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Explain What I Want To Be When I Grow Up Essay

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I was first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" when I was about five years old. It's considered a harmless question, to elicit replies, like, "I want to be a teacher," or "I want to be an astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina."
But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older in various forms -- for instance, now that I am in high school, I get asked what major I’m going to pick in college. And at this point, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is the thing that keeps me up at night.
See, the problem is not that I do not have any interests – it is that I have too many. In elementary school, I liked math and art, on the other hand I danced ballet. Now I built websites and volunteer as …show more content…

As a team we participated at the international competition of “Festival of Code”, which was being organized by the Young Rewired State in the UK, where we won the “Special Mention Award”.
During this period of time I had the opportunity to learn many new concepts such as Front-End Web Developing, Open Source and Big Data. Every day, I would rush home after school to widen my programming knowledge. From HTML coding, to graphic editing, to online marketing, to web administration, I learned everything needed to build a great site. In addition to learning how to program in different languages, I learned how to work with many environments and technologies as well.
Whilst exploring the tech world, I cultivated an interest in web and graphic design also. I started off with absolutely no knowledge in it — I picked up the skills myself by randomly downloading graphic software, reading up online, and spending countless hours fiddling in it.
Design was fun in a way. I saw it as my way of connecting my passion for arts and technology. I’ve always been really infatuated with art, at 7 I started taking painting courses. My interests in art continues even now that I am trying to pursue a degree in arts &

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