Throughout the multiple times I had been asked what I wanted to do with my life or what kind of career I wanted to go into, there was always a different answer as I was always weighing out my options and multiple interests. I did not like the idea of being stuck doing one job for the rest of my life and by the time I started looking into colleges, I knew the only field I would feel content being in was the forensic science field as I had taken a forensic class in high school and was genuinely interested in the topics and what it entailed. I chose UCO as the only school I was applying to because of their well-known forensics program and began my first semester with my second major undeclared. I gave myself one semester to explore my options for the …show more content…
When weighing my options for a second major, it was mostly between chemistry and psychology after I had decided I would not want to go into the investigative and crime scene side of the field because I knew I would not want to go into the training it takes to become a detective and that’s the only investigative job that would be worth it. I was interested in the idea of exploring a laboratory job since I had lost the chance to be on the crime scenes and that was the second best part since I could still have the chance of working with evidence and ideally not interact with as many people compared to what I would have to do with a psychology major that would deal with all kinds of people and needing to know all the aspects of a human being, which did interest me a small amount, but not enough to make it my career. With my limited knowledge of the field, I assumed that a route for the laboratory side would be either on a biology or chemistry side and I had known I was not fond of biology, but I had never taken a chemistry class before and had decided it was worth the risk to see if I would enjoy the subject or be able to learn in a chemistry