Personal_Inspiration_Narrative

__**My Personal Inspiration Narrative:**__

After taking a look at Sherry Turkle’s book “Falling for Science”, we get a larger sense of how individuals’ react towards new developments or discoveries of technology. We not only get overflow of ideas in our heads, but it helps to make us think in ways that interest us. We automatically start to brainstorm and think of all the possibilities of what the object is about, how it works and the way it is manufactured. As Sherry Turkle mentions that this enlightenment at an adolescent age helps to bring creativity and wonder into the child’s imagination, even resulting in development of their career.

As a child, I was very interested in mechanics and automobiles as my father is a real handyman. I would be always on his side when he would be replacing or fixing something on his cars. It eventually got to the point that he then started to let me do minor tasks so that I could actually get a feel for it myself. Ever since that point in my life, cars have been my passion, I would collect and have the largest collections of Hot-Wheels cars which varied in models, colours and sizes. I had the ultimate collection and felt like I was on top of the world since I had collected large quantities of cars which was what I was really passionate about. I still remember to this day, the day that completely changed my life about toy cars was on my 6th birthday when my parents had thrown me a party and it was time to open all the gifts. When I received the gift from my parents it was a large box thinking it would be clothes or something lame. I quickly ripped the wrapping paper off to see what it was; it was a Tyco RC Jacknife Turbo remote control car! I was astonished and speechless that I got this gift; some may even say that I was in disbelief as it was every little boys dream. In my head, I thought to myself that there was an electric version of my favourite passion, where I could control and operate it with a simple remote and that I didn’t need to push it around with my hands anymore. I thought of it as the greatest invention as it made my life so easy. At this point in time, the love for my Hot-Wheels toy cars turned into lust for my remote control car as I would never want anything better than this for my age. I could not stop thinking about this new toy of mine I was attached to it, in my sleep, when eating or even when in class I would be thinking how much entertainment it brings to me and how technology has made it possible to control the car with a matter of pushing and adjusting switches on a remote. Allowing it to go forward, backwards, spin in circles, crash into objects, drive it off road, as well as carry, haul and transport goods with it, it was a dream come true. It eventually got to the point where I was curious to know how it this machine worked and operated, so I sat down with my dad and we carefully opened it up and looked at the way it was manufactured and assembled together. It was full of electronic circuit boards, wires and switches which I have never seen in a Hot-Wheels model car, which further enhanced my curiosity of how it operated. Knowing and learning how the car was assembled together, I wanted to disassemble and assemble it back together, in addition to making modifications to make it better, faster and look nicer than it originally came. This car became my world, it would be the first thing I would look at in the morning, play on my spare time and the last thing before I went to bed as it had completed me. My parents started to wonder if this was the right thing that they had gotten for me since I was attached to it; they believed that I had taken a special bond to this new technological innovated toy, they had never seen me have such a large attachment to my Hot-Wheels in the past.

Moving on forward in my life my interest for automotive and mechanics still remained even till the day when I got my first job. When I was looking for job as a teen I was quite picky at what I wanted to do and only what I enjoyed, even though I’ve had no prior experiences. My first job was working at an automotive parts store at Canadian Tire where I would serve car parts based on the need to the customer. Eventually I then became an apprentice mechanic where I was in the shop working on cars changing oil and tires. This goes back to Sherry Turkle’s idea where she mentions that how the creativity, wonder and prescience at such a young age is a contributor to the development of career choices in the future, even though I haven’t started my career or have made any choices yet, Sherry Turkle’s idea regarding career choices has clearly been proven correct in my situation.

Turkle, S. (May 2008). Falling for Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
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