As a college student, what is your answer to â? What do you want to be when you grow up?
The question what do you want to be when you grow up runs in so many minds from a person of that tender age to a grown up person in the college. This question seems so easy to answer while you are still young but it turns out difficult when one grows. When you are young, you choose your career depending on some factors. One of the factors may be ones models, mentors contribute in a way that you look after them, get encouraged, and work hard towards being like them. For instance, if I look after Bill Gates as my mentor I will work hard towards being like him some day.
Money makes everything in the world move and this may be another factor that makes one work hard and choose a certain career. For example, one may choose to become a surgeon just because he or she saw Ben Carson rich and in such a career. This may turn out the other way round for the student as he or she grows and goes through so many difficulties in his or her education. A student may fail to perform in their tests and thus they begin to lose interests in that certain field thus giving up in that career thus changing his or her mind. Since the student knows that, his or her points will not get him or her through that course so one is required to change his or her profession.
As I was immature, I was very delighted to answer the question “what I wanted to be when I grow up?” I would answer it extremely easily I want to be a pilot. I did not care what was required before one was to become a pilot. To me it was presently for the reason that I had a passion of flying in a plane, which I had adopted from the many movies I watched while, still young. When I grew up and started going to schools and exchanging my ideas with other students I started finding some other interests in other career fields. The other student had ideas like joining the army, becoming a lawyer as well as being chefs among so many other ideas.
Peer pressure made me change the answers to that question severally before I got to high school. Before getting to high school, I had wished to be in the army and being a chef and even a lawyer. When I got to high school, it was not a matter of my peer influence only but also it was that one should pass his or her examinations before being pursuing or joining the university. The requirements for one to become a lawyer were that one was to be very good in English, arithmetic and either geography or history. I was poor in arithmetic that led to my failure in the mean grade thus making me lose hope in undertaking law.
The army was the other difficult for me to join; it needed a person who performed well in mathematics and all the sciences including chemistry and physics. I had no other choice but to take on becoming a chef. That was a resolution I made while I was in high school before I did my examination, after I did my examinations and the results were out. My parents asked me on what course I would take in the college I told them that I would like to be a chef and after consultations, I decided on taking microbiology. At the college, someone’s future starts to brighten up and so it becomes easier for one to do that specific career. At the university, one is entitled to do what he or she chose until one gets to be a profession.
