2A: What Makes You Happy

So my first week of college was a success J I did all of my work and got grades that we all in the “A” range and I’m pumped! I don’t know if people know this about me but I’m majoring in Elementary Education. I’ve wanted to be a teacher, or work with kids for as long as I could remember and after what happened in my town of Newtown, it only reinforced what teaching means to me.

                It came as no surprise to anyone that I would go to college to become an elementary teacher. I’ve worked with kids extensively throughout middle school and high school so I know what it takes, and I enjoy it. But what if my parents wanted me to make more money in the future and made me major in something else?

The reasons people attend college are what people or teacher have engraved into out head since the beginning of time; you have to go to college, you get more money of you have a college education. We might have gotten the occasional person saying, “Follow your dreams!” but if this dream is what people call unreachable, then the chances are that people crushed those dreams. But this quote from a reading I read for my INQ class says, “…think about the whole of your life, not just your job.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06nussbaum.htmlgwh=77B60C910BDD618FB678E5D6142C5B56&_r=0) This reminds me that you really need to do what you love in college so you will love what you are doing in the future. You are going to have to attend this job every day till you retire. If it’s just a job that “pays the bills” it will get old fast. You will be dying to just make it through the day. But if you do something you are passionate about you will, be more committed to your work and will probably do better, and it will show to other people.

So do what you love, because you’re going to be doing it for the rest of your life, not anyone else, so why should they have a say? Do what makes you happy because you’re going to be there for a while.

This link is a career test you can take online to help you possibly decide what you want to do if you haven't figured out already

http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/