Irelis Rodriguez

My career field of interest is becoming an author, to be an author wasn't on my mind until one day during upcoming freshman year in high school, I had a dream of writing stories and fell in love with writing my thoughts and sharing my stories ideas across the world, not only that but to engaging the readers and audiences to explore the adventure with the fictional character from the stories I made and make reading an habit for some people who loves reading or hates reading but want something more than words in the stories, like true meaning of life lessons or adventure in my stories. Not only for them but for myself, having a huge goal in my life to become an author gives me somewhat of a purpose in life to continue with my writing career journey and continue to keep pushing myself to the limit but not too much to the point I overdo it and burnout during the process but to keep myself on track on what the future holds on for me.

During my experiences of becoming an author, was a really fun and hard experience, having a lot of extracurricular activities based on my interests like NANOWRIMO participation awards and the scholastic art and writing participation competition awards, all of those contributed to my writing career, I started all of this through the beginning of my freshman year. But the more I learned about writing, the more I realized that I was born to be an author when I was little, and as a teenager, I had a good imagination and wrote a lot of stories in language arts class but didn't know it was my full passion until the beginning of my freshman year in high school and that's saved me from uncertainty on what I want to do right after high school. The dream I had changed me and the future of what holds me, I did everything I could do to keep myself busy with my writing career, and my writing career gave me a reason to keep going in life because those are the reasons why I want to achieve so much in life when it comes to my writing career. At present, I will look back on how far I accomplished in my writing career and be proud of myself for what I have done so far and what I can do to keep myself forward on the right track to becoming a successful author, not only for me but for the readers and audience. It's okay to fail, but it's never okay to fall back and give up, always follow your heart, mind, and dreams to become a successful person in life, keeping going and moving forward, in the end, everything will pay off from your hard work no matter what and you will look back on your struggles and tell yourself that you did everything you could do to accomplish your goals, dreams, and purpose.

The only thing that keeps me going is my writing career I excel academically and pursue my writing career through academic achievement including extracurricular activities. I am not doing this for others cause again my mom and my family don't see my achievement that I am proud of which is why I am doing this for myself. My writing career and academic including extracurricular activities give me a purpose in life that I have been trying to search for because my trauma in the past left me with no purpose in life and if I didn't have that purpose right now, I would end my life because that traumatic experience makes me feel like I was nothing, the only thing that keeps me alive and looking forward into life was my writing career, that saved my life, made my academic and extracurricular activities seem worth of getting to try it out and it was successful. And of course, I understand that life can be hard for some people but being traumatized from experience makes me feel like I wasn't enough and I don't want to be defined as numbers on the data as a person who went to mental health issues, instead, it could be used as a way to cope things like writing which is a good thing, I don't want to overlook at or be a negative spotlight in life, I want to use those into an good advantage instead of using it as an bad example.

After four years of doing creative writing/literature, I want to do business career with being business management/business administration in graduate school.

In the summer program,I am doing Acadium for startup business course for two years with Apprenticeship and two years of
SCORE business mentorship program with my
mentor to begin an writing business career as a aspiring writer/self published author, building my writing community and trying to gain more audience in the community for writers and readers to share their love for the imagination and creative with writing and literature with workshops, clubs, camps, internship, mentorship and more as an community by networking on Linkedln, Pen America mentorship program for prisoners and fellowship for more resources for writers to gain more experience with editors, agents, publishers and etc.

I want to build my own writing businesses career for an community full of authors or writer who wants to growth into their journey of writing their stories to share with the world around us.

Reading, writing, researching,, and studying.