Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?"

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" has always been my least favorite question.
I've felt like I'm way too young to know what I want to spend my life doing as a profession.
It seemed as though every two weeks I would think of something else to be,
But then I would always think of a reason doing it was not meant for me.
One thing was for certain, I was NOT sitting in an office day in and day out,
I wanted to go into a field that would help people, without a doubt.
Then came the issue of worrying if a college would have a major I would be enjoying,
Having to think about transferring if they didn't have anything for me would be very annoying.
I was always told just to go into whichever school undecided and find out later what my future holds,
Still I would always feel worried and stressed out, I don't have the patience to wait too long for it to unfold
So what is something I could do is a question that has been running through my mind,
Speech pathology was suggested by my mom, so I decided more information was what I needed to find.
Luckily, there is a speech pathologist that works with children in my aunt Dorian's school,
For a day I got the opportunity to shadow her, and it turns out I find the job to be pretty cool.
The speech teacher was so helpful to me and gave me enough facts make my decision,
Working with children as a speech pathologist is a life I can envision!

3 comments:

  1. Great poem Alexis! I'm sure everyone can relate to being stressed out when trying to figure out what they want to be. I love the fact that you found that you would like to work with kids and help them out. I wish you the best.

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  2. Awesome! Good luck with being a speech therapist.

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  3. Love your rhyming in this poem! Speech pathologist sounds like an interesting profession. I hope you found a college with this a major. Good luck!

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