Of my Dreams and my Realities and Why I became a Lawyer...

I’m a lawyer, it was almost a year ago that I graduated as such, it was not something I have always dream of, all my childhood and teenage years I wanted to be a Doctor, as I almost finish high school, I prepare myself to achieve that goal I study hard and went and took the test to be allow into the medical school 3 times, I was so frustrated I have study so hard and nothing happen, I always came close but no close enough, it was actually heartbreaking to see others get in and not me I was so worry I wasn’t going to get accepted in a collage.

Let's face it at that age that is all that matters if you don’t get accepted, them you feel like a failure to yourself and to your family all the fortune you could have earn will never be, all the success you could have will never happen, so in a moment of desperation I decide to apply to the faculty of accountancy to become a public accountant.
That day I was so not excited nor was in my opinion prepare enough to took that test that day, I didn’t study at all for it, I woke up late and I didn’t care about it at all, it was a divide in 3 parts abstract knowledge, math and literature, is the kind of test that if you answer one question wrong it takes you 2 points out your score (to prevent the guessing of answers) as I was going through it I didn’t take time with the questions that were hard I only answer the ones that I knew I finish it so quickly I jut wanted to go to my house and fall sleep again (it was a Saturday people shouldn’t have to wake up so early on a Saturday!) anyways I was no expecting that a month later I would get accepted into Collage for that career, I though well if I had study so hard for medicine and didn’t get in this for sure will never happen, and it did I was shock how was that fair? I wasn’t excited right away I was actually furious; my mom and dad were so proud their daughter just got into one of the most prestigious universities of the country (The University of Carabobo) a public one (in Venezuela Public Universities are the most prestigious ones) but I was not I was mad I didn’t get in for the major I wanted (medicine) but for one I didn’t actually care about nor did I like it.

Anyways I was in so I got excited as the days past for the perspective of going to collage it was a whole new universe of opportunities opening wide open for me, the first semester was good (this major is 5 years long divided between 10 semesters) I had 5 classes one of them was Introduction to Math and Logic, oh man was this not something I liked I was so not interested in math at all (yeah I know a public accountant all it does all day is looking at numbers so that was a bad start) anyways I had to passed in order to keep advancing. I didn’t pass that class in the first semester, all the other 4 classes I did with a score of 18 out 20 a really good score, but I had to repeat math this class it took me 5 semesters to pass it.
It wasn’t that I didn’t study it was now I see a case that just give up every time I studied for a quiz and didn’t met the require score to pass it that I stopped trying, and now I know that it was because I just didn’t like it.
It just wasn’t for me so no matter how hard I try it I didn’t actually give my best cause internally I really didn’t care about it.

I was so frustrated by it I was wasting my time in a major I didn’t like I needed to do something and I starting think I should just quit school all together I didn’t have the chance to study the one thing I always wanted and now I was stuck studying a major I didn’t like.
My younger sister was out of high school by then and she was looking get into law school, it was not possible for her to get into a public university like I did so she started looking for a private one (no there are no medical schools in private universities only the publics one had them) as I was accompanying her to one to get info on how to enroll in it I became aware of how easy could be to just study law there was not math on that one hahahahaha, so I just quit public accountancy and enroll in law school, just to had a degree in something.

Little did I knew how much I would come to love my new major, I fall in love with it on my first class I was so excite this time to be in a class that I did like it was such a different experience (this major also takes 5 years to complete and is also divided into 10 semesters). I don’t have any regrets on the time I wasted on the public accountancy major I learn a lot about me in the process and also about the way university works and of the major of course.

Now I’m a proud lawyer of the Republic Bolivarian of Venezuela and I love my profession even though is so hard to be a lawyer in this country where laws are so dismissed every day. (I’ll do a post someday about what I love most about this career and how I did in law school).

I do this post to share a little bit more about me and to show that even though you don’t always get what you want at first you can still get happy and be in a place better than what you expected.

So, doesn’t matter how hard life may seem some days it will always can get better!

pd. i apologize for such a long post =)

source of images: first ones are from Google and the last ones are mine =)