Why did I choose my career?

When I was a child, I wanted to be a singer and a dancer. I also loved animals, until now, so I wanted to be a veterinary.  I think that I was interested in those topics because I was influenced by my family, because all the members of my family like and made music and art, but not in a professionally way.

When I had to make a choice about my career, I was a little confused. I liked very much Psychology, but I was better at sciences like Math, Chemistry and Biology. I also was good at Philosophy, but in History not so much. So I didn’t know what career choose. I knew that I loved in general terms the sciences of the mind. I was interested in the knowledge of the human being and in reflecting about why we think, feel, or do in a certain way. So I chose a career that has a little of Philosophy, and Science, and that has as a central topic the human behavior and the subjectivity. So I chose Psychology.

My experience at university it was very good at the beginning because there are a lot of critical subjects that make you reflect and question your ways of thinking, that in the most of the case, hurts your mental health, and that conditioned by a prevailing ideology. And to me, being aware of that, it’s so important because your way of thinking is not natural, and knowing that, helps to our mental health and to be able, even a small step forwards is, to change the prevailing ideology.

But the last years of my career haven´t been so good because the subjects aren’t critical and the contents are treated superficially.

From a social point of view, I can say that I had made very good friends that support me in everything.

About the kind of job that I´d like to have I haven't decided yet, but I think that I’d like a job where I choose my own timetable. So it will be great to  practice in a private way, also because of economic reasons.  However, doing only this, I think that I would feel  frustrated, because, one of the most important reasons that I like my career is “help” people with his emotional pain or with his mental health, so I think that I would spend part of my time working as a volunteer in some organization, or community.  But doing both things probably it will difficult, so I think that I’d like to work in an institution like SENAME for example. However, I haven’t decided yet.