I have asked both.

T said she was always the go to person when people needed somebody to talk to. Everybody said she was good at it and she enjoyed it. So she figured she mine as well get paid for it.

EMDR T thoght early on she wanted to become a therapist. She wasn't sure so rather than spending all the money on grad school she became a camp counselor for a couple of years. It is during that time she realized it was what she enjoyed doing