Personal Statement: A Career As A Medical Assistant

I already have a basic idea of what I want to do for a living. I have always had a soft heart and empathetic mind for people. Already knowing this about myself, I know I absolutely have to pursue a job that serves other lives. I want to help people so badly, and the first step to deciding that’s what I needed to do involved changing my life plan. Sitting in that chair at the computer, imagining life at USU, I changed my whole path. I no longer wanted to go into agricultural sciences. I knew what I wanted to be then. I want to become a nurse. I immediately enrolled in the Tooele Applied Technology College to become a medical assistant and keep reaching towards my goal of becoming an RN. Once I knew what I wanted to do, the next step was to find a college I could go to that would give me the best training in the field I was …show more content…
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