Personal Narrative Essay: Growing Up In My Life

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In my life I have been fortunate enough to grow up with such a good environment in my later teens years especially comparable to how most other kids live in San Bernardino. Even though my childhood wasn’t the greatest it made me “grow up” and be able to take care of my two siblings and learn that you really need to try to be successful if you don’t want to go back to poverty gang filled areas. In my years growing up, I lived a good amount of time with my grandmother due to various circumstances that my mother resolved before I turned 14 and got custody of my siblings and I.When I happily moved back with my mother my family grew with two more step siblings and a step dad. Having this made the house feel full and lively. However things aren …show more content…

However I had to persevere and learn to take his place not only watch over my siblings but to teach them what he taught me. Now growing up with such a big family like everyone else with a big family knows how you will get annoyed with each other so there is always a want to be out of the house so my mother pushed all of us into a sport or sports that we had an interest in. As I was moving into our new house my cousin came up to me and suggested I should try out for wrestling. Hesitant at first, I decide to try out since I had nothing much better to do.To put it simply the first week was hectic and chaos; so much conditioning it was ridiculous. However though all this mess I met the head coach, the one and only coach Jesse Singh. Everyday he would give us a speech and I was fired up to push the limits of my body until it stopped then I pushed some more. He instilled not only my passion to wrestle but to strive to always want to do better and exceed expectations. It didn 't even stop there as I continue to wrestle for him he installed confidence,leadership skills, and comrade. I never tried out a lot of other sports since I wrestled year round but I did try California Cadet Corps or …show more content…

My most compelling choice at the moment would be a trauma nurse with a subspecialization in sport injuries. I choose this because I want to be able to help as many people as I can. Another reason this career is my primary choice at the moment is I will have to always stay alert one person could be coming from a fatal blood wound to a woman’s water broke to athletes having a concussion. Definitely not the final reason to choose this career but I will also be able to go back to my wrestling team and help with all our serious injuries and teach them how to not spread infections like ringworm or staph. Another career I have considered would be a hospital corpsmen or HM in the Navy. To explain briefly what this its basically a medic. I found out this can give me something new everyday. One day I can be in San Diego helping Marine recruits and the next day I could be working with Navy Seals in Afghanistan or in situations like hurricane sandy in New York giving emergency medicine.I also have so many options to do different jobs such a dentist, surgeon assistant, or search and rescue. Having such a great variety of different jobs and places to work I find really exciting and will allow me to gain a lot of experience like working under stress or learn about different cultures.The last reason I have consider this is because I feel obliged to serve and protect this country which

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