The biggest risk I have ever taken

 The Biggest risk I have taken

       Human beings have been always looking for what makes their lives better. Some of them would change their jobs in order to get better incomes while others would start a business to make money in order to obtain better futures. Furthermore, some others would migrate and leave homes and families in order to have a decent life, or just to fulfill desires that they have had for a long time. All those things, which people would do to make their lives better, are called risks. Risks have consequences, and they might be a positive or negative. Taking a risk has never been something easy, yet it is something we need to think about before we take it, and we ought to address the reasons and make sure that any risk is valuable. I took an enormous risk when I decided to resigned my job then come to the U.S. Before I made my decision, I had determined the risk, the reasons, and whether the risk is worth taking it or not.

      In the first place, I had gotten a diploma degree in 2008, and then I got a job in a good position and a very good monthly income. When I got hired, my job was a health inspector, and then I got a promotion after my first year there to be the supervisor of the health inspection department. Therefore, more than eighty four employees were working under me in that department, and most of them were older than me. Even more, I have invented forms and came up with ideas that are still used by the department. Even though I had all these features and success in my previous job, I was not fully satisfied about myself, and an associate degree was not enough for me, and I needed more. Thus, I started preparing myself while I was working. I applied for school admission, and then applied for a visa. After I had all those done, I packed my luggage then purchased my plan ticket. After all, I took the eight days I had in my vacation balance, and then flew to the U.S. with a hope of getting a scholarship. As soon as these eight days passed, I got the scholarship and then I resigned from my job by e-mail. If I had not obtained the scholarship, I would have been unemployed now. Additionally, the only negative probabilities that I imagined were a failure, and then return to home without achieving anything.

       I have been asking myself, and I have been asked by others what were my reasons for doing what I did. Seeking and looking for the knowledge were my main reasons to take that risk, as well as my ambition to get another degree. Another reason, I believe that seeking knowledge and education has no age or limits. It begins from the day of birth and ends the day of death. Moreover, my parents want me to have at least a bachelor's degree and encouraged me, and they still encourage me to achieve my goals. In addition, my sister, who has a master's degree, has been always encouraging me as well as my other sister, who has just gotten her bachelor's degree. All those reasons pushed me to make my decision and risk my job.

       From time to time, I ask myself if what I am doing now has a valuable or it is a worthless. Because I am always positive and optimistic, I say indeed it is a valuable risk. My friends always tell me that if I had kept my job, I would not have been thinking of school and homework now, and I would have been working and making money. What makes me think that it is worth it is what I will be in the future; I will have a terrific job; for instance, working in a hospital laboratory or starting my own business as a laboratory technologist. I will be a person that I have been always dreaming to be. Also, I am from a culture where somebody's accomplishment is everybody's accomplishment, so that makes this risk worth a lot because it is going to make everybody around me happy and proud of me. Last but not least, my family who is my inspiration and who always wants me to have the best, makes that risk worth more than anything else, and motivated me to attain my goals. In other words, I sacrificed my job and took that risk just for me, but also for the happiness and pride of my family.

       In a word, everybody has the desire to be the best, and that sometimes can be

 achieved by taking risks. Before taking any risk, the effects and purposes from that 

risk should be known and addressed. Although the risk might have negative effects, 

we might want to ignore them and go for it; similarly, think of what and how lives will 

look like in the future. My risk was mountainous and has both effects. Working hard 

will make the probability of getting negative effects is declining. Also, by being 

positive helped me to overcome them, and looked for the bright side of it. Taking risks 

teaches lessons. My father asked me one time if I had ever felt lonely here my answer 

was yes, so he said what he always says,” who looks for the best in his life has to 

work hard to get it because nothing comes easily. However, who wants to be lazy 

does not need to do anything but sleeping.” I have learned from my risk that in order 

to achieve what we are looking for, we need to challenge ourselves, but at the same 

time to be careful so that we get the result we wanted. Finally, for the sake of achieving 

your goals, be brief and take the risks that will help us achieve them.