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For many years of my life, I wanted to be a baker. I fell in love with the idea of turning my hobby into a full-time career and owning my own bakery. All I watched on TV was Cake Boss and Cupcake Wars, and all I wanted to do when I got home from school was bake. However, this was just a childhood dream that I soon fell out of love with near end of middle school. I don’t exactly know why I had this change of heart, but one of the reasons might be that anything to do with business or owning a business absolutely bored me. Besides baking, I went through many other careers I thought I wanted to pursue, including photography, pharmacy, and fashion merchandising. However, none of these stuck for very long. I guess I’ve never really

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