by When you are growing up, there is one common question everyone asks:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Most children want to be teachers when they grow up because that is the career they are around for the majority of their lives. I was one of those kids who always wanted to be a teacher. When I was in high school, I had a teacher who was a great mentor and helped me overcome anxiety and many more mental issues I had at the time. I wanted to be the same role model for kids and help them when they were in school dealing with similar issues. However, that was not the path I wanted to continue to take but that leads back to the question:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
My name is Faith Zivkovich and I received my Associate of Liberal Arts from Cuyahoga Community College in 2021. I am now a senior at Baldwin Wallace University. I went in with the mindset that I was going to study higher education, but I quickly found out it was not for me. It was not until the fall of 2022 that I decided I wanted to study communications and public relations. This is a career path that sparks my interest and is something that I am passionate about. There are many doors that will open and opportunities that will present themselves. Now that I am close to the end, the same question comes back.
I have been a server at Yours Truly Restaurants since 2019, but with the company since 2017. I am very excited to be joining Kee on Sports to help grow my professionalism and gain experience in the journalism field. This internship alone will provide many learning experiences along with growing my network. Even though being a server is a great job, especially in college, I know this is one thing I do not want to continue when I grow up.
I think this question can be interpreted in different ways because it does not necessarily mean what you want to do as a career. When I grow up, I want to be happy and financially stable. I want to live as stress-free as possible. I want to start a family and be able to make every day for the rest of my life count.
It is okay to not know what you want to be when you grow up. People are going to change their minds a great number of times before actually finding something that best fits them. This is why it is important to learn and explore new things in college. Get out of your comfort zone and try new things because you may end up liking something you never expected. There is no need to get stressed over the question:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
You have a whole life ahead of you to figure it out. You can change your mind as many times as you want. Make sure when you grow up, the one thing you are is happy.
