Personal Narrative: A Career As A Marine Biologist

In order to figure out a list of occupations that strongly interested me, I did a few different things. I wanted to make sure that the occupation would most likely fit my personality and lifestyle rather than just picking random careers. I feel as if it is extremely important to take your time with a topic like this. Your career shapes who you are as a person and you wouldn’t want to be stuck in the wrong career and be unhappy. To be honest, finding a list of careers that strongly interested me was a quite difficult process. I believe that it was difficult for me personally because I am a picky person yet I like many different things at the same time. I have always been one to never stop learning and striving for more so I really took the time with this assignment. This is what I found to be helpful. …show more content…
I took a moment to think about what I have always wanted to be when I was in my younger years. The answer was simple, a Marine Biologist. That was the quickest and easiest career choice I picked that I wanted to learn more about because I have always had an interest in that particular occupation. Throughout my whole life, I have always told people that I wanted to move to the coast and be a Marine Biologist. I absolutely love spending time with animals, particularly marine animals. I don’t think that I would have ever found this occupation by taking my results from the self-assessments to consideration. I have never had a final result that pointed me in that direction or anywhere close. This could certainly mean that becoming a Marine Biologist just isn’t the correct occupation for me, but it could also mean that the self-assessments just don’t give me a well-rounded