Due to my great affinity for science at a very young age and my rapacious curiosity for almost all things mechanical and technological, radiologic technologist was an easy choice for the career to which I am best suited.
Ever since I can remember I have been greatly drawn toward science; as a hobby and academically. I know most young kids are filled with scads of questions about the world around them and things they don’t understand. But when I was a child I was so filled with curiosity that my parents bought me Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts. Most of the contents were over my head at the time but it did provide me with a great deal of inspiration. My obsession soon became animals; including humans. Seeing this, my parents signed me up for this amazing zoological series of magazines and index cards. I remember waiting for each monthly shipment of new index cards to put into my special green collector case like it was Christmas. This interest in animals soon developed into a pattern for me at school, whereas I would come home with straight A’s in my science classes; all others stagnated in the B minus to C range. In high school my fascination with animals abated and I became increasingly focused on the human body. Big surprise I know, a boy in high school fascinated with the human body. But it was more than that; I was enamored with the structure and function. This deep desire to learn how the human body works led me to an Allied Health profession; shallow pockets unfortunately prevented me from going to medical school.
The Essay on Human Life People Weak Animals
There are two sides to the theory "survival of the fittest." In our society some believe only the strong can survive and the weak cannot make it. Others believe that this idea is not all about the strong and the weak can overcome this idea. Some wonder how this idea affects us in out social policy today. Is survival of the fittest and social tied together that it makes our society weak? Some ...
In addition to supporting my desire to learn about animals; my parents had to put up with a very annoying habit of mine. I was one of those kids who needed to know how the insides of something worked. Toy or appliance, it didn’t matter, if it had screws holding it together sooner or later I was going to take it apart. My parents, God bless them, tried all manner of tactics to dissuade me from disassembling functional items. They bought me junior electrical kits; gave me hand me down toys from my brother and cousins. They even went so far as to buy me used or broken toys and gadgets from yard sales and thrift shops; just so I’d leave the toaster and various other household items alone. Another way I used to satisfy my need for tech know-how was to help my step-dad. He was a contractor and construction worker. He would teach me as he worked and I soaked it up like mother’s milk. This made my one and only science fair entry very interesting. In second grade I made a small desalination apparatus; completely of my own design and construction. The judges for the completion thought it was too advanced of an idea for a second grader to come up with on their own so they disqualified me. This didn’t discourage me however, science and technology continued to fascinate me even to this day.
Being a radiologic technologist or x-ray tech as it’s commonly known; requires an understanding and mastery of the human body’s structure and function married with the ability to adeptly utilize advanced technological machinery. My seemingly two unrelated interests of my youth made me the ideal student and ultimately a skilled and diverse technologist.
