Why I Want To Be An Occupational Therapist

As children, we do not fully understand the responsibilities associated with our dream job, so we say we want to be a doctor or firefighter because we only think of being heroes. We do not see the negative side. Now that I am in high school and can look at all sides of a career, I think that being an occupational therapist or elementary school teacher are possible future careers for me. Although these careers require similar personality traits, they are very different in education, salary, and work environment/schedule.
Occupational therapists work with a variety of patients young and old(“Occupational Therapists” 770). Elementary school teachers, on the other hand, work mostly with other teachers and younger children and their parents(“Kindergarten