Alright, so here goes... I have to write an extra credit paper for my anatomy class about why I wanna be an OT and how I decided that's what I wanna do. It can be as short or long as I would like. So I decided I would write it here first so I can get all my ideas out and then read it over and see which ideas I wanna put in my actual paper.
Unfortunately, I don't have a great story like some people... Like on the first day of my OCC 220 class last semster when everyone was like, my (insert relative here) has (insert disease/disorder here) and I just loved what the OT did and knew that that was what I wanted to do!
Yeah, I wasn't like that. I don't have some wonderful inspiring story about why I want to be an OT, and I definately didn't know what I wanted to be "when I grew up" until the very end of my junior year of high school; no one would leave me alone about it either -"no, I have no idea what I wanna do with my life! Leave me alone!!"
Actually, I kinda had an idea, it just sounded stupid and corny and nerdy... I knew I wanted to do two things in my future career - I wanted to help people and I wanted it to be something science-y. Also, my mom is a nurse and she has always loved her jobs and she worked with such a variety of populations - I wanted that in a career too, because I'm kind of ADD and I can't imagine being stuck in the same place for the rest of my life.
So basically one day I was browsing college websites, and I came across this video of Occupational Therapy students demonstrating some of the adaptive equipment they would be using in the field, and I was like, Cool! So I looked into it, and well, it seems like the perfect job for me. So here I am studying OT, and well, I guess that's the end of the story.
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