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American Dream for Success-Amanda

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Most Americans think of the American Dream as money or other types of material positions but the American Dream to me is none of those things. To me the American Dream has always been more centered on myself. I want for myself to live a happy life. I feel that to achieve this I have to have a successful job that I love doing.

I have always excelled in math. When other kids were playing games on the computer I was busy playing with numbers. That was my way of having fun. In fourth grade I was doing math the middle school kids were doing, and in eighth grade I was doing math the high school kids were doing. Even know as a high school student I am in advanced math classes, and am able to tutor kids at lower math levels. Math has always been a passion for me because I understand it so well. My teachers, especially, saw this in me, and they have always told me that I should look into a career that is very involved with math. They suggested stuff like becoming a teacher, but the one thing that really caught my eye was accounting. After hearing this over and over again, through my years in high school, I did research on the career of Accounting. I fell in love with the job after finding that most Accountants are very successful in what they do. I new this was the job that was going to help me obtain my American dream of having a successful job that I love.

I have done many things to help me become an Accountant. The one thing I know I did that helped me keep on trying for my dream was the Montana State Math competition in Missoula. This is a competition Missoula holds every year for high schools around the state. Anyone can sign up for the competition but you have to do well to place. I was only in the 8th grade but I wasn’t going to let that stop me. I was determined to go. They had four different types of test. A pot luck test which is all subjects in one test. Then they had a geometry, algebra, and group test. When they sat me down to take the test I remember looking through it and knowing that I was going to do well. I never thought that I was going to do as well as actually I did. When all test were over we had to wait a week before getting the results, but when we got the result I found out that I did really well. I didn’t take 1st or 2nd not even 3rd, but as an 8th grader I got Honorable Mention in two of the test categories. I got honorable mention in pot luck and in group team. If you got an Honorable Mention that meant that you had placed in the top ten. This wasnt the best, but out of more than 100 kids taking the test that was pretty good.

I still have a lot to do to become an Accountant, but this is stuff I know I can get past. The things I know I must do to become an accountant are things like going to college taking the five years program and passing the national test. I also think it would be fun to do and internship for a couple summers just to get a little taste of what it will be like when I am on my own.

I just know this is the job I was made for, and hope that this will make me achieve my all time American dream of having a successful job that I love. If not then I guess I’m out of luck because this is what I have been preparing myself for all my life.

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