What do you want to be when you grow up?
At first the answers were simple: firefighter, teacher, doctor, mom, or Disney Princess. But as we grow up and learn about the many different opportunities out there the list grows. By middle school the answers are scientist, elementary school teacher, the President of the United States, or a writer. Then high school happens where we find what our interests are, our favorite subjects, and develop a clearer picture of what we may want to be when we grow up.
By college it's time to declare a major or some basic idea of what you think you would be interested in doing for the rest of your life. Throughout my life I have always been interested in everything. School came easy for me and I never really had a tough time in any subject...except maybe math. Yeah I definitely didn't like math. So I got through high school and was ready to start college still tackling the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Well I narrowed it down to 2 different tracks:
Communications OR Pre-Med
Yes, I know they two completely different tracks but they represented the two things I was interested in the most. I loved English class, reading, and writing all throughout school. But I also enjoyed science and logically going through a problem and identifying a solution. I was going back and forth between a field that dealt with the "grey" and another that was all "black and white." Well everyone always says that college is that time to experiment with different fields...so I did. I pretty much finished my required classes after my freshman year and decided as a sophomore (well technically as a junior since I came in with so many credits I was graduating early) to give some science classes a try.
Now that I'm a college grad with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, I'll let you figure out how those science classes went. So now I have this degree in a very broad field. There are so many different facets to the Communications field. Journalism, public relations, social media, marketing, human resources, sales, writing, blogging, reporting, and so many more that I haven't even discovered yet. There is so much that I can do with my degree, but it's just figuring out if I want to do it.
There's still that question looming over my head...What do I want to be when I grow up? I don't have an answer yet and I'm sure once I do find the answer it will change in 5, 10, or 50 years. But I need to do some soul searching to find an answer for the "right now." It could be moving to a new city to find the answer. It could be staying at home for a few months or a year to figure out what it is I exactly want to do. It could be going back to school for a higher degree or an entirely different one.
I guess that question your pre-k or kindergarten teacher asks never really does get answered. The only answer is finding something that you love to do and are passionate about and do it until you don't. That could be for a month, a few years, or forever. But I guess you never really know until you get out there and try to find out what the possible answers are. So whether you're 5 or 50...what do you want to be when you grow up?
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