Felicia Ho

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Tag: Life Skills

Individual Pathway Story

This is my Individual Pathway Story, detailing my present and how this might lead to my future aspirations. This revolves around 3 main themes: The Self, My Learning and My Working Future. The intended outcome of this task was to allow the student to explore their current self and their future opportunities in the professional world.


The Self

The first section of this task explores personal identity and perception. I believe that the values form a basis for identity, as one relies on them heavily to make decisions, and this influences what one holds in esteem as well.

My values can be summed up as integrity, persistence and conscientiousness. My first value, integrity, ensures that I can live in an authentic and honest manner with those around me, by following effective rules and behaving in a morally correct manner. My second and third values, persistence and conscientiousness, are quite closely linked. I prefer to make deliberate choices and work towards long term goals in an efficient manner so I might fulfil my highest need, Self Actualization. Another part of this is that I strive to be faithful to the promises I make, and, as, I frequently find myself desiring to do well in what ever I do, persistence and conscientiousness are values that I rely on heavily. In the same perspective, I dislike inefficiency and closed-mindedness.

Another aspect to my identity is my personal attributes and interests. I perceive myself as a curious and ambitious person, and I would say that others may perceive me as slightly reserved and unusual (although I may be horribly incorrect in both.) I am quite interested in soaking up knowledge and learning about different perspectives and analysing the world around me. Skills I believe I possess are the ability to learn quickly, to see implied meaning and to investigate.


My Learning

My learning pertains to what subjects I enjoy, how I learn and my future educational goals. Although I thoroughly enjoy learning (as stated in the former paragraph), I would not be able to point to a favourite subject(s) as I find different parts interesting. For example, I like that maths is objective and speaks to relationships between numbers, however, I also appreciate the interpretation and creative factor in English. I enjoy Humanities and Science because they give me information about the world around me, including the natural world and society. Electives I undertake are French and Drama. I enjoy seeing the language and cultural differences in French (as opposed to English), and in Drama, it is exciting to embody a new character in a different world. In addition to the core subjects, I learn Religion & Philosophy, Health, Life Skills and Sport. Through the VARK Model, I would say that I learn well through Reading although I think that they are all quite balanced. Through Carl Jung’s Model of Learning, I learn in an Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging manner. (This also links to Carl Jung’s Personality Model). After high school, I wish to attend university and study law.


My Working Future

The final section of this task sums up by letting the students explore different future options, which gives them a goal to work towards with tangible steps. The occupation I chose to explore was Law, as I find the matter interesting. You can study law by obtaining a Bachelors Degree (you can do this via Juris Doctor) and after that, it is fairly common to complete a Masters Degree. The standards of entry to Law School and or assured pathways are rigorous, requiring a high ATAR and after this, a high GPA. Following this, lawyers work in private and corporate legal offices, and some work for government.

A reflection on $20Boss Term 4, 2021

Supported by our experience in previous markets and driven by the ambition to further improve, our group had a clear vision of what we wanted.

Previously, our group had sold soy candles, and while we agreed that it was successful, there would be increased competition with the onset of other candle groups as well as little creative freedom due to a rigid structure to follow when one made the candles.

In line with the upcoming Christmas season, we decided to produce laser cut Christmas cards under the name “GreetYourself”, a memorable play on the notable words “treat yourself.” At the market itself, we produced a large amount of revenue, more than four of our previous, selling out in the first 45 minutes. We were also much more organized and creative in the process and had a highly successful outcome. Something that was quite intriguing was that unlike candles and notebooks (our previous products), the cards were not overly labour intensive, as the laser cutter was tasked with the most laborious work of carving the designs that we had previously transferred to Adobe. With this, we all gained valuable skills, most significant were our newly polished Adobe skills and our ability to work the laser-cutter.

This terms journey was an intentional one, with organization, problem-solving and innovation being the backbone of it all.

Our table set up. To improve, I would perhaps prepare some sort of mount before, so as to appear polished and professional.

As per our unofficial goal, we were certainly more organized, slotting in specific bookings with the school’s laser cutter to carve our cards and most importantly, formatting the designs for the cutter before then.

Once our cards were carved, we had to problem-solve to find a way to incorporate colour and a clean writing spot. The method shall not be disclosed, however, they did make for a sleek, unique, innovative finished design, that, when displayed upon our well-set table, attracted many eager buyers, with one even buying up to 10+ cards.

A thought-provoking aspect of GreetYourself was the price. Our products had to meet an equilibrium, not too low for the sake of profits and not too high for the customer. Curiously enough, our initial price was said by a/the facilitator to be too low, as “crafty” cards like ours sold up to double, even triple our proposed price. Heeding their advice, we did increase our price, however, next time, we should research the market and not involve our self-deprecating thoughts that “no one would want to pay ” et cetera.

The All Saints’ print ad.

Even though we used the markup formula, in retrospect, this shouldn’t have been the primary way for settling on the final price. It would have been more effectively used in conjunction with other methods, such as surveying our target audience for what they would pay vs what we would take as a profit, the equilibrium formula, cost-plus pricing and the one that we should have been less careless to overlook, market comparison.

Our product idea was innovative, timely and filled in a gap in our market. To improve, I would consider other unseen aspects and research thoroughly before making a decision. The process was fun, rewarding and gave us a plethora of new skills to add to our ever-growing collection, as well as an exciting profit.

The Design Thinking Process that we followed.

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