Where I Want to Be When I Grow Up

“Your fear is 100% dependent on you to survive”. In the next 5 years of my life, I just want to be able to survive. What good is all of my past years of experience if I have nothing in the future to show for it? In my life right now I am making choices that are going to affect myself and others drastically down the road. I can see myself graduating from college in the next 5 or so years, and finally beginning to find the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. I don’t want to be making choices now that is going to derail my focus on these things. I see myself completing a degree in physical therapy at WSU. I can see myself starting to grow as a decent person in society. Being able to see these things is one thing, carrying them out in the future is another. Being out on my own doing these things scares me a lot. I fear that in the future all these dreams I have for myself will be nothing but that, dreams.

15 years down the road is where I can start to see myself succeeding in life. After establishing myself for the last few years, I can see myself starting to be one of the best in my field. I have heard that being a family and divorce attorney is an extremely difficult job to master. I feel that the skills I have picked up for working with and for others now will help me to be able to deal with all the trials and drama that come with the job. I want to have roots being laid and have other people in my life to take care of besides myself. I want a big part of my life to still revolve around the game of basketball. Basketball has been a passion of mine for years and I would like to keep practicing it whether I compete in it or just use it for entertainment.

My Dream Job Is Who I Want to Be When I Grow Up

The job I have been considering is a job in physical therapy. I would love to be an athletic trainer. I love sports and would like to work in an environment where I am working with athletes and sports injuries. Athletic trainers with medical professionals, coaches, and athletes every day. They are tasked with making sure athletes are ready to play, helping them maintain their diets, and if and when injuries occur ensuring that they can get the medical treatment that they need to have a speedy and natural recovery. A key skill in being an athletic trainer is having a passion for sports and the athletes involved. If you don’t have a passion for it would you care at all if the athlete can get back to his/her sport? They must also be able to stop on a dime and make decisions that will affect people for the rest of their lives. A wrong decision in this line of work can be extremely costly for both parties involved, so it is important to stop and think about a decision before you make one. This job would be amazing for me because I would get to be around things that I love every day, but also be helping others at the same time.

While trying to accomplish the things listed in the above paragraph I would like to be able to stay in Utah to achieve them. More than that I would love to attain these things while attending SUU, USU, or WSU. All of these colleges have programs to help me get any of the degrees, but the real thing to consider is how far away from family do I want to be.  The plan is to be able to achieve one of these goals in the next 5-10 years. The degree on average take about 5-7 years to complete, while in the meantime I can be working and getting ready to be able to start a family after the stress of schooling is out of my life. All of the degrees I am interested in require going to school for 4 years to obtain a bachelor’s degree and then proceeding to take 2 or more years of schooling to earn the degree. 

I love helping people. Not only will I be helping people, but in the job of an athletic trainer, there are things involved in it that I am passionate about. I don’t want to end up in some dead-end job that I will never enjoy for my entire life. I not only want to make a living with whichever career I choose, but I also want to have a lot of fun whichever way I decide I want to go. But it all comes down to me wanting to help give back to the world that has given so much to me my entire life.

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, before any of these things can start to unfold for me I first must graduate from high school. After high school and even during high school the choices that I make are going to be deciding factors in the path I follow through with. Before I can go to college I have to be able to pay for college. Scholarship searching right now as a senior can make or break me, if I get lazy in the search I’m not going to have enough money to pay my way through and I will owe a lot of money to the college. Not only scholarships but having savings for when I am on my own are huge. There are going to be expenses in my life that I will have never thought about just because it has always been provided to me as long as I’ve been alive. Getting through college is not going to be a walk in the park either, I need to be obtaining studying skills so that I’m not just learning things but I am remembering what is taught so that I can pass the exams and ultimately the class as a whole. Once I get through college the odds are there are not going to be lines of employers waiting to hire me out the gates. I am going to have to put in effort on my end to get and keep a job. While I am in college is where I am starting the process of starting a family of my own. Finding that special someone is a very necessary part of the whole process. After I find “THE ONE” that I am going to marry I can begin to plan and budget for things like having and raising children. All of this is part of the plan of who I want to be as a person and what I want to do with my life as a whole.

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