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The question, “What you want to do after you graduate?”, can stump a lot of people. Majority of people revolve their whole lives around college and what they want to be when they grow up. Some know exactly what they want. There are also others that do not. Hopefully by the time one graduates from high school, they will know exactly where they want to go and what they want to major in. Choosing a high school was not so bad as a kid. One just had to rely on their parents to move somewhere with a school district and you just had to show up to class. However, with college, you, yourself have to put a lot more thought into it. I myself, have no idea where I would like to go to college. As a little girl I always said I was going to go to Penn State
There are many things to consider when choosing what you want your major to be. For starters, you need to think about what kind of jobs are in demand and if you are going to be happy working in that field for what could possibly be the rest of your life. Ever since I was eleven years old I said I was going to be a psychologist and major in psychology at college. I want to be a psychologist because I love the idea of steering people into the right direction and help to make their lives a little bit easier day by day by just talking and sorting things out with them. I always said I would get my doctorate's degree and open up my own practice and have my own business. Growing up and becoming a teenager I thought to myself “How many people are graduating with a degree in psychology and how many work in that field?”. When you think about it, it is not many. So, I thought to myself what else I would be interested in doing. After thinking I came to the conclusion that I really love little kids and I would love to work with them. I would not like to be a teacher, so that was out of the question. I do not think I would be a very good surgeon so pediatric surgery was also a no-go. So, as of today I am thinking that maybe I could be a pediatric nurse. Hopefully, that by the time that I graduate, I know what I want to major

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