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An outsider goes inside.

I've always hated to be inside.

Climbing beats a day at the office at any and all times.

When I was a kid, I'd spend the summers tearing around the neighborhood on my freedom

machine, the bicycle. When I first started thinking about what I wanted to do when I grew up, my

thought was this, there's no way I'm working at a

job where I'm confined to an office. When I got a little older, I wasn't sure how reasonable

it was to work outside, so I gave up on that. Like 98% of boys, my next

thought was this. Plains, I want to be a pilot, how do I get to fly an F-16? Later, someone told me that you needed perfect

eyesight to fly. So I dismissed my F-16 dreams. In high school, I still had no clue about what I wanted to do. The only thing I

did know was that I like science so I took biology, chemistry, and physics classes.

By the time I got to college I still had no idea what I wanted to be.

I liked writing but the job prospects for journalism weren't good. I knew that I'd have to take out loans to go to university and I wasn't

willing to take on loads of debt for an uncertain career. What to do? I still like

science so I studied biology at Northern Illinois University. Four years

later, I graduated and still had no idea what I wanted to do. So I enrolled in a Doctor of Pharmacy program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

About halfway through my first year at pharmacy school, I realized that working as a pharmacist would not make me happy.

I was telling my roommate about my dilemma and he said something like this.

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