up is currently between exercise science and kinesiology. My long term goals are also changing everyday, and are currently a list of options and ideas that I can think about and potentially choose. These include, but are not limited to, working with athletes as a rehabilitative/strengthening coach, being an athletic trainer and a strength coach separately, only doing athletic training, or working with athletes on preventative injury training. All of these ideas of a possible future goal or career is geared towards a very active lifestyle that consists of working with the human body and knowing the human body, as well as assisting athletes and people in bettering themselves. As of now, I probably have not researched enough about how to reach these goals, partly because my goal is always changing. However, I have discussed the options with teachers, my mom (who works in the health field), and people who work in the fields that I am interested in. I have also looked up graduate programs that merge several of the things that I am interested in; for instance, there is a graduate program for exercise science that allows you to pick a focus and one of the options is athletic training. The people I have talked to have all suggested picking a program that allows me to branch out into several things. I am trying to narrow down my choices on what I really want though. I am hoping to shadow a few people in respective fields this summer and maybe intern somewhere that is related to one of my interests. I feel like that would be a really good way to see and get a feel for what each option is like. Additional information that I need is probably information related to the specifics of what is required for each graduate program and what the specific program entails. I have talked a lot about these different options, but I really need to sit down and do the research for each and weigh out my options.
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