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A Career In Middle School

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High School Administrators and Teachers are expecting students to have their whole life planned out right out of Middle School. I never would have thought, that I would find my answer while playing softball. For me, I had struggled with the concept of knowing what I wanted to find a career in for the past three years, till I broke my finger and had a metal rod protruding out of my finger. The process of finding out what I wanted to accomplish in life started, before a softball game and my coach told all the girls that if they are hurt, not to say anything because we only had nine players. As the game progressed, a ball came spiralling down and colliding with my finger; all I was worried about was finishing the game. For the instance, I did

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