What Made Me choose My Career by ryllan

What Made Me choose My Career by ryllan - February 2024 Scholarship Essay

What are you going to do with your life, you are never going to be anything. It feels like I was told those exact words everyday by everyone around me. What makes you so special compared to everybody else. I’m not exactly sure. I would like to believe that it is my motivation to succeed or maybe my willingness to learn. High school has taught me a lot but the lesson that I believe to be the most important is that you are not going to please everyone. One of the things that I have always enjoyed is band, Band has been a place that I can go and fail, but failure isn’t always a bad thing: failure can be a path to success. I have always believed that to accomplish something great you must fail. There's something about knowing that you have hit rock bottom that makes you realize that the only way to go is up. The band community has felt like a second home to me: the community, the memories, the early and late nights. There's something about being on a bus at 5 in the morning that makes you wonder why I signed up for this, but then you look around and see everyone that you have helped developed both mentally and physically thriving. It gives you a sense of accomplishment: a meaning.
Trying to find this meaning has caused me to choose the career Senior software engineer. I want to learn and take in everything from the more knowledgeable, and then eventually I would like to pass my knowledge onto the younger generations. Why software engineer; the trial and error, the learning curve and the competition. The field of computer science is a very competitive field, which I know will push me much harder than I think possible. In my very first year in middle school, I took an intro to coding class; I fell in love I loved the challenge and the way that I was able to fail. This failure allowed me to accomplish many projects within the time that I was in this class. This sense of accomplishment lead to me taking another two years of computer science classes each more advanced than the last.