College Admissions Essay: Moving To My Career

When I was in my last year of High School, I didn’t know what college I wanted to go to. So I began looking

In high school when I was trying to find out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, I

Then I started thinking about things that I enjoy doing, that relates to different types of jobs. There are so many choices of jobs out in the real world you don't even realize it until you get out more and search about different things on your own. I have decided that I do want to go to a university for sure. I plan on getting a bachelors degree, but

Since childhood, I have tried my best to find something in which I excelled, a path in life that I could turn into a career choice. However, it had not been as simple as I thought for as I developed, matured and refined my academic skills, my passions changed as I gained a love for the sciences. Initially, I wanted to explore a career in detective work, which I pursued for two years. Then at age fifteen, I had my heart set on pursuing law, primarily because I wanted to help people, especially those who had been faced with injustice. However, as I enrolled and completed more advanced and challenging Science classes, I began to develop a passion for pursuing a career in science and its related field. The constant that remained true, though, is that in every career path I desired, I knew that I wanted to help others.

Up until the eighth grade, I wasn’t certain what I wanted to do after high school, I had at least four

What was the moment you decided what you wanted to do in life? For me it was one Monday afternoon, sitting in a first-grade class. I had always thought about being a teacher; I knew I’d love it. But I wasn’t sure if I could handle the challenges that come with teaching. About a year ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to be a long-term substitute in a first grade inclusion class. The first few days were quite difficult. I had to learn schedules, the kid’s names, and how to interact with special needs students. However, I quickly caught on. It wasn’t until a few weeks later that I really fell in love with my new job. I was working with some of the lower children in the class on how to subtract two digit numbers. One little boy was just

Over the past ten years I have had the opportunity to connect with many people on a professional level when either I or my audience have joined the location I was working in at the time. Typically, when trying to connect I like to share a story where I take them though my career path as well as share a little about my personal life. This story comes to mind when I think about what drives my desire to go back to school and earn a bachelors degree. It really comes down to my family and a clear career direction that will allow me to spend more time with my family. I am now a husband and father of three children who are now involved in various extracurricular actives. My career path has been anything but standard. This has provided we with varying experiences which has resulted in valuable skill sets, however they are not

“First finish your work, then you can play to your heart’s content” was the chiding I would always receive when my parents caught me messing around while I had work pending. They would say that studying was my primary job as a student and should be given the most attention, but participating in other activities outside of school and devoting a portion of my life to nurturing my faith were just as essential.

My senior year of high school I took a Accounting class. I thought to myself why not try it and see if I want to do this for the next 50 years. As the classes and the grading periods went on I saw it was not my passion. If I would spent $200 on shoes in an instant without thinking, what makes me capable of taking care of other people’s money. Graduating high school and not having a clue what to do next was a very hard. A feeling not wanting to relive.

When I went to college the first time, I was thinking about going into medical school so I chose a Science Major of Chemistry and then I didn’t like Chemistry so I changed to Biology and I really liked that so I stayed in Biology and concentrated in Cellular Molecular Biology and Genetics.

A wise man once told me, “Get all the education you can, because that is something no one can ever take away from you.” Ever since that day, his words have always stuck with me. As I close the high school chapter of my life, I am anxious and driven, for the possibilities of the future. I have grown up being the oldest of my immediate family and my extended family. As a result of being the oldest, it has pushed me to strive to become the best example for my brothers and cousins. As I begin the path towards my future career, I have set goals I wish to accomplish to make my family, and myself, proud of the woman I will become. My education and career goals are to go to South Plains, then Texas Tech, and pursue a major in finance along with a

As a senior, I pride myself in knowing that I will be the first in my family to graduate high school and have the opportunity of pursuing my dreams. As I look into the future, it is easy to see why many would think that my dream career is unobtainable. When I tell others what I want to do, I always get the same reaction of shock. Countless times throughout my life I've been told that I cannot do it; I've been told that there is no way that a kid born with illegal parents who have no real education can ever achieve what I want to do. I dream of becoming a surgeon and helping save the lives of others. I want to prove once and for all that someone like me, even from the circumstances that surround me, can make something great with their lives

Among the nine areas that describe my life, I want and will make improvements in my career. I feel like I found the perfect career path; the things I am able to do and the things I will learn becoming a health promoter. Nonetheless, I am still in the process of becoming what I want, there is a long process ahead of me, which I am exited to take in order to achieve my dreams and get the education that I am still missing. In the mean time, I am getting prepared to become the best I can be as a professional.

Throughout the beginning of my high school years I have been trying as much as I could to figure out what I wanted to do, who I wanted to be, who I wanted to help, and just about every other question people ask when they don’t know what to do in their future. With the amount of possible jobs, careers, etc. attainable, it was difficult to figure out which one I wanted to do. I had a bunch of subjects I had absolutely no interest in, and I had several careers I might have been interested in. It was seemingly impossible to come up with something and then move on with it.

I knew I was not happy working retail, so I found a summer job working with individuals with disabilities and fell in love. I was excited to go into work every day, I enjoyed it so much I did not think of it as work. The program was designed to teach the kids math and reading and it was something I became passionate about quickly.