Life is like taste buds, it's never ending inevitable change. Choosing what career you want to peruse is unfortunately tough, thinking of life like a game it's not a simple as choosing a class for your character, sure, you can hit the reset button and change career path whenever you like but it might become more difficult as you get older.

I've had my own experience with changing careers, before I first started school I loved programing, I was self taught in Java, C++, and I was working on learning C#. I was having fun, my young brain enjoyed that feeling I got when I created something and it actually worked. So when I first enrolled into Lone Star I originally went into computer science exhilarated and fueled with passion because I was getting into something I had fun doing. Due to this field involving a lot of math during my first semester I was in one of the advanced math courses and without sugar coating it I was never the best any form of math, never the less I still managed to get 80-90% grades on all of my assignments however I greatly struggled during the in-person portion of the course due to the large amount of on the spot mental math you had to perform which was not my strong suit, my professor caught wind of this struggle and emailed me strongly advising me to drop out of the course due to this, needless to say this put me down emotionally because for the most part I believed professors should be someone you can look up to and go to for help. I ended up passing that course and the semester after my excitement returned as I began my intro to python course which had assignments starting/due as early as the first week which required books to complete the assignment which were not previously listed when enrolling in the course which would take at least a couple days to arrive, me and along with several other students in that course had a group email with the professor asking for extensions in the assignment to get the books and equipment he was requiring for these assignments but no response ever came until 3 weeks later where he apologized for his late reply but no extensions would be given which left me including around 7 other students with 0% on the first three assignments (there was one assignment every week), I had emailed him personally asking for help on how I can recover my grade from this or if I may be allowed to submit late work for partial grade, his response was unfortunately not what I wanted to hear as he said no makeup work can be done at this point and mentioning due to nothing was submitted yet he advised I drop the course, and with no grade to work off of I had to drop the course. These back-to-back events caused me to loose interest in this field of study because the bad experience just got to me and I didn't want to go back into it, fearing I would have another situation like that.

All of that lead to switching programs to another subject I was interested in, visual communications. I've had a good time here ever since and for the most part I gave up on programming even for fun because the experiences I had left a sour taste in my mouth, however, about 3 years down the line I realized one of the required courses for visual communications is web design I & II which were both taught by the same professor, originally I wasn't very sure about it but the professor was amazing, extremely helpful and everything during the in-person portion of her classes were extremely informational, throughout both courses I forgot how much I actually enjoyed programing.

Currently, I'm in my final semester here at Lone Star, and I still do not regret making my career/program change, some people can bare through all the negativity and I'm sure some of the students in those computer science courses originally with me are probably about to graduate with their degree in that field, and maybe if I was the person I am today I might have been able to power through it and finish that program. Of course by no means am I saying to change career paths just because bad things happen, because unfortunately bad things in everyone's career will happen, simply my 15 year old mind could not handle those bad things then, and I'm still glad I made my switch because I am happy with my accomplishments now and I don't think I would've been if I sticked with computer science, but in the end it's all about what works for YOU.