Larissa Pessoa

I started working when I was young, and during my college years, I've always worked. At first, I worked for 3 years in a mall in food things - I worked in a milkshake store as an attendant. Then I did an internship of 6 months in my field, and after that, I returned to the same company at my first job. They invited me to come back, but this time in their office, so I worked for another year and a half in that company as a financial assistant. I really like to work with numbers, so this was very good for me. I learned a lot in that position. This was during my college years, so it helped me to grow and to know how to manage my time and my responsibilities. I had already moved out from my mother's house and was living with my partner. It was a long journey, but it was very important for my growth and how to deal with being an adult. I did a whole year of international relations before I graduated in social sciences, and in that first year of International Relations, I decided that I didn't want to continue that course but would like to explore more of social sciences. In my first year of social sciences, I discovered that I wanted to keep going in the field of sociology. It was during a presentation I did about Durkheim when a colleague was nodding along while I was explaining the whole idea, and that's when I noticed how fulfilling it would be for me to teach sociology in an academic field. Then I decided that I wanted to become a professor, so now I'm on that journey.