[Samuel Robert]

Samuel Robert
Pro­fes­sional Essay
10/24/17

My name is Samuel Robert and I am 18 years old. I am the last child of three chil­dren. My par­ents are im­mi­grants who came from the caribbean is­land of Haiti. I was born in Brook­lyn, New York on Feb­ru­ary 9, 1999. The first six years of my life were spent in Haiti. After my birth, my par­ents took me to Haiti to be raised and to see where they came from. At a very young age, I seen things that an av­er­age Amer­i­can kid wouldn’t have seen. Haiti is one of the poor­est coun­try in the world and it was a every­day strug­gle for peo­ple to find clean water to drink and a meal to eat. I was very for­tu­nate and grate­ful to have work­ing par­ents that was able to take care of me and the rest of the fam­ily. Even though our cir­cum­stances wasn’t the best in the world, we were just happy to have a roof over our head and food in the house. My mom was a nurse and had a phar­macy. I re­mem­ber see­ing her giv­ing extra help to her cus­tomers that cried for help. She was a help­ing hand to so­ci­ety and made it her pri­or­ity to help those who need her help. Being ex­posed to that gen­eros­ity taught me at a young age that not every­one is as for­tu­nate as you and I be­came very em­pa­thetic for peo­ple. When I came back to the U. S, the tran­si­tion was pretty easy. Learn­ing Eng­lish was a chal­lenge but not im­pos­si­ble. I at­tended Jackie Robin­son El­e­men­tary School then Dit­mas Ju­nior High School. From there, I went to Mid­wood High School and now I am cur­rently at­tend­ing New York City Col­lege of Tech­nol­ogy. I am in the Human Ser­vices pro­gram and I am going to tell you why I joined it.
My mother is my role mother. She is a hard-worker and there is noth­ing that she can not do. She is a very car­ing per­son and love to help peo­ple. She is the rea­son why I choose to get into this pro­fes­sion. I wanted to be­come a nurse like her but I am not very good in sci­ence and I hate hos­pi­tals. An­other way I knew that I can help oth­ers was by be­com­ing a Human Ser­vice worker. But that was not the only rea­son why I joined this pro­gram. I joined this pro­gram to be a role model. Human Ser­vice work­ers are ex­posed to a lot of dif­fer­ent peo­ple and cul­tures. I am ex­cited to learn about the lives of my fu­ture pa­tients and give them ad­vices that can hope­fully change their lives. Most peo­ple just want to be heard and have some­one there to ac­tively lis­ten to them and that is what I am here to do.
I am a very lay back per­son and easy to talk to. I am un­der­stand­able and try my best not to be judge­men­tal. Grow­ing up in a Chris­t­ian house­hold, I was raised around hav­ing morals and liv­ing life the right way ac­cord­ing to the doc­trine of the Bible. Faith is what I base my life around. It has made me the per­son I am today. Faith in God and faith that there is good­ness in every­one in the world. Even the cra­zi­est con or a very dan­ger­ous ter­ror­ist have some type of good­ness in my eyes. I am an ex­cel­lent lis­tener and love to give peo­ple my un­di­vided at­ten­tions when they are speak­ing. These skills are needed in Human Ser­vice and I am very grate­ful that I pos­sess these skills nat­u­rally. I know that every­one doesn’t have the same views on things and I re­spect peo­ple’s views even if it is at com­plete con­tra­dic­tory with my views. This strength is more than needed when being in the Human Ser­vices pro­fes­sional and I have that.
The client pop­u­la­tion that I would like to work with are teenagers. By work­ing with them, I can learn the new slangs that the fu­ture has to offer and be kept posted on what is going on in so­cial media. Teenagers can be re­ally hard to work with be­cause at that stage in some­one’s life, they think they know it all mean­while they know noth­ing. Most teenagers aren’t prop­erly pre­pared to enter adult­hood and do not have their pri­or­i­ties straight . Many peo­ple can be blame for this prob­lem. I want to be the per­son that ed­u­cate teens on the prob­lems that peo­ple at their age are going through and let them know that they are not alone. Teenagers are very gullible and easy to in­flu­ence. They can be very hard headed and don’t like lis­ten­ing to older peo­ple. It’s going to be very hard for me to try and get them to lis­ten to me. Es­pe­cially for the ones that don’t even lis­ten to their par­ents. I’m going to have to be very pa­tient and not be both­ered by nasty at­ti­tudes and rude com­ments. Chang­ing a per­son’s life while they are still a teenager is very ben­e­fi­cial to them mak­ing wise de­ci­sions in their adult­hood. A human ser­vice skill that I begun to de­velop is break­ing down some­one’s life and see­ing how dif­fer­ent fac­tors in peo­ple’s life can cause them to make the de­ci­sions that they make.​This skill is per­fect for work­ing with this pop­u­la­tion be­cause not many peo­ple can un­der­stand why teenagers do the things they do.
My ca­reer path to me is very bright. I plan to grad­u­ate from this pro­gram with a Bach­e­lor’s de­gree and con­tinue on to get my mas­ter’s de­gree. I am not so sure on what I want to get my mas­ter’s de­gree on but it would be some­thing that is along the line with my ca­reer. I hope to be a coun­selor and one day have my own pri­vate prac­tice. I will con­tinue to hone my skills by con­tin­u­ing to go to school and keep­ing up with the tech­niques and tech­nol­ogy that are used in my field.
In con­clu­sion, I am more than ex­cited in my jour­ney in the Human Ser­vice pro­gram. I am not re­gret­ful at all for join­ing it and I want to be the best worker I can be. Al­though many prob­lems are wait­ing for me, I am ready for the chal­lenge. I am a leader and enjoy help­ing peo­ple. I never feel out of my com­fort zone in this pro­gram and I hope it con­tin­ues that way.