First Decision

As years went by high school was easier... I gained confidence in myself every day and those with more will to disturb than to study started dropping out progressively. After four years it was time to make an important decision… I had to decide what I was going to do after getting my High School Degree?... What am I going to study? Am I going to take the safe boring path or the passionate one? Am I going to search and fighting for something I am passionate about? The answer was clear in my mind… and if you think I started then following my heart… you are wrong.

    

"Life Inertia" leaded me to study Industrial Engineering at Polytechnic University of Valencia. That was my decision ... I stopped going to my Martial Arts classes , I stopped going to the gym, I stopped watching my old movies, I stopped exercising... All I did was: Study, go to math classes , physics ... lab ... study ... chemistry classes… study and study for the exams… pass, fail, pass, fail…  the more time I was in that University, the less motivated I was. The turning point came in the second semester when I was attending this class called "Introduction to Industrial Engineering" or "IIE".

   

   

That afternoon I was sitting in one of the little class chairs trying to to remember how to solve one of the problems, when the teacher started explaining which were most likely the Jobs an Industrial Engineer could have… Something like working in the Production Control in a Factory, Quality management, Mechanical Projects Development, Industrial Facility Supervision, Designing the Engine of Large Electronic or Mechanical Structures, Industrial Machines Supervision, etc... When the class was over I took my bike back home. The teacher's words still echoed in my mind when all of a sudden I realized I got sidetracked… I was not at home, surprisingly I was in front of my Martial Arts gym ... Then it hit me BOOM! My inner voice started shouting at me "What the hell are you doing Alberto?". It was then when I decided to make some changes in my life. First: Not to come back to my IIE classes or to any other Industrial Engineering classes. Second: I had to go back to my Martial Arts Classes. Third: I was going to decide what did I really wanted to study. That's when I started wondering which University school was the one that I really liked… Which were the field I did wanted to know more about… The answer was clear

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When I studied Ind. Eng the average number of years any student had to study until he got his degree were 8 years ... You better be sure about that before you get in. Do you wanna know what happened then?