My Dream Career Essay

“When I grow up I want to be a teacher!”, said little Tze Wan. When I was at the age of seven I have always wanted to be a teacher because I thought that it was very cool to be able to take control of the students in the class. Also, to me, being a teacher means to be very intelligent. My dream career has not changed until I was ten. And at the same time, I wanted to be an artist as well. I love drawing and I thought that I was very good in it, even without learning the skills and techniques, hence, I wanted to become an artist too. I drew by copying every details of the picture and making sure that every edge and curve is drawn according to its proportion. Some time later, being influenced by the Chinese-pop, I wanted to become a singer and, …show more content…
I tried to copy and follow the way the singers sing, making sure that every tone and rhythm was right. When I grew older, I was living in the dreams of a pianist. I wanted to be a pianist that steals the spotlight and the hearts of all nation with every note and key played with the gifted fingers of mine. The beautiful combination of different chords and keys of majors and minors was what that inspired me to a pianist at the age of fourteen. I wanted to play pieces of music that is able to bring out the deepest emotions of people; sad, happy, touched, romantic, tensed, relaxing, comforting, yearning and missing. I practised, as if I was Mozart, day and night. As time goes by, I was living in the dreams of a singer. Again! My singing improved over the years. I have sung in front of my families and friends a couple of times. My grandfather and a couple of my friends told me that I have a beautiful voice that has much potential and that I should go for vocal training. From the age of seven until now, my dream career …show more content…
Sometimes people speak without realizing that they have hurt someone. I may have done that before and I want to change and improve the way I speak. I want to speak to people with respect and in a polite manner in a way that people like it. Different people has personality and the way I speak and deal with different people has to be compatible with their personality. That way, I can avoid offending them in some other ways. I have friends with different personality. I tell myself that if I want to continue this relationship with them, I need to fit and tolerate the flaws in their personalities. I am facing difficulties in approaching people, and this is one of the areas of my life that I want to improve on because this is directly affecting the social skills of myself. Although it is a challenge for me, but I have improved in this area throughout the years. I learned to approach people in a more natural way when I was in college back in Malaysia by giving people a warm smile and say ‘Hello’. This is the easiest and most natural way to approach and to start a conversation with a person. Also, presentations and role plays in classes eventually builds my confidence in speaking and presenting myself. Even though I made some improvement ever since I have gotten here in the U.S.A., but I want to have more improvement in the next ten