Personal Narrative: Pursuing A Career In Elementary Education

Life is full of choices, some of which are not easy decisions to make. At eighteen years old, I have made many decisions in my life, carrying from what to wear in the morning to what classes I should take in high school in order to better prepare myself for college. Being the youngest of three children in my family, I am the last one to decide what career path I wish to follow. Both of my older sisters pursued careers in the field of medicine, and it was expected that I would as well. I felt great pressure from friends and family to go into the medical field and found a lack of support from them when I decided to pursue a career in elementary education.
I was told my entire life that I should do what makes me happy, and to pursue a career in a field where my passions lie. Both of my siblings and I are driven to help people, I have just chosen to help people by educating them rather than seeing to their medical needs. After I announced that I wished to pursue a career in teaching, I was not met with the same encouragement and congratulations that my sisters were met with when they announced their career path choices. Instead, I had people constantly pushing me in the direction of nursing or becoming a doctor. Blood makes me squeamish and doctors …show more content…
This is what my parents say, with pride, when asked what their daughters are going to, or went to, school for. Almost without fail, someone brings up the fact that teaching is not in medicine and that I am breaking the chain. It used to bother me when people would make comments like that, but now I have learned to take it in stride and not let it get to me. Teaching is where my passion lies, not in medicine. Though the path of medicine has been traveled by my sisters, I have chosen to take the road of teaching. I am taking the road that has not yet been traveled by a Scott girl, but it is the road that fills me with excitement and anticipation for what the future