There weren’t many things I was interested in as a kid, or at least not much that I can remember. The only thing I could say I was interested in was how to become a doctor. In my early stages of school, my siblings told me becoming a doctor would mean I would succeed, and of course my parents wanted me to be successful when I grew up so becoming a doctor was one of the first things that came to mind. Becoming a doctor was my dream for a good chunk of my elementary school life. I’m not interested in it anymore, but back then I was super enthusiastic about it. My hype slowly died down though as I learned about the long proccess of Medical School. I wasn’t as enthusiastic when family and teachers would tell me about it, but it’s not like I was going to let that discourage me. I was going to keep it up and try and become a doctor anyway, well until I was in the third grade.
My third grade school year really hit home the idea that “school sucks” for me. As I came to dislike school, I also came to dislike the idea of going to what I called “Doctor School.” Medical School sounded like more work to me, so I wanted to avoid that. Soon enough, becoming a doctor just felt like something my parents wanted for me. But the thing that officially ended my curiosity was a fifth grade Graphics Design class I had. That was my first introduction to the Technology Field. I then had 3 years after that of coding classes mixed with my middle school curiculum and becoming a doctor became a thing of the past. My interest in the Medical Field completely died and my interest in the Tech Field took over. Unlike my interest in medicine, my interest in coding was completely my own. It was something I discovered for myself and something I fell in love with myself. Maybe that’s why my curiosity for it is way stronger than my curiosity for medicine.
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