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Why I Want To Go To High School Essay

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“ The best career advice given to the young is: Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it” was said by Katherine Whitehorn. As a child in elementary school I was expected to know what I wanted to be. But as a people pleaser I “choose” to go with the career I knew my parents would approve of and wanted from me. A lawyer. At the time I thought it was what I wanted as well because I loved to prove people wrong and to argue. This is not the case as now, I am 17 years old, about to go to college to pursue “my life long dream”. You can not please everyone especially parents. You’ll end up dropping out in the middle of college or changing your major in between. To me the hardest people to please are the two who gave you life and everything you needed to be an amazing adult in the future. It is nerve wrecking because not only will I be the first to go to college but, I am expected to come out successful and an inspiration to my two younger siblings. As the oldest of three it is hard when your younger siblings ask you “What college do you want to go to?” or even the occasional “Can I live with you when you get a house?”. I have spent 14 years of my life in school working hard to reach this year because “it is my year”. This is my third …show more content…

It can ruin everything you worked so hard on. High School but senior year especially is a lot of pressure from your parents, peers, teachers, etc. They try to get you to go into the “right direction” even though it was no where near what you wanted. I am proud of myself as I am now 8 months away from getting my diploma. All throughout my years in school I have been pressured by my parents as well teachers, all telling me what is best. I explain and explain but my choices are not good enough so I would do as they say. Not anymore. From sophomore year I learned that none of those people will pay my tuition so why should they choose my career or my college. Now I do what I think is best for my

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