What do you want to do when you grew up? I feel like I always had an answer to that when I was a kid. It changed constantly, sure, but I had a definite answer to what I wanted to do. For a while it was an astronaut, until we watched Apollo 13 and it scared me straight. I think my mother planned that on purpose. When I got back from the mission and people asked me I would throw my hands up and say "I have no idea." After a while I didn't like doing that because I felt it would make girls less interested in me. "Oh, you don't have a plan? Your one of those guys?" That kind of thing. So if I had a thought of something I might want to do, I would just say it as if I was totally set on that. I felt it made me much cooler. When I came to BYU-H, everyone else here seemed as lost as I did so I stopped hiding the truth. Luckily my father hadn't given up on me and after several phone calls going over lots of different career options I decided I wanted to go into Information Systems. I hadn't really been considering going into the software development world, but as I looked at it I felt it was a good fit. I play on computers for fun, why not do it for work? I had done a little programming in high school, I didn't mind it but I didn't necessarily love it. So that is why I opted for Information Systems over Computer Science. Because it involves some programming but also a lot of business stuff. People in the Information Systems world are often in positions where they have one foot in the business world and one foot in the development world. It involves a lot of work designing databases and refining business processes. Its a broad field, so maybe I can't say exactly what I want to do just yet. But I have a direction I feel good about, and that sure feels nice.
Plus, I live in Hawaii, so I got that going for me.
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