Physical Therapy Essay Statement

Entering my first year of college, I didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do. I still didn’t choose a major let alone a career. My requirements for a career would be to earn enough money that my family would be taken care of financially and a career that I wouldn’t mind going in to work every day. The one aspect of the career that I was certain of was that I wanted to be able to help people in whatever I chose to do. After careful consideration and exploring the options available to me, I have come to the decision that I want to have a career in physical therapy. Physical therapy is the treatment of disease, injury or deformity through physical methods rather than through drugs or surgery. My interest in physical therapy goes back to my junior year in high school. I was given the opportunity to take a kinesiology class as an elective. Kinesiology is an integral part of physical therapy

When I was younger, I never realized how much we struggled financially. I always had new clothes, enough to eat, a roof over my head, etc. It wasn’t until recently that I was finally able to take into consideration all the sacrifices my parents had made and all the times they put me and my siblings before them to provide for us. My parents never went out, never bought anything for their pleasure, never vacationed. We were their top priority. Now that I am working I am able to help out and take some of the pressure off of them, but I wish to do more. This is where physical therapy comes in. A physical therapist has a salary ranging from $64,610 to $122,130 a year, with an average of $93,400 a year. With what I would be earning if I follow this path in physical therapy, my family would be taken care of financially and I would also be able to provide for my own family once I start one in the same way my parents did, but without having to experience the same struggles that my parents went