Success: Personal Essay: My Concept Of Success

Success can be defined in several ways but personally, I consider being successful as working hard in a field that creates passion, fulfils your desires, and ultimate becoming a better version of yourself through achieving personally goals. Often people deem success from your net worth, such as how much money you have in the bank, the quality of material items possessed, and your overall richness. My idea of success is being rich in knowledge, passion, love, having complex connection and fulling your ultimate desires while also helping those less fortunate than you. It’s not always about the money but rather doing something you love. Someone that consider to be successful is Victor Hernandez, my dad. Previously Victor was a high school math

Victor had an unusual childhood as he grew up on the side of a mountain which he parents owned and farmed. School and education was his own personal way of escaping his little town and gaining worldly knowledge. When it came time to go to middle school, Victor had to leave his little small town and move in with his grandmother that lived in the Tegucigalpa the booming capital of Honduras for a better quality education. During this transition, he really struggled especially in college with the social aspects of living in a huge city but he completely immersed himself in his studies. Once he decided to change his negative outlook on his new living situation, and school he really began to succeed. He’s love for math and education played a huge part in deciding what his future major would be once he got to

After almost two years in this new country, Greg came to Victor with another proposition of opening an office in Houston, Texas. According to Victor that was his most important career accomplishment to date and he was finally able to fulfill his childhood dream of living in the United States. Once our visas got approved our family head up north to land in the south of Texas. After a few years at the company, my dad decided to leave and once again start teaching math. My dad states that he loved his position at the company he felt like he wasn’t severing his new community