The Next Steps of My Life.

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Maxime Portmann

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Word count: 2203

Choice count: 37

Section count: 24

Image count: 24

Error count: 18

Field Related Analysis

Education : 90 matches

(choice, compensation, continuing, courses, degree, don, fail, failed, first, games, grades, homework, learn, learned, learning, major, management, options, phd, school, student, students, teacher, teachers, trainee, training, university, vacation)

Sociology : 51 matches

(alienation, care, group, homework, medicine, model, open, rights, school, sector, sexual, small, tests)

Food and catering : 44 matches

(animal, animals, dad, dinner, feeding, french, happy, night, options, rest, shop)

Target Structure: (40 matches)

alienation (2 matches)

background check (1 match)

compensation (1 match)

deter (2 matches)

drawback (1 match)

foot in the door (2 matches)

fulfillment (2 matches)

hr (3 matches)

ins-and-outs (2 matches)

intern (1 match)

internship (11 matches)

lack of (1 match)

learn the ropes (1 match)

leg work (1 match)

misconduct (1 match)

more often (1 match)

office politics (1 match)

ojt (3 matches)

on-the-job-training (2 matches)

overtime (4 matches)

overwhelming (1 match)

compensation package (1 match)

pension (1 match)

perpetrator (5 matches)

premium wage (1 match)

pull off (1 match)

put aside (1 match)

recipient (2 matches)

retirement (6 matches)

sexual harassment (1 match)

straight a's (1 match)

more often than not (1 match)

thoroughly (1 match)

though (1 match)

thoughtful (1 match)

time management (1 match)

trainee (1 match)

vacant position (1 match)

wage (1 match)

worthwhile (1 match)

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The Next Steps of My Life.

University application.

This is now the time to start thinking about your future. You've been a good student getting straight A's in all of your courses. You've always been interested in Veterinary medicine. You like small animals and love to help them recover from injuries or infections. Although you've been quite tired of doing all of those homework for two years. Even if this choice could be overwhelming, your parents are here by your side to help you. Never forget, they are proud of you! You are worthwhile!

Choice 1 : Accept the offer from The University of Montreal

Choice 2 : Take a year off to save some money.

University application

In the path to become a veterinarian.

You are now in the only university teaching veterinary medicine in Quebec. You should be proud of you because only a hundred person can achieve this each year. Now it is time to learn the ropes of the veterinary medicine. Although, in the second year of your PhD you started to fail your time management. Because of this, a major drawback happen to you. Your grades are downfalling. Don't forget that you are a warrior, you will be able to pull off this degree.

Choice 1 : Take some extra works and do them thoroughly, and do a group of study with other students

Choice 2 : Continue to study as usually and do not make any changes on your study's habits

Veterinary medicine

Take a year off to save some money.

After considering all of your possibilities, you decide to take a year off to maybe gain some money and to travel to take care of yourself and your family. So now, you have to choose. You could go apply to a vacant position in a veterinary clinic nearby your house to work as a help technician. Though, you could be thoughtful and take some vacation for one month to have a well-deserved rest. It's now up to you to decide.

Choice 1 : Go work in a clinic nearby your house

Choice 2 : Take some vacation for one month to relax and to avoid alienation

year off

Take some extra work from your teachers.

Doing this group a study really improved all of your grades! You've now finished your five-year degree in veterinary medicine. What are you going to do now that it's finished. You could either do an internship in small animal or in farm animal. You'll work as an intern, and it could help you put a foot in the door to your future job.

Choice 1 : Go to small animals internship

Choice 2 : Go to farm animals internship

group of study

You fail your degree in Veterinary medicine.

You fail your final tests because of you laziness. Maybe, you should try another program, because this one is clearly not for you! All of your friends are now veterinarian, and you don't have a real degree at university. Your dad and your mom are so upset about you. You have to repair your mistakes. You could either take again a year in Veterinary medicine or you can just drop-out of school and start your own pet shop.

Choice 1 : Take again a year in Veterinary medicine

Choice 2 : Start your own pet shop

you are a failure

Working in a clinic nearby your house.

After doing a quick background check, the HR department give you the job. You attended your first week at work as a trainee. After one month at work, you realize that you have feelings for one of your coworkers. When you ask her, it seems like she feels the same way from you. The office politics are clear on that, you can't work in the same place as your girlfriend. You now have two choices. Either you decide to hide the relation with Anna, or you tell Human Resources department about this relation.

Choice 1 : Hide the relation with Anna

Choice 2 : Tell the Human ressources department about this relation

Veterinary clinic

Take some vacation well-deserved.

You decide to go on vacation in Tahiti. This island is well-known for beautiful landscapes. When you arrive at your destination, you take a hotel room and leave your luggage in the room. You decide to go to the beach. When you arrive at the beach, you see someone misconduct when talking to a girl. The girl seems annoyed by the perpetrator. You think that it might be a type of sexual harassment. You can either help the girl and deter the perpetrator, or you can just enjoy the beach and the beautiful landscapes.

Choice 1 : Help the girl and deter the perpetrator

Choice 2 : Enjoy the beach and the beautiful landscapes

Tahiti landscapes

Internship in small animals.

After learning the ins-and-outs of this new area of Veterinary medicine, you achieve your internship easily. You feel a lot of fulfillment in this career. At the end of your internship, the director of the clinic offers you to do an on-the-job-training (OJT), so you could be a vet surgeon on small animals. You can either accept the offer and assure you to gain a premium wage, or you can start your own clinic and risk your life.

Choice 1 : Do the OJT and become a surgeon for small animals

Choice 2 : Start a clinic for small animals

Internship in small animals

Internship in farm animals.

The first week in your internship was correct. Although when you started to examine the cow, the cow began to be aggressive and to hit you. The cow broke your right leg and your right leg. You decide to stop this internship because of those injuries. After one month you realized that you're clearly not build up for this type of medicine because you have a lack of strength. You receive a phone call telling you that the internship in small animals is still available. That is a great opportunity to get a foot in the door in small animal medicine.

Choice 1 : Internship in small animals.

Aggressive cow

Another year in veterinary medicine.

You have now achieved your degree in veterinary medicine. Your parents are now happy that this story is behind you. Since you took an extra year to finish your degree, you can't do an internship. That's why you begin to search a clinic to work in. After twenty great years of doing veterinary medicine, you retire. Your pension for your retirement is enough to finish your life happily. You decide to do like each old Canadian French and to go to Florida each winter. Enjoy your retirement!

Choice 1 : Retry this story with other paths

Retirement in Florida

Start your own pet shop.

Since you failed your degree, you decide to open your own pet shop company. More often than not, you need to do overtime to keep alive your pet shop. It seems like this pet shop is much harder to take care of that you thought. You have two options. Either you continue to take care of it, or you sell it for one million dollars and take this money for your retirement.

Choice 1 : Do overtime to keep alive your clinic

Choice 2 : Sell the pet shop for one million dollars

Start your own pet shop

Hide the relation with Anna.

You decide to hide the relation with the love of your life Anna. The HR found out about this secret relation and decide to kick you from the clinic. You are upset but you are resilient. After one month of doing nothing, you realise that you should try something new. You could either apply in veterinary since they want you, or you could continue doing some little jobs until you take your retirement.

Choice 1 : Apply in Veterinary medicine

Choice 2 : Finish your life with Anna by doing small jobs on the side

Relation with Anna

Tell to the Human Resources department about your relation with Anna.

The HR department loved your sincerity. Because of that, they gave you two options. The first one is to continue working here but to put aside your relation with Anna. The second one is to stay with Anna but to leave the clinic with a compensation package for your years of good services and to study Veterinary medicine.

Choice 1 : Study Veterinary medicine

Choice 2 : Leave Anna and continue working in the clinic

Sincerity always pays

Help the recipient with her perpetrator.

The recipient is so happy that you helped her take away that perpetrator from her way. You begin to learn a little more about her till the end of the day. At the end of the day, she decides to take you out for dinner, and you accept it. In the middle of dinner, she proposes you to spend the rest of the vacation with her.

Choice 1 : Decline her offer and go back in Canada to study Veterinary medicine

Choice 2 : Finish your vacation with her

Sexual harassment

Look at the landscapes on the beach.

You decide to not help the girl. When you go back to the hotel you open the TV and see that there was a girl killed and raped on the same beach you were today. You understand right away that it was the girl you saw earlier being harassed. You felt so bad for this girl and couldn't sleep all night because of that. After this event, you decide to take your life in hands and to start to be a speaker for women's rights and other similar causes. You travel the world to raise awareness about this important cause for the rest of your life.

Choice 1 : Retry this story with other paths

Women's rights

On-the-job-training.

You have now finished your OJT. You've learned all the ins-and-outs of the veterinary profession. You are a well-reputed veterinary and every client loves you. You feel a lot of fulfillment and are happy about your life. It is now time for you to retire. You could either retire and spend good time with your family or you could go work at university to be a teacher for future veterinary students.

Choice 1 : Retire and spend time with your family

Choice 2 : Go work at university to future veterinarian

Surgeon for small animals

Start a clinic for small animal medicine.

You decide to start a clinic for small animals. It goes well, even so well that you decide to open some other clinic all over Canada. You finish your life as a millionaire. You enjoy your retirement with a lot of vacations and luxury.

Choice 1 : Retry this story with different paths

Luxury

Continue to put overtime to keep alive your pet shop.

You continue to put overtime in your job, and it paid off. The leg work wasn't that easy, but you still achieved it. You finish your life in this sector. Your retirement is quite okay, and you are still working in the pet shop as you love this place so much.

Choice 1 : Retry this story with other paths

overtime

Sell your pet shop.

You sell your pet shop for a million dollar. After one year, you die in your room due to an AVC. Seems like having a lot of money cannot change your life.

Choice 1 : Retry this story with other paths

AVC

Finish your life with small jobs.

You finish your life doing small jobs on the side while continuing your relation with Anna. Since your not stable with your jobs, a lot of stress and alienation are suddenly haunting you. Due to that, your doctor tells you that you have cancer due to massive stress habits. You die one year and a half after chemotherapy. Anna is so sad.

Choice 1 : Retry the story with different paths

cancer

Leave Anna and continue your job at the clinic.

You decide to continue the job and to leave Anna. The first weeks are awkward. After 20 years, you realise that this was the biggest mistake of your life. You decide to retire and finish your life all alone. The next time, try to weigh the pros and the cons!

Choice 1 : Retry this story with other options

Alone

Finish your vacation with her.

You finish your vacation with you. At the end of the vacation, she asks you to stay here with here because she's in love with you. You accept and open a zoo with her. You find your way by feeding and spending time with tropical animals. You finish your life in Tahiti with the love of your life.

Choice 1 : Retry all the options of your life

Zoo

Retire and spend good time with family.

The end of your life is happy. You achieved a lot in your life and that is why you mean a lot to everybody all around you. Continue to spread awareness and to help your family.

Choice 1 : Try other options !

Happy grandfather

Go work as a teacher.

You decide to go work as a teacher at The University of Montreal in Saint-Hyacinthe. Your students love the way you are passionate about surgery in small animals. You are a model to them. After ten years of teaching you stop teaching and spend the rest of your life travelling and playing games with your family.

Choice 1 : Try other options !

Vet teacher