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I Found My Passion, You Can Too

How I found my passion in life, the multiple career options I came across, and where I am now.

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I Found My Passion, You Can Too

Hailey Harkins (Myself)

Finding your passion in life can often be a rather difficult task. The passions you have can be an abundance of things, as for myself, I have a lot. Photography, Singing, helping people, being involved in many things and Special education teaching. Throughout my life, I have thought about many career paths that normally branch from one of my favorite TV shows. With Grey's Anatomy, I wanted to be an Orthopedic Surgeon, Criminal minds, a Profiler for the BAU, and finally to follow in my Father's footsteps and become a nurse. Honestly, none of those are where my hearts at. During my Junior year of high school, I found myself taking one of the most rewarding classes I have ever taken in my academic career.

At Hartland High School, we had a class titled Peer to Peer support. In this class, we immigrated to General education students and students with a difference in the same class. We were assigned a student to work with for half the semester we took them to there classes, helped them with their work, but most importantly made a new friend. This is not a class you see in every school which is rather upsetting. Within this class, I made some of my best friends and I found my passion in Special Education Teaching.

Special Education Teaching, is not only one of my favorite things to talk about but it is the most rewarding job there is. This job is most definitely not for everyone, There is a lot of patience and dedication that comes with the job. You are a major part of that child's support system, along with his/her family, friends, doctors and other administrators.

During my junior year of high school, there was a certain student that I ate lunch with whenever I could. This happened to be Heck week for drama club, he and I were eating lunch and just messing around like usual, and he was laughing so much about the simplest thing and that's when I knew that I wanted to do this job for the rest of my life.

When you're at a crossroad about what you are passionate about, nobody ever said I can only do that one passion because as of today I am majoring in special education teaching and photography. Do what makes your heart sing like mine does every day.

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