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Personal Narrative: What I Want To Do After High School

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High school has helped me figure out what I am going to do after I graduate,or at least I think it has. With that I have taken a lot of classes here at northview and some of them have been easy and others not so. But the classes that are right in the middle have helped me figure out a plan.

My freshman year I took some engineering classes and thought that this is the coolest thing ever. So I started to gather up some information on the jobs that I wanted to pursue. After weeks of looking at jobs that an engineer would do I found one that sounded interesting to me. Then I started to look at colleges that would have the courses that were need to get the job. But It would be a lot of work that I would most likely not do just because I don’t really like school enough to do all the work that is required. Then I kinda started to look at different career and none of them really sparked my interest. So over the summer i thought that i would take some time to reevaluate what i wanted to do after high school.

The next year came around and my new counselor had put me into another engineering based class, it was about alternative energy. This class also brought to light …show more content…

But the person that helped me the most would but my career tech teacher. He is one of the coolest old men that I have ever met he has helped me find what I want to do after high school. Along with him setting me up with two employers that were willing to hirer a high school kid that doesn’t know anything about what he is doing. Now I am working a company that is making huge houses and i think that i would stay with them for a little while. High school has pointed out that I should not stop looking for a career path. Also it has showed me that you can have a few careers choices and you eventually find one that fits you. But it also didn’t help me because there are some important thing that I do not know how to do but that is

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