For this blog entry I'm supposed to write about how I became interested in engineering. To be completely honest at this point in my life it doesn't look like I'm going to pursue a career in engineering, but when I applied to the University of Miami it seemed like something I wanted to do. I've since become much more interested in entrepreneurship and am in the process of starting up a small business with a friend of mine and his father.
When I began applying for colleges the first question I asked myself was "What do I want to study?", because it would be a big factor in what colleges I applied to. My grandfather was an electrical engineer for a few years before FPL offered him a grant to study law and work for them as a lawyer. It seemed like an interesting field and jobs in engineering tend to pay pretty well. To be completely honest money is very important to me. I don't see any reason to settle for a job where I'm not going to make as much money as possible because I don't want to live a normal life. It seems boring, quite frankly. My grandfather came to this country from Cuba when he was 7 years old and came from a family of 7 brothers and an alcoholic mother. He was still able to make himself an extremely successful businessman through hard work and perseverance. My ultimate goal is not to be an egalitarian who helps everyone at their own expense. That might be what other people want to do with themselves but I'm looking out for myself first. I'm just trying to do what I want to and it doesn't really make a difference in the grand scheme anyways. My priority is to make sure I'm happy with where I am in my life, and I'm doing a pretty good job of it so far.
I guess I kind of strayed from the topic of the blog post, but it asked me to speak about some problem in science that interests me and I don't really have any, so I wrote about what does interest me. I'm sure there are plenty of people that don't agree with me and it doesn't really matter. The best way to lead your life is to make sure you're happy with what you're doing, and I can definitely say at this point I'm doing better than I expected I would be.
I've really never looked at life this way. You have a very interesting point. I've always lived life as a normal person, never asking myself wheter I'm happy or not, just going throughout middle school, high school, and college as I felt every normal person does, without questioning if this is what I really want or need. After reading this I feel as if I have to reevaluate my expectations and goals, and look to pursue what really makes ME happy, not do what otheres want me to do or what I feel I'm supposed to do. While keeping personal happiness and fulfillment in mind is always important, it is equally important to keep in mind the proper role of money in life. It is both necessary and enabling on many levels; however, in my opinion money is a means to an end, and it sounds as though the auther of the blog considers money to be an end in and of itself rather than a way to get to a more meaningful end.
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