What else am I missing?

Okay, all those others. Those too, those are useful degrees

I had a degree in history literature

which is a great degree too

but there's some of the least practical majors and I combined them

And it's not that I didn't ideas about what to do after graduating, I had too many

I thought about taking the foreign service exam

about spending life as a diplomat

I even thought about medical school and how I could save people

but then I also thought about waiting tables

and maybe opening a cupcake shop

but in the meantime, I needed into my life intervened

I became practical

I needed money after graduation

And my parents were not going to pay my way anymore

I stopped worrying about getting the right job

and I focused on just getting a job

And although it's quite difficult at the time, I need to thank my parents

for forcing me out into the workforce

My mom and dad are here today

So thank you, mom and dad

for making me get up, get out and do something

With programming under my belt

I found work for a small educational startup in Palo Alto

and I discovered that technology was creative

I could build things for people all over the world

It was a start of a journey that has led me to incredible places

But it was never my plan

So maybe one thing more to try to remember

is plans are made to be broken