Personal Narrative: My Educational Goals

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I started my educational goals just like every other student. I graduated from high school with the ideal that I would accomplish my goals within a short amount of time. I would become rich and live happily ever after. I graduate top of my class and assumed that I would go straight to college to purse my dreams. Although I did not have a defined idea of what I wanted to do in life, I always wanted to help people. After graduating from high school I attended community college to purse a degree in computers. I found myself uninterested and shortly after losing interest I dropped out of school. I decided that school was not for me. Therefore, I obtained a full time job and put my educational goals behind. Working for several years at odd

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