It's amazing how throughout your life, people tell you that you can be anything you want to be. And while for some that may be true, others sooner or later realize that in order to be what you want to be, you have to develop your skill set in the area which you choose. The hard thing about it though, is that to develop your skill, you have to first recognize your strengths and your weaknesses. School teaches us the fundamentals, the basics. It creates for us the foundation to a long and exhausting life path in which we work to support a lifestyle, whether it's the lifestyle we want, or the lifestyle that we fall into.
We start with your basic subjects. Language skills/English, Math, Science, Social Studies/History and the Arts. From these subjects we learn what areas we're good at. Some of us excel in all of them, making us a well rounded individual who can pretty much go into any field in which we dream of. Others of us get grouped into the categories of being excellent with numbers, or being excellent with words and facts. Either way, our paths are created for us from the beginning, and it's then that we begin to realize that this is just the beginning of honing our knowledge and developing it into something that we can use to build our future.
I was one of those students who was pretty much well rounded. I had high grades all across the board and I learned things quickly. I was in advanced classes, and my teachers recognized my dedication to my school work, but they realized the one thing I had was a tendency to overwhelm myself, and thus, it created a bit of anxiety. I found however, that I was more into Arts and English/History/Social Sciences than being so privy to numbers. But my dreams were basically not my own. My parents had instilled in me at a young age that I would one day be a lawyer, and when choosing colleges that's what I focused on.
My degree is in Media & Communications and while studying I wanted to become a radio producer. I loved being behind the microphone and I loved being able to edit audio, turning them into shows, commercials, promos, etc. But lately, I found my degree was the foundation for something a little different..that my communication skills, and my retail management abilities combined, can take me anywhere, including marketing. However, a lifestyle change has also influenced me to focus on my nutrition and my health and well-being.
My dad works for a nutrition company, and I found that they have a marketing department, as any large and successful company would. The fantastic thing about it is that I now have a new dream...to join my dad's corporation and take my knowledge of my new great lifestyle, and bring that to others. Sounds like a fantastic plan to me. I'm going for it, and it all starts now.
