Why am I in collge?

I’m currently undecided on what career I want to go into to. I’ve always wanted to be and elementary teacher since I was little, but now that I’m older I’ve been looking a lot into the medical field. I’ve been doing a lot of research of the two and I just can’t decide.

When I was growing up I got a chalkboard one year for Christmas. We had and unfinished basement and that’s where we put the chalkboard. Everyday after school I would make my brother and the neighborhood kids be my students and I would be the teacher. I had them down in that basement almost every day until they wouldn’t come down anymore. I loved teaching and being able to write on the chalkboard. My family always said they thought I would be a teacher. Now that it’s time to decide I can’t make up my mind.

I was looking into the medical field, because I like helping people. I was really looking into becoming an x-ray tech. I’ve had to get x rays a lot in my life and I always wanted to be one of those people. I know that going into the medical field is recession proof and they make more money than a teacher does.

My aunt is a teacher and I used to always help her set up her classroom right before school started. I loved doing that and I loved going shopping with her for school supplies. Ever since she’s become a teacher I’ve wanted to become one.

Now that I’m in college I want to make the right decision. Should I take the risk of becoming a teacher and then not getting a job? There isn’t a lot of job openings for teachers around this area and that would mean I would have to move and I don’t know if I want to do that. If I go into the medical field there is a really good chance I’ll get a job right when I’m out of school and I won’t have to job hunt for very long. I feel like I’m helping people if I go into either of the fields, but I don’t know which one to do.

I love kids a lot and it makes since for me to be an elementary teacher. I love being around them and I’m not one of those people who gets irritated with kids quickly. I would love to have my own classroom of first graders who are really excited to be there and to learn. That would make me really happy, but I don’t know if that’s possible in this area.

Then I bounce back to going into the medical field and being a nurse. I would get to help kids get better if I went into being a nurse for a pediatrician. The only thing that makes me want to stay away from that is seeing all the kids sick. I would want to make them feel better, but I don’t know if I could see them sick. I’d rather see them happy in a classroom learning from me.

I still have a little time left to decide what I want to do with my life. I’ll have to research more and maybe I’ll sit in a classroom or shadow a nurse and decide which one is a better fit for me. I just hope that I make the right decision and I don’t make a decision based on salary. I want to make a decision on what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to love waking up in the morning and going to work. I don’t want to be those people who hate their jobs.