An Essay About My Future Career

What is your career choice? Throughout life you are always asked, “What you want to do when you grow up?” Since a young age everyone is told to focus on a career path that they would like to engage in when they grow up. Teenagers and preteens often times set more realistic career goals and focus on a career path that have specific interests to them. When asked about my future career path, I have always had my mind set on being a firefighter or a police officer. The reasons I focused on being a firefighter or police officer was because I enjoy doing things that require being outdoors, as well as things that require hands-on activities. I also enjoy helping people as much as I possibly can and when looking into those two fields, I really saw

I realised that growing up and being raised on the farm is where I find my true happiness. I spend every weekend and all summer out in the open, on the farm. When growing up I would always go out to the farm and help both my dad and grandfather. While attending school and exploring other career choices, it helped me realized that I do not like being indoors. After looking at the other career paths it made me realize that I do not wish to be in an officer or a firefighter anymore, however I would like to be out in the open. With me being outside in the field it helped me solidify my career choice. I have decided I would like to follow my family 's tradition of farming. I feel comfortable running machinery and I know the guidelines that are required to farm. I believe that I could be very successful in the farming field. This is a tradition that I would like keep in the family so it can be passed down generation to

Recently, there has been a change in farm equipment that includes GPS technology and it has made a very large impact on the way farmers farm and grow crops. In the past, farmers would have to go to the field and work by hand or with horse-drawn equipment. With the farmers doing most of their work by hand, it was often a long process. However, as time went on the tractor was invented. A horse-drawn vehicle is a piece of equipment that is pulled by one or by a team of horses. The old equipment would take a long time to complete a single task, which meant that farms were smaller and less productive. With the farms being smaller, farmers could only work on so much land at a time and this limited the income. (Ganzel, B, 2009) The older tractors were not very fast, and usually would only do a couple of rows at a time. Most farmers today use large modern tractors and other motorized equipment to help with field work. Tractors, plows, etc. are much larger and can cover a large area in a short period of time, so farmers are able to produce more food in a shorter amount of time and therefore make larger profits. The farming equipment now makes farming less time consuming, and also helps produce more goods at a cheaper cost. There are bigger fields that are being farme which means a lot more produce is being