Personal Narrative: What I Want To Be When You Grow Up

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What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s always the question that is asked the youth. What was your answer? Was it the same answer throughout your life? Because mine was not. It changed every year. From a vet to working with children until high school when I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, all I knew was that I didn’t want to be behind a desk. So my sophomore year I took every class that seemed the slightest interest to me. One of those classes was floriculture. I found that I was extremely good at floral arrangements. But I had one problem, I didn’t do it as the book said to. When the book said to build the arrangement from the outside in Id build it from the inside out, and let me tell you, the teacher did not like

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