Education and Goals to Improve Economy I established my first small company twenty years ago, a private math tutoring company. When I moved to the United States of America in 2010 from my home country Brazil, I sold my company and found a job in the cleaning services field. A few years later, I founded a small family cleaning business from scratch, planning and managing all aspects of my small company, which include services, business development, and marketing. Since then, I am trying to balance work with my personal life, as I am a single mother who works hard during the day and goes to college at night to get new opportunities in life for me and my child. I started undergraduate education in 2018 as part-time student, but today I am on my third year of college as a full-time student. This way, I am very pleased with myself for being on the path to accomplishing my academic plan. In addition, I choose finance as my field of study because I love math and investments. My passion for math started in kindergarten, and by middle school I had in mind that I wanted to work in the banking industry. As today, my childhood dream has not changed, it is just grown bigger. Most important, the major I chose to build a career on connects with my short- and long-term goals. In fact, my shot-term career goals are to find a new job and learn a new skill set to gain more knowledge and experience in the financial field. I would also like to improve my leadership performance standard, be fluent in the Spanish language as today I only know the basics, and pursue a financial services credentials such as Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Along these lines, my long-term career goals are to become a financial advisor and get my Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, strengthen my leadership networking skills, and learn a new language: French. Finally, I want to reach a brighter future for myself and my family. To do so, I need to fulfill higher education and training requirements while developing knowledge and skills set to enhance both business and economic growth. At the same time, I intend to use my education to make a difference in the world and/or in the workforce by positively influencing people about the importance of investing and saving, using my leadership skills to improve a collaborative workgroup as to build strategies together and get different opinions, and performing tasks efficiently to expand the productivity of the economy. In this way, my education will bring many benefits to the workplace and economy overall, as it will support economic competitiveness and profitability worldwide.