Madye Moore Assignment 5

Deciding what to be when I grow up seemed to be the easiest question ever when I was younger. You'd ask me that question and the automatic response would've been a Vet, and it was that up until I turned 15. However, my views have changed since then, and I'm kind of in a dilemma at the moment. I'm debating 2 careers right now, both with 2 totally different paths for college. The first one is Sports Marketing/Management. I have been exposed to sports my entire life, and I love it, so getting a job in that field would be amazing (I don't even think it would seem like a job sometimes, considering I'd be doing something that I absolutely love doing). If I were to take this career path, I would go to the University of South Carolina in the fall and enroll in their Sports Marketing and Management College. Sure, with this job I would gain monetary fulfillment (considering the starting salaries are $90,000+), but I think it would be more of a personal fulfillment for me, since I will be doing what I enjoy for the rest of my life. The second career I'm debating at the moment is becoming a Pediatric Oncologist. Yes, this job could definitely be a sad one at times, but I feel that being able to save one child's life would outweigh the fact that there is always a slight chance it doesn't work. Being able to go to work everyday and see the kid's smiling faces although they are often going through the hardest time of their life would not only give me motivation to get up and go to work every morning, but it would also make it the most rewarding job in the world when you get cleared as cancer-free, and I can't imagine what it'd be like to be apart of that. With this job I would definitely gain monetary fulfillment, but once again, I feel like it would be more of a personal fulfillment for myself. I plan to achieve this goal by attending the University of Kentucky in the fall and enroll in the Pre-Med program, although I am not sure what I'd major in at this time.