A Budding Scientist by Emilia Scotson

everyone likes to work for money. But most do work for money at a job that they
like that also helps people.
The first job my mom gave me money for was when I was in kindergarten,
for being well-behaved. Whenever I filled out a chart of 25 well-behaved stickers,
my mom would give me $5. Whenever I misbehaved my mom or nanny would
peel off a sticker. I remember that I would cry every time a sticker got pulled off.
Uncle Charles gives Natalie $5 every time she massages his back. I don't like to
massage people very much, so I don't do it a lot. My mom gives Natalie and I
money for good grades. $2 for ‘A’s, $1 for ‘B’s, -$2 for ‘C’s, grounded for a day
for ‘D’s, and grounded for a week for ‘F’s. I don't like the grounding part and the
negative money part but the rest is good.
From doing work I have learned what work/jobs I like to do and don't like to
do and that most jobs are hard and only a few are easy. You have to deal with the
things you can't avoid and have to do, even if you don't want to or don’t like to do
them, like chores.
When I grow up I want to be a chemical engineer and make new materials. I
want to do this because I love to make things and mix stuff together. The work
setting I would best fit in would be in a big lab/building with lots of materials,
chemicals, and assistants. The assistants would be helping me with all of my
experiments and tests. To be able to do all this I will need to train/study in:
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