Statement Of Purpose: Becoming An Adult

These last few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about growing up. As a junior in high school, I’m just starting to consider what colleges I want to apply to and careers I want to explore. Thinking ahead five years is not very uncommon during this point in my life, and I’ve had plenty of time to think about the changes that becoming an adult will bring about. Hopefully, most of these changes will be for the better as I move forward to achieve my goals.

Living on my own.
When I turn eighteen, I plan on moving out of my parents’ house in Toledo to California. This transition will obviously bring about a whole slew of changes by itself, since I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life. Living on my own, I’ll have to take care of my own living expenses, which will include rent, groceries, and utilities, just to name a few. I’ll be in charge of my own well-being, which will be new for me considering the fact that I’ve never lived on my own before in a new place. If all goes well, I should have enough experience in this area in five years.

I’m finally a screenwriter (almost)!
Right now, I’m working on writing screenplays on my own time for myself. I work as a cashier at Savers, and I have an internship under a local portrait artist. In five years, I’ll be working on my career as an actual screenwriter. I’ll continue studying writing on a college level, …show more content…
The Golden State is heavily populated with a different society than that in the midwest, and it will surely take me a while to adapt. Since it’s so far away from Ohio, I won’t be around my family much and I won’t be able to see them very often. After living with my parents all my life, in five years, I hope I’ll be used to living without them. I also won’t be able to enjoy the places and things I love so much about my hometown of Toledo, but I’m sure I’ll be able to find many other things about California that I’ll grow to love as