Personal Narrative: Growing Up As A Nascar Driver

Growing up as a kid having a whole hot wheels car collection that filled up a whole milk carton crate I would have expected to fulfill my dream of being a nascar driver. Well a kid can dream, but as I got older that dream seemed pretty far fetched due to my interests progressing towards computers and my truck getting horrible gas mileage so going fast isnt an option.

Ive always liked taking things apart and seeing whats inside of them and see how everything works just to see it. I didn’t really know what I was looking at, but the fact that it did something and all those tiny diodes and capasitors talked to eachother to make everything work was fasinating. I liked it, because I knew that not everyone could build something like that

so I wanted to learn more. After about a year I learned all the basics about wiring and building things using a curcit board and what it all meant. As much as I loved doing this it led to something more intersting. The world of computers.
My love for computers came about a year after I got my first laptop and actually started using it. It was uncharted territory for me, because I didn’t know what I was doing. I just knew the basics, but after some research I learned about what a computer consists of. Now I'm no PC builder although I do know what to use to make a really great computer. Strangly enough that’s not what caught my eye. The world of computer science is what I fell I love with. The amount of learning and training you need may throw the average person off. To me though it's what I have a passion for learning about.
With three years of research ive come to know a lot about computers from the hardware that is used to build them to the coding used in many software applications. For not taking any classes about any of this I think ive come to an end point on how much more I can learn considering that fact that I cant learn everything from forums or websites. Although ive retained a lot of information I feel that theres always more to learn, because the technology industry is always growing and is becoming more intergrated into our day to day lives.
Everyone has there own interests and computers and technology in general happen to be my strong point and hope to pursue this dream in the future. Theres no stopping the growth of technology and so far not many people are moving towards this career field, but this just makes me want to push and learn more to set my self apart from the average person.