Like everything a simple idea can have the biggest influence in life that is why I am thankful that my parents have engraved the idea that with just the right amount of effort anything is possible. This simple idea has helped me through some of the most challenging subjects in school. It even helped me through one of the most difficult times in school which was learning how to read. Learning how to read fluently in English was one of the most difficult things for me to do in school. A reason for this is because when I was little my primary language was Spanish, because I had lived here in the Rio Grande Valley for most of my life, and English was never really spoken in my family. All this changed though because when I was in second grade we moved from mostly Spanish speaking community, to a community were English was dominant. This was probably the most difficult times in my life because I felt almost as if I was behind everyone else and I couldn’t catch up. Reading to me felt impossible at the time because even when I did manage to read something I would have the hardest times trying to comprehend what I had read. Although it seemed helpless at the time I was able to overcome this challenge and later get commended on the reading TAKS test that would later come. While learning to read may have been one of the most challenging times for me in school it wasn’t the only one either. For me school became a lot easier after sixth grade and remained that way until the day I graduated but starting my junior year in Rio Grande City High School got me thinking about one question. That question was, “What was I going to do after high school.” I had never thought about it until my junior year mainly because I always thought that by the time I graduated I would already have an idea about what I was going to be but realizing that graduation was getting closer got me thinking. I started by thinking about what would seem like a good career then researching all the requirements needed and reading a summary about all the obligations that you are entitled to. The first career that I remember catching my eye was a police officer mainly because it seemed like a easy job and it only required four years of college which to me would feel like a breeze. I then started taking law enforcement classes so I would know what to expect in what I thought would be my future career. While taking those classes I started to realize that maybe being a police officer was not the best career for me because while it may have seemed like an easy career at the time there was more to it. I learned this when I took Court System Analysis with a former police and narcotic officer that had lived in various places in Texas until he moved back here to Rio Grande City and started to teach after working for Pan Am for a while. He had lots of stories about what he had experienced as a cop and what it was like. One of the things that he would always emphasize on was the fact that being a police officer was not easy and would take a lot of dedication on your part. He would say this mainly because while working for Pan AM he would sometimes only sleep for a couple of hours before having to leave again. He said that this was difficult to him because as father he was not always able to be with his children. Having dedication was not the only thing that I learned from being in that class the other was that while many people may find being a police officer interesting, I did not. This got me thinking that if I wasn’t going to study for a police officer what career would I choose. It took me awhile to decide what my area of study was going to be in ,but it was not until I stopped thinking of what was easy that I was able to decide what I wanted to study for, which was a cardiologist. I chose this career because one of the things that I’m most interested in is health. This career would also help me understand and probably be able to stop one of the diseases that have affected both my grandma on my dad’s side and grandpa on my mom’s side of the family.
Although the education for this career is expensive and challenging I know that I will be able to overcome these challenges. Saying that the expense for this careers education is great it is probably the reason that I’m here at STC to start my education. After which I will later transfer to a four year university and continue my education. Once I have completed this I plan to attend a medical school to get my degree and practice my chosen career.