Profession Essay

Sandy Umana
English 1302
Feb 5, 2012
Period 1
Profession Essay
In life there are many paths with different turns that you are able to make but its up to you to make the right decisions. Making a choice in what you want to be when you grow up is hard. There are various careers that a person can choose from, but before you can get to that phase theirs steps you have to take and that begins with school. We all start from going to elementary and don’t ever finish because were always learning something new everyday day.
Elementary was a great experience for me. Thats how it all begun with me learning how to speak bad write English was a great experience. It was hard but I was able to do it thanks to my parents and my cousin who is more like a sister to me. Junior high came and then it was time to skip to a step further and go to high school. I was focused on trying to get A’s and B’s only, but all the essays and test got harder and harder each year. Junior year had to be one of the most difficult year that I had gone through. Not only was I playing volleyball but I was also concentrating more on the sport than on my studies that caused me to fail physics second semester. Getting closer to senior year I started looking into the career I wanted ti focus on and what I wanted to major in.Senior year got is here and I had chosen to get into the medical field. The medical field interested me very much because we get to help people and even save their lives. Its not only those things that mattered to me but also I want to make my parents proud and show them that no matter how hard it can get I can get it done. For me to take that big step to become the person I want to be I have take many classes that don’t focus specifically on the medical field. As a senior I am trying to get ready for college and I am seeing what classes I need to take before I start focusing on the career that I want to dedicate my life too. Im taking a step forward and already am taking college English as a senior. It has been a difficult class since the beginning of the year but it is helping me and teaching me on how college is actually going to be. Its not comparable to high school. Teachers give you more days if you were absent or if you need those extra days but in college they give you a due date and when the date approaches the essay, homework, or extra work is due that day otherwise its not going to be accepted.
The steps that I am taking to get there are many of them. I have been researching colleges and community colleges that I would be able to get in and I have been looking in their studies and what majors they have. It is hard because you still in high school but on the other side you are looking at colleges and putting in applications and looking at the requirements you need to get accepted. There are test you have to take to get into a university like the SAT and ACT. I have taken both and have send them to a few colleges. My first SAT score was low; I didn’t expect to score that low so I decided to retake it. It took practice classes online and in school to help me get a better understanding at the test. Retaking it the second time felt more easier because of the practice and thanks to the people that helped me I got a reasonable score that universities would accept.
In the medical field there are various careers but I want to focus on one which is being a pediatrician. When I first heard of it I thought it was a great choice for me because I love children. I enjoy helping them and most of all making them feel better if there sick or they have disease I would be able to treat them and that’s what I want to do. To get to being that person I wan to enroll into a four year college and if I stay at top of my studies I would love to graduate from Texas State in 2016. During those four years of college I am going to go to nearby clinics and hospitals to help out and see how the job is actually done. Doing this will help me get a job as a nurse first and then keep getting a higher position until I get to being a pediatrician.
Its up to you to decide what you want to be in the future and what examples you are going to follow. Its going to be hard but the best thing to do is to never give up because if your never going to get to the person you wanted to be. You’re never going to stop learning because each day something new is invented and it might include changing stuff from your carrer.