1. Michael Matheson’s Career Path
How to become an ARCHERY INSTRUCTOR

2. My Career Goals I want to become an Archery INSTRUCTOR by 2025
To get there, I will need to:
Graduate high school by June 2019
Between 2019 and 2025
Compete in BC summer games(2020)
Compete in the Olympics (2024)
Take woodworking and industrial design courses to make the bows
Business courses as I will be selling bows

3. What is an Archery Instructor?
An Archery Instructor is someone who helps others get better at archery.
I would regularly help people work on their form at this job
I would be setting up equipment
I would be preparing for a practice
I would keep up to date with competitions

4. About my future career This career is done at an archery range
$50,681 yearly or 26 dollars an hour
an instructor would work about 40 hours a week; some of these hours would be evenings and weekends
I would also be making $ 20,000 a year on bows that I make and sell

5. My job has a 1 % chance of becoming automated
Reason 1:YouTube can not teach people with the understandings that humans have
Reason 2: Robots can’t give feedback
Reason 3: bows have to be hand crafted

6. Archery instructor would be great for me because…
I already have these skills for this career:
Being able to give advice for the form

7. I am not quite ready for this career, but I will get there!
These are skills for the job I still need to learn:
This is how I will get those necessary skills:
Focusing on the task at hand
Don’t get distracted
Wood working
School
Industrial design
Business

8. This is what appeals to me with this career…
I love the sport of archery I can practice my own archery when I teach I want to make bows I could get sponsors for being a great shooter and get funds on equipment and travel for competitions

9. These are some things I find less appealing about this career…
Training – takes lots of time and some of that time I would rather be making bows
Paper work – way to much of it

10. Potential obstacles to getting this career
The possible obstacles:
My plan to overcome them: manage my time better
Time management such as schooling
Try to find a school that offers programs for archery
Not to many schools offer programs for archery

11. Potential obstacles to being successful within this career
The possible obstacles:
Injuries
Any minor injuries to the hands or arms would prevent you from shooting
for example “ bow bite “ is a large purple / blue / green bruise of the forearm caused by the slap of the bow string on unprotected Skin
My plan to overcome them:
Don’t over do it
Do not put yourself in to risky situations
if injured wait until healed until you shoot
Again to prevent aggravation

12. The training/education required for my career is:
High school diploma
Business courses
Wood working
Industrial design
Bow making courses

13. BCIT Burnaby BC
In the carpentry / joinery / woodworking program

14. I intend to go to BCIT for that career
It is located in Burnaby BC
Joinery /cabinet maker program
I would earn a certificate of trades
4 years of Apprentice training
It will cost about $19,200

15. Here is where I can get that:
Archery instructor courses
Instructor of Beginner Archers

16. Financial Plan
I am going to pay for my program: by working at sport chek
and by taking out student loans and applying for scholarships
As an apprentice I work and learn

17. High school courses required
Grade 11 courses:
Woodworking
Grade 12 courses:

18. A Career in Archery is Awesome!!!
If one arrow hits another one dead on and then splits it or even embeds inside ,it is known as Robin Hood.

19. Different bows