How do I know which career would be best for me?

Links:
http://www.helpguide.org/life/finding_career.htm
http://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/career.shtml
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2010/12/06/how-to-choose-a-career-thats-best-for-you

Summary:
   To find the career that best fits you, there are several factors you should count. Among those factors, you find: yours skills, interests, expectations. First, think about what do like to do or what comes easy for you. When you identify that, you can get involved in activities or classes to help you develop that skills and/or put it in practice. You can also do career test to get an idea of what you're really good at. You might not like what your results suggest but maybe it will make you think about what you're really good at and help you look/research about careers that require those skills that you have.
    If you discover that you are interested in a certain area, then you can start looking for jobs that have to do with it. You can also ask people that have certain jobs that catch your attention, and find out more about those jobs. Also think about what jobs are going to be in demand and promise you a great future.

Question:
What careers are or will be in demand?

Proxies

I don't know anything about this topic, but I have heard of proxies.

What I want to learn:
What are proxies?
Why are they useful or not?

Links:
http://www.optimum7.com/internet-marketing/technology/what-are-proxies.html
http://www.techterms.com/definition/proxyserver
http://proxy-services-review.toptenreviews.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-proxy-services.html

What I learned:

• Protect your information.
• Allows you to view websites and their information without them receiving your information.
• They work  for security purposes but they can also be used to block access to websites.
• There are several types of proxies: Catching Proxy Server, Web Proxy, Anonymizing Proxy Server and Hostile Proxy.
• Catching Proxy Server- Speeds up user's request.
• Web Proxy- Filters content.
• Anonymizing Proxy Server- Anonymous web surfing 
• Hostile Proxy- Captures information about webpages and forms users fill/visits.
• You can't really know if the proxy server is really protecting your information or just collecting it until your identity is compromised.

Summary:
     Proxies can help me protect my information while I'm web surfing, but there's really no way to know if it really is working or not. There are several types of proxies with different purposes. If in a future, I choose to open a company I can also use proxy servers to block access to my employees to some websites. Also when I'm older and have my kids, I can use proxy servers to control what sites they go to and block contents.

Questions:
Is there a way to get around proxies? (hack them)

Google Day 1

1. Download Google SketchUp.
2. Watch the video tutorials.
3. Apply what I saw on the videos on the program.

SketchUp New Users Tutorials: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/es/training/videos/new_to_gsu.html

First Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPkv9tRuO-c&feature=player_embedded
This video showed some of the basics of Google SketchUp. It taught you how to use some tools like zoom, drag, orbit, push and pull (makes things 3D) and how to draw simple things (lines, rectangles, circles, etc) with accuracy.

Today I didn't see myself feeling so accomplished :)
I just saw ONE video and I DID A HOUSE IN GOOGLE SKETCHUP!!!!  Next class I would like to learn how to make it look more realistic. The second tutorial video for new users shows how to do this, how to add more details to your house.
Second Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS11K5PgHkc&feature=player_embedded

Google 20%

For this project, I would like to learn how to use Google SketchUp. With Google SketchUp you can design 3D models, and that is what I want to do. There are several tutorials and self-paced tutorials that can help me achieve this.
Tutorials http://www.sketchup.com/intl/es/training/videos.html
              http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/topics/sketchup.aspx
Tips http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/11/15/10-tips-to-get-you-started-with-google-sketchup/
Some suggestions for new users are:

• Customizing your toolbar: When you download the program the toolbar has some of the tools you need but not all of them so it's suggested yo include the following to your toolbar:
• Large Tool Set
• Standard
• Layers
• Views
• Face Style
• Google
• Shadows
•  Learning to use layers.
•  Keep some tools available: Materials, Components and Layers.
•  Read the User's Guide before diving into Sketchup world.
•  Learn the shortcuts. (on the tutorial links)

For the final project/presentation I would like to show my partners and Ms. Shawn that I learned by making a 3D model of a building myself. To make it a bit more challenging, it would be a model of our school or at least a part of it, time permitting.

Link

C/C website