Election of my Profession

Hi, again.

In this opportunity, I will talk about the election of my career. Like you should remember from my first post, currently, I´m studying Public Administration at the University of Chile, but this decision was not easy, I thought for a lot of time about the profession that I would probably develop throughout my life.

When I went to the secondary school, I began to think seriously in which career to choose. I was between journalism and engineering, and probably your reaction in this moment is WOW, it´s completely different. I know that, but it was what I felt in that moment. This duality is because I love so much the power the media mass in the society and I really appreciate the serious work of journalists, I like the words and it's a great dream work with them all the time. On the other hand was the engineering, and probably this option was for the traditional customs and because I´m good with the math, and it sounded very well to be a manager of a company. In the end those careers did not convince me at all, because I wanted something interdisciplinary, in where I probably can be able to generate changes and I learned a lot from many topics, without leaving aside the mathematics.

After, I began to think in Political Sciences and Public Administration (PA) and I researched these professions and their profiles, I finally concluded that the first career was too theoretical and I convinced myself that PA was the correct career because it´s more practical and the work field is broad and I will be able to generate changes and work with the people and for them. Besides, with this careerI could  learn about different disciplines and be in contact with the society.

That was the story of my decision to study Public Administration and until now I feel well with my decision, I have been learning and I like studying politics, the way to manage and how to investigate in a serious way. I really hope to be a good professional and I would love to work abroad; representing my country and creating public policies or doing research and writing important papers for the development of ideas that help to generate changes.