The next five years of my life will be the most crucial years. They will be the platform on which I will build the rest of my life upon. Unlike most people, what I hope to study isn’t what I grew up hoping I would make of myself. My passion has always been music, it’s what makes me the happy. After some thought, I chose to take the safer route and went with a career that is more secure and lucrative. Within these next few years I hope to further my education and earn a degree in Dental Hygiene.
So far I’ve only worked for one employer my entire life. I feel really lucky to have found an employer like the on eI have today, it’s a great place to work at if you are a student. They have respected my schedule and provided me with a great environment to work in. They have given me so many opportunities. Just this year I was given the opportunity to attend a program in which I would learn basic managing skills among many other things. Even though I do not hold a management position at the moment, I use the skills I’ve learned from this program every day; in and outside of work. I see myself working at my employer as long as my student career allows me to.
Until recently, my life for the past 2 years has revolved around my job. Because out of school for so long, my desire to attend school slowly started to fade as I became wrapped up in the retail world. Applying to college was proving to be a huge hassle considering I was an out of state student. In order to avoid additional fees I had to wait over a year to even apply; because of this I started to feel discouraged. After hearing many horror stories of friends finishing degrees and not being able to actually put them to good use do to the rapid decline in our job market, I was very hesitant to even bother going to school again but I knew I would regret it if I didn’t at least try.
From the time I moved down here; which was a little less than 2 years ago I’ve struggled with depression which