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Personal Narrative: How Did I Change My Major

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According to the National Center for Education, about 80 percent of the students in the United States end up changing their major at least once. In fact, I myself am part of that 80 percent. Not only did I change my major, I changed Universities in order to discover who I’am and find a suitable career for me. To start off with, as a transfer student coming from a local state college to the University of Central Florida was a huge change. It was a different change because it was the first time I was going to be away from home. I have spent the last twenty-one years under my parent’s wings and it was time to grow and flourish, but that is much easier said than done, it would also be much easier if I was not such a shy person. But my decision …show more content…

A few weeks into my management class and I disliked it and knew this major was not for me. On the other hand, my marketing class was going great and it peaked my interest like no other class had done before. I do not know if it was the topics or if it was my amazing professor who convinced me to be a marketing major but I was hooked and this is when I knew I wanted to change my degree. What is marketing you ask? Well marketing is the process by which individuals and groups obtain what they are in need of and want, by doing this they are creating and exchanging value and product. As a marketing major you are responsible for the understanding the current customer’s needs and their wants. You are also responsible for potential customers, finding new opportunities in which will make the company grow and developing and tracking the marketing plan so that the company is following the correct procedure and making more customer focused decisions. After completing my assessment in MyPlan.com, I was given the results that my personality type is ( ISTJ ), which stands for introverted, sensor, thinker, and judger. I knew I was introverted but I did not know I was able to switch from introverted to extroverted, which is what has helped with peruse and find more information about the …show more content…

It is something I truly enjoy and cannot get enough of, I am constantly talking about what I learned in marketing class and how it relates to us as consumers. I do not want to pursue a career in something in which I do not have any interest for and will not enjoy working in. Marketing has become a passion and something I have learned to love dearly. With marketing you can accomplish a lot, when people hear marketing the first thing that comes to their mind is adversting, this is the reputation marketing has gained in the past years. In reality it is more than just advertising, it is about the consumers, the way they think, the way they react to prices, where a product is placed, how the product is placed, the labels on the product, the way it is manufactured, and how it gets from manufacturer to consumer. Even though MyPlan.com results said I am 60 percent introvert and 40 percent extrovert, I want to be able to fill the extrovert niche in the marketing world. I want to be hands on with the customers, being able to be part of getting the products to the right customers at the right time, right place, and right price. Overall being able to communicate with the customer and understanding their wants is one of the main priorities in marketing. You see marketing is more than just billboards and

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