Personal Narrative: My Economic Growth

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Economic Growth My intended major is finance. After graduating high school, I decided to take a break and go on a vacation to my country’s Indonesia. Indonesia is a third world country with the very minimal opportunity for business to grow. When I was 11 years old my family and I moved to the U.S. I haven’t been to Indonesia for more than 8 years. I still remember my family barely makes a living just to survive so I didn’t think it would give me any experience to my major, but it was through this visit that got me liking and pursuing financing major. All my uncles’ were very poor. They worked from day to night and barely made enough money to feed their family. To my surprise when I went back all of my uncles’ are very wealthy. They own a …show more content…

I started to learn more on my own about the gold investment and how to be successful at it. When the price of gold went down I started to buy a couple of grams of gold and was very excited to start investing. My uncle told me to be really careful and pay attention to the price as they went up and down. From that day my uncle became a mentor to investing and financing. As a couple of weeks passed by, I saw the opportunity on Monday to exchange my gold to earn a profit as the price of gold went up. I earn a couple of hundred dollars. My confident and moral into gold investing was so high I bought even more gold to invest. As a week passes by I see the price went up but I was not satisfy on how much I would profit if I exchange so I let the week pass by. I waited one month thinking it would earn me more profit but the gold price went down rather than up. Because of my miscalculation, I was unable to earn any profit on my gold; I only got the original prices that I bought the gold in. I was very frustrated because I should have exchange my gold the previous month to earn profit but I was too naïve, but overall I learn and earn experience on how to manage my resources and …show more content…

Financing and selling gold have something in common because you are working on limited recourses and are expected to expend it especially if one work for a huge corporation. Finance is a crucial part of a country economy because in finance you are able to fund other business to grow. My goal in finance is to help other business to grow which will lure foreign business to start their business in my country. Financing are so special because you are helping the economy grow. This will help my dream to get my country out of the third world and become a first world

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