Personal Narrative: My Plans For After High School

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My plans for after high school would be a lot of different things that I'm not sure of yet. The first thing I want to do is of course, go in to the beauty industry. I'm starting out on YouTube, doing makeup tutorials. Basically I just show how to do different type of makeup looks, get views, and hopefully start gaining subscribers and take off my beauty career from there. I recently bought a Sony a5000 camera with a flip up screen to start off. Now if that doesn't work out, my other option would be a nurse. I've always liked helping other people or animals. I've always been adventurous I guess you could say. I don't get tense or nauseous when seeing blood. It's definitely not a sight I enjoy seeing, but I'm not completely freaked out like

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