Pursuing A Career: Personal Narrative

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I have always been the type of person that has it all together. Everyone thinks that I am one of the most calm and collected people in school, but they do not know that on the inside I do not have it together at all. I know what I want to do as a career, I wish to become a restorative justice attorney, however, I do not know how I am going to get there. There are many things such as this that people do not know about me, even my closest friends. In order to start, I too thought that I had it all together until recently. I came to the dilemma that, while I have said this for years, I do not want to be an English major after all. I do not want to read uninteresting books for four years that have no meaning to my life or career. I simply do not want be miserable. I could be a business administration, peace building and development, or psychology major. I honestly do not know what I want to do. I know for a fact I want to go to college, but where, what should be my criteria for a college? Unfortunately, my original plan to base it on the showers and food is out of the question, so I need a new …show more content…

It is easy to talk to and keep people around that always at school with you, but over the summer I made new friends at Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week and I thought we would stay in touch. We had plans to meet and text and be pen pals, but none of that occurred. Instead, I talk to one of those friends and only see the rest through their Facebook posts and Instagram pictures(I do not stalk them, we actually follow each other). While this highly saddens me, there is little I can do about it. I could text them, but is they do not respond, or reply with one word answers, then I will be even more upset and confused. People are just not very good at keeping their word, and I need to learn to be less naive and realize that knowing a person for one week is not long enough to make a solid judgement