Pursuing My Future Career

As a child and young teenager, I never knew what I wanted to become my life 's career and was always saying what I thought I wanted to be an example is an architect. Even though I did not really care about that career. Nevertheless, some very important people helped me settle on what I wanted to do with my life and I cannot thank them enough for the difference they have made to my life. This story starts in the year 2017 when I was a freshman at Anacortes High School. I am now in 10th grade as a sophomore, but I now know what I want to be my life 's purpose, to teach high school kids about the importance of our history and what were the events that lead to the modern world we live in today. During my freshman year I took a class called

Pullen helped shape my life by supporting me to do the best work I can and put effort into what I do, an instance of this is when I asked her if I could take A.P. U.S. History next year the much harder of the two courses for sophomores at A.H.S. I had just finished the paper on Imperialism in Africa and as I had World History 7th period I went over to her desk to ask if she thought I could take that class as all my friends had taken A.P. Human Geography in 9th grade. She said I should definitely take A.P. U.S. History next year, but also warned me about the difficulty and the mountain of work it would be. This was a big example of Mrs. Pullen helping and supporting me, to make an important decision for my high school career, as if not for me asking her if I could take A.P., I probably would have stayed in normal history, throughout High School and not have realized my full potential as an individual. A.P U.S. history with Mr. Welk is now my favorite class of my 10th grade year, and it has helped reinforce the foundation upon which my love and passion for history that started in World History rests. An example of something I learned in her class is “Absolute Monarchy” or the belief that god himself appointed the monarch to their position at birth. Learning about historical ideals such as this makes history very interesting to me, and this is a reason why History is my favorite subject in school. After much thought I decided I wanted to become a history teacher and

Pullen who were influential in my life I made a very important decision about what I wanted to do with my life, and over the course of her class I learned the value history has and why it should be preserved. Moreover, I hope someday I can send her a picture of my degree, when I graduate from college, as some of her other history students who have graduated have already done so. Another valuable lesson I have gained from her and taking her class is that I really can underestimate my own abilities sometimes, like how I thought; A.P. U.S. history was going to be incredibly hard for me. But the work I put in during her class has helped me do well in my very-challenging history class, even though at the beginning of the year it loomed over me like a giant. Mrs. Pullen still helps me by asking about my grades and how I’m doing in my classes on Wednesday in advisory class, this means I get to have my favorite teacher for all 4 years of my high school career and this makes me very glad. Next year I want to get great grades and ask her for a letter of recommendation, which she said, she does not just give out, so it is credible. This will assist me in getting into a college and help me secure my future as a History teacher. I would like to learn the Japanese language in college if I can and move there and get a job as a teacher there but this would be my dream and probably not