You may ask yourself what job that I might want to look into as I grow up. You might think of me trying to become an English major. That is not want I want to become and not even close to what I’m choosing as my major. There are a variety of different things to choose between, but I chose to major in computer engineering for what I really want to do later in my life. Later in my life I want to us the knowledge I get from Cape Fear and use it to become a computer programmer and create software programs and video games. A video game programmer is my perfect job in my future.
As of right now I’m not in the perfect situation to take up a being a videogame programmer. Right now in my life I haven’t had a job yet and don’t have any experience to get some jobs. I am looking for a job now but am having no luck. For now I am attending Cape Fear Community College for a computer engineering major. With this I’ll learn programming languages and networking security. This is just one step out of many steps toward my ideal job.
There are not many conflicts in my life to keep this goal from me. I want to be a videogame programmer and no one, including my parents, will keep me from achieving my ideal job. The one main conflict is my family. My family wants me to get a good job that I won’t enjoy but get paid enough money to pay for them. I would like to have a good job that I enjoy to go to everyday no matter how much it pays. Another conflict I have is that would of liked to take a programming class in high school. But high school didn’t have a class just for that or have a class that incorporates the programming that I would like to learn. Another conflict is how the education system is put together. All the major subjects are taught more and the classes that the kids might want to take for their skills are either not put into the school or taken out of the curriculum. (Sir Ken Robinson) There are some struggles for me to endure to become a videogame programmer. One struggle is that programming is very difficult to learn and it would a long time to remember the coding that is used throughout each program. Another struggle is getting threw community college to get into a bigger college to learn more about the programming for these applications. The main struggle is mainly trying to find a job that needs a video game programmer. Finding a company that needs that will be very tough unless I create my own studio and create my own games and get other people who are passionate in the same areas I am. I am still working toward my goal and there hasn’t been any outcome yet. I do have some ideas of how it may turn out later when I do get closer to the end of my journey. One idea is that I won’t be able to keep my own promise to keep working toward this goal. Another idea that I have is that I won’t be able to find a occupation for my studies. Another idea is that everything will work out perfectly and I will become exactly what I want to become and will be successful in my life.
The meaning of all this is to show that all forms of school are important to show different things to kids. I learned about want I wanted to be when I was nine and started playing videogames and always looked into the files reading the coding that was in the files not knowing what any of it meant. Since then I’ve wanted to learn how they did that and wanted to work for it later in my life. School played no part in finding out what I liked and most likely doesn’t help many other people with what they like to do. Schools teach more academic classes than creative classes and kids don’t have many options to pick from other than the main core classes that have to be taught to kids to move on to higher learnings.(Sir Ken Robinson)