#2B Three Significant Events

The first event is when I was a senior in high school and I was sitting at home filling out my application to GMU. I really had no idea what I wanted to do or major in. As I was looking at the application, I knew I had to pick something. So as I was sitting there thinking about what I was good at, and something I would enjoying doing, I checked the Athletic Training box. I knew I was good at math, but did not want an office job. Confine spaces distract me, and I would never get any work done. I had thought about being a physical therapist for a while, so I wanted something that would be close to getting me there. Not to mention I played 3 sports in high school, two which were year around. So, as I checked that box right then and there, it started my career path.
The second significant event happened the summer after I graduated high school. I got my first job working at a daycare for kids with autism. I was a junior therapist, which I thought was a pretty awesome job. I worked 4 hours a day, and I helped the therapists with the kids when they went on outings, or field trips. This was significant to me because I saw how rewarding it was to see a child improve over the course of three months. Every summer after that I came back and worked there as a therapist, each summer getting better and better, more rewarding. This is when I started to think that I could do this as a career: teach special education during the day, and after school do athletic training.
The third event happened not too long ago. Still stuck on what I really wanted to do for the rest of my life, I attended a summer intern program at Temple University for podiatry. It was a week long program, including lectures, shadowing podiatrist, and hands on workshops. This workshop was really fun and lead me to believe I could go to medical school and get a specialty in podiatry. After this program, I asked if I could shadow a podiatrist for the rest of the summer. I liked shadowing, but at the end of the summer I realized that its not quite what I want to do for the rest of my life. So the search continues…