My career as a criminologist.

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Francois Gagnon

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Word count: 1409

Choice count: 34

Section count: 24

Image count: 24

Error count: 1

Field Related Analysis

Education : 68 matches

(cegep, choice, class, classes, college, failing, field, first, grades, graduation, school, taught, technology, university)

Business : 41 matches

(business, discount, economy, employee, firm, manager, money, office, pay, store, technology)

Law : 32 matches

(arrested, close, crime, criminology, escape, family, felony, house, inmate, law, law firm, office, paralegal)

Target Structure: (11 matches)

come in handy (1 match)

foot in the door (1 match)

intern (1 match)

internship (5 matches)

office politics (1 match)

overtime (1 match)

overwhelm (1 match)

pension (1 match)

set aside (1 match)

worthwhile (1 match)

theft (1 match)

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My career as a criminologist.

Which school should I go to?

I am about to finish cegep at Ahuntsic College in Paralegal Technology. I wish to pursue my studies in criminology at university. I live close to Laval, and I am looking for the greatest school to attend. I am stuck and I need to decide fast.

Choice 1 : Go to the University of Montreal.

Choice 2 : Go to the University Laval.

Ahuntsic College

Go to the University of Montreal.

You decided to attend the University of Montreal, and you are loving it. You get good grades and enjoy your professors. The four years have flown by so fast, and it's now time to look for an internship. You can't decide if you want to work in a prison or a law firm. Which one are you going to pick?

Choice 1 : Work in a law firm.

Choice 2 : Work in a prison.

University of Montreal

Work in a prison.

You fell in love with an inmate. You tried to help him escape. Unfortunately, he betrayed you by stabbing you, and you died.

Choice 1 : Start over

inmate

Work in a law firm.

You just started your internship in a law firm, and you thought you would like it, but you are not enjoying it. The problem is that nobody likes you since you are the new one they make you do all the work that they are supposed to do. You are exhausted and overwhelm.

Choice 1 : Find a new internship.

Choice 2 : Stay there and try to make it work.

Law firm

Find a new internship.

After your bad experiences at the last law firm, you try to find an internship in a new one. You finally found one! After your first day, you are in love with this work, and you know you want to do this for the rest of your life and this job has good office politics not like the last one.

Choice 1 : Work in this law firm for the rest of your life and be happy.

law firm

Stay there and try to make it work.

You stayed at this law firm and your coworkers are still mean and make you do all the work every day. You are really not happy with this job, but you need it to pay your bills. You are on the verge of a depression.

Choice 1 : Quit your job.

Choice 2 : Stay at the law firm and hurt yourself mentally.

crying

Quit your job.

You decided to quit your job, and you are not able to pay your bills anymore. You are now homeless during the winter time. You were so cold that you died freezing on the streets.

Choice 1 : Start over.

Freezing

Stay at the law firm and hurt yourself mentally.

You decided to stay at the law firm, but it is not getting better. The coworkers are abusing you with all their work, so you now have a burn-out, and you can't work anymore.

Choice 1 : Stay home and take care of yourself.

Burn-out

Stay home and take care of yourself.

After seeing a psychologist and a long break from work, you are now doing better. You are now ready to get back to business, and you decide to back to university to study another field related with criminology.

Choice 1 : Go back to university.

doing better

Go to the University Laval.

You decided to go to the University Laval, so you moved to Quebec, and you are now leaving without your parents for the first time. You don't know if university is the place for you because you are not organized, so you are late in every class, and you really miss home.

Choice 1 : Stay at the university.

Choice 2 : Go back home.

University Laval

Stay at the university.

You decided to stay at the university and tried to be more organize than ever. You are no longer late in your classes. You have worked so hard that you got straight A's. You need to find a job now because you used almost all of your economy. Your money might come in handy later.

Choice 1 : Work at McDonald's.

Choice 2 : Work in a grocery store.

Not more money

Go back home.

You decided to return home to your family. Your parents were so furious that they ejected you from your home because they were paying for your university for nothing. They decided to kick you out of the house, and you have no money. You looked for work, but no one was interested in hiring you because you had no experience. You decided to start stealing food to stay alive, and you got caught. You are now in jail.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Jail

Work at McDonald's.

You love your job here because you can get a discount on food, and it is your favourite restaurant. This job also makes you earn a great amount of money. Since you were doing an excellent job, your boss asks you if you want to become a manager instead of being a normal employee.

Choice 1 : Become a manager.

Choice 2 : Stay as a normal employee.

McDonalds

Work in a grocery store.

You started to work at a grocery store, and you are a little disappointed because you taught it would make earn a lot of money, but it doesn't. This job makes you think you are in a dead-end. You start thinking about stealing in the store to keep your money.

Choice 1 : Start stealing.

Choice 2 : Work more hours.

grocery store

Become a manager.

After saying yes to your boss to become a manager, you don't have time for school anymore because you have more hours at your job now. Set aside all of your effort, you are now failing all of your classes and you got kicked out of the university for not doing any effort.

Choice 1 : Start over

overbooked

Stay as a normal employee.

You decided to continue to work as a normal employee to focus on school to become a criminologist one day since it is your dream. You got straight A's all year. Also, graduation is around the corner so all of your hard work as pays off. All your effort has guaranteed you a spot as an intern, so it is a really big foot in the door.

Choice 1 : Go to graduation.

A

Go to graduation.

You finally graduated! You can now pursue your career as a criminologist and work with the criminals like you have wanted to do since you were 12 years old. You will have a really good job and in the end, it will have some advantages like a pension. You totally deserve it!

Choice 1 : Work as a criminologist

Graduation

Start stealing.

You started stealing in the store. It has been a few weeks, and you have not been caught. You try to steal today but your coworker saw you and called the cops.

Choice 1 : Tell them that you were not stealing.

Choice 2 : Admit that it is not your first time stealing.

police

Tell them that you were not stealing.

The cops do not believe you, so they decide to check to security cameras, and they saw that you were doing that for weeks now. You are arrested for committing a theft which is a felony, and you are going to prison.

Choice 1 : Start again.

arrested

Admit that it is not your first time stealing.

You tried being honest about your stealing history, and why you were doing it, but the cops were to happy about that.

Choice 1 : Pay for all the things you stole.

Choice 2 : Go to jail.

honesty

Pay for all the things you stole.

You clearly do not have enough money to pay for all the things you stole. There is nothing you can do.

Choice 1 : Go to jail.

broke

Go to jail.

You have been sentenced for 5 years in jail for stealing over $1000 and also because you lied to the police about a crime you did.

Choice 1 : Start over.

jail

Work more hours.

You tried working some overtime shift, but it is not really worthwhile because they don't pay you enough for the job you do.

Choice 1 : Quit your job.

overtime

Quit your job.

You have no money to buy food or anything, so starve yourself but after some time you die.

Choice 1 : Start over.

dead