High school was finally over!

High school was done, and I was 17 years old and I had a big decision to make about my future.

Choice 1 : Go to college.

Choice 2 : Go to work.

Go to college.

Finally, I was an adult! I had my own responsibilities. I was in college to become a professional photographer. Even if I was in Montreal, far from home and all of my friends, I was motivated to learn all about being the best photograph.

Choice 1 : Keep going

Go to work.

I really had to know if I could be the best photograph in town! I had to quit my job to discover the world of photography.

Choice 1 : Go to college.

College was harder than I thought.

After only a couple of weeks, I was highly maddening literature courses. At the beginning of my session, I was looking for straight A's, doing all of my homework and making a very thoughtful job in that class. After couples of evaluations, I started to see how bad I was comparing to all of my classmates who were pulling off everything. I started to ask myself; What is wrong with me? I kept trying to work hard on my weaknesses and my bad habits of putting aside my homework. Even with all of my efforts, my notes were getting weaker, and it just all started to discourage me. I had two choices in front of me.

Choice 1 : Stay in school even if I don't like it.

Choice 2 : Go to work at a full time job.

Stay in school even if I don't like it.

I started to feel more lonely without any friends, and I was already undermined. Even if my colleagues were very kind, I was getting sucked up in that situation and needed to quit. I needed to be hired somewhere, at this time, to escape from depression.

Choice 1 : Go to work at a full time job.

Go to work at a full time job.

I was a new trainee at a minimum wage job. I was trained to become a baker. I learned how to bake bread, make pastries and serve the clients. At first, it seems fun to work in a place where there is food everywhere and everything smells so good but there were some drawback at all this. What if I start eating pastries all the time and guess what, that happened. I had this job for a couple of years, and I was so easily attract by all this amazing food, I started to gain weight. Maybe if my OJT told me I could not eat that much, that would have never happened to me.

Choice 1 : I need a new job

The new job.

I was selling sports clothes for years. It was never my goal, in that company, to have a premium wage but with time, I realized that it was a dead-end job. I did not have any in-depth study, which was a disadvantage to me. Totally by hazard, one day, someone presented me a project abroad where we could go help kids in Africa by building school desks. They were looking for volunteers that wanted to reach invaluable skills that would serve me all my life. At first, I was skeptical about the enrichment of volunteering, but the purpose of helping people in need was very attractive to me. The advantage of acquire skills about being more independent and resourceful was bigger than the disadvantage of not being paid. I had to make a choice of being less paid and make that trip to Africa or keep my stability of salary with my job.

Choice 1 : Go to Africa.

Choice 2 : Continue working.

Go to Africa.

I had the best experience of my life. Having the opportunity to go help kids in need really have pushed me to enjoy life and finally think more about my future. It made me realize that school was so important and I followed my guts to explore my passion for food and helping people so that I decided to go back to college after 9 years of work.

Choice 1 : Go back to college.

Continue working.

Deciding to stay at my job instead of going to Africa had consequences. In that time, I was recipient of sexual harassment at my job. It all started with flirting and slowly became worse. I had to impose my limits to deter him because I was not interested. He never really understood, and I was living constantly in dread that my predator won't ever stop. I had enough, so I decided to talk about the situation to my boss, which did not believed me, and I ended up being fired to my job and called liar. I should have gone to Africa, this would never have happened to me.

Choice 1 : Should have gone to Africa

Go back to college.

After 9 years of being on the market of work, I wanted to learn more about nutrition, and I discovered that becoming a dietetic technician could be a good start in that field. I started by taking science classes so that I could go in the technique. Becoming a dietetic technician would allow me to work in many places like food industries to create cooking recipes or doing the quality control, in hospitals to help patients having better food with the help of a nutritionist, and many other things. The variety of field in nutrition really attracted me.

Choice 1 : Finish college after 4 years

College is DONE!

I'm finally done with college, ready to move on with my career. I now have all the tools to find the right field that will challenge me every day of my life till my retirement.

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