My Career Research Paper

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Knowing what I want and knowing who I am are two entirely different concepts. It is in knowing what I want that will guide and form my path in life; it is who I am that will get me there. Knowing what I want has always been a challenge, whether it be what profession I desired to enter or simply what I wanted for dinner. Over the past seventeen years of my life, I realized I am always going to be changing. When I was seven, my dream job was waitressing. Taking care of people and their needs was inspiring to me. Later, I came to the realization that waitresses were paid very minimal and customers were not as kind as I thought. By the time I was ten, I desired to be a teacher. To decorate classrooms, to play games with students, and to teach others seemed much more delightful and enticing. But that dream failed two years later when my mom became a teacher. When seventh grade rolled around, I began a science phase. Except it was not a phase since it still persists today. First, it began with …show more content…

Majoring in psychology was instated in my mind entering that year. Yet, in that year, chemistry overtook that idea. For many years, I was terrified to take chemistry mainly because of the unpredictability of an experiment. Thus, making my approach to chemistry a skeptical one. It was not until the second semester that I realized I enjoyed it. I understood the class easier than others, looked forward to first period each day, and enjoyed learning all the class had to offer. I began thinking of different career paths into chemistry, but one question stopped me, “Is this really the right subject for me?” For every profession or major I have thought about, it seemed to not work. Unsure about this decision, I signed up for the Chemistry II course for my senior year. Through this year, I have learned the struggles but the greatness of chemistry itself. No doubt it is a complicated subject but it has sparked an interest in

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