Is It Was Time For Your Life?

Early last summer, I was on my way to becoming a high school senior. This was one of the most exciting transitions of my high school career. My best friend Modolyne and I always told ourselves senior year must be epic, I mean it’s our last year, right? So, this meant we were participating in all school activities - which wasn’t free. My senior year spending was well over a thousand dollars. Together, we decided to apply to a local Chick-fil-A in hopes of getting a job. I felt anxious towards applying, I’ve never been on a register before and I feared being rejected. Days past after applying and I grew sad. The self-fulfilling prophecy of me not landing the job was slowly echoing in my mind day after day. I woke up one gloomy morning, telling myself to forget about

Over the summer I had gotten a job , as most high school students do.The fine establishment that had hired me was Lowe's.This job had everything I wanted for the summer, great hours which worked around me and summer school. And payed more than the minimum wage most jobs were offering. So why did I need a summer job well unlike most teens it wasn't because my parents told me to so that i learn how to manage money or even to get some new fresh set of rims or even a radio with the flashing LED lights. I needed the job to put food on the table pay the home bills and keep us from calling a place where we call home. The money needs our home had were tall and wide, My mother had lost her job working at a retail store, my older just came home from

After working at McDonalds for three weeks, I began to make new friends and was glad that I didn’t decide to quit my job. I enjoyed that I could earn my own money and didn’t have to ask my mother for money anymore. Work had been great after the first customer incident happened. I had not received any customer complaints and my manager said that I might employee of the

During the summer after ninth grade, I worked at my father’s company, AAE, located in Livonia. There I took leadership in starting a new project. In 2011, my father’s business received 8A certification. Which is given to a select few small businesses certifying them to receive and complete government contracts. In summer of 2015, the company received the largest order it had ever seen. It was a 3-year contract for 5 million lanyards. My father had the choice to sub-contract the order to another company, but this would result in decreased profit. I encouraged my father to complete the order in house because this would nearly double profit. While my father and other employees completed the technical and procedural

The requirements for the work release program in high school, were that you had to have a job that you got at least 15-20 hours of work a week. You had to have a job within two weeks into the class in order to be able to stay. I was having a very hard time finding a job, but luckily one of the girls in my class told me that her job, Texas Roadhouse, was hiring. I will never forget my interview, I was so nervous and wearing dress clothes that were three sizes too big, but I got the job as a bus boy. After about two months, most of the senior bus staff had left, so management asked if I would become their trainer. I quickly moved into other positions while I was under 18 including hosting and togo’s. Once I turned 18, I was able to move up to server, but I also still remained the bus trainer. About five years into my job at Texas Roadhouse, I became Training Coordinator where I really started to expand my career. I began doing openings around the country, participated in their training competitions making it to the top 20 in the company two times and made it to the top 3 the final time. I really enjoyed to corporate structure that Texas Roadhouse gave me. I

I graduated high school back in 1994. I was engaged to be married in just two years, and even though I joined the Pennsylvania Air National Guard right after graduation it was only one weekend a month and two weeks out of the year. So I needed a full-time job. A friend of the family knew a guy who was opening a second store, and was going to need a store manager. I took the job and got started. What I didn’t know was the guy I was just hired to work for was a little confused as to what he wanted. I hung onto the job for a little over a year hoping it would turn around but, no dice.

I was grateful to obtain a higher paying job and I signed a lease for my off-campus apartment, and with those new responsibilities tied into everything I had to do for summer school it took a tole on my stress level and sleep. I was granted the higher paying job before spring semester finally ended, and I really did need that job to help me with providing for myself. My mother is on disability and she cannot help me as much as she wants to with the things that I need, and I would rather provide for myself so that I would not be a burden to her or anyone else. With this in mind, my new job was set in place to help me pay for food, rent, and other necessities during the summer months until school started again. My job called for a lot of extra attention with what I had to do for the job, so it was like taking on another class, and that is where the stress kicked in. I wanted to put my best foot forward with everything that I had set up for myself, which meant that I did not intend to put education on the waist side and I tried not to push myself too hard with my job. It seemed like that plan was able to be accomplished, but at the end everything just became too

Even the library was not open, so my mom suggested that I get a job. I decided to send my resume and fill out applications to the stores and restaurants of Fort McMurray. The first time I got an interview was in McDonalds and at first, it was an intimidating task to accomplish, especially when I have never experienced this before, but I thought that I had done a decent job on my interview. Unfortunately, I did not get the call. I assumed that I did not get the job. Then, I got an interview in Sobeys and this time, I used the knowledge from my last interview and applied it to this interview. I felt a bit more confident in this interview but again, they did not notify me about the job. After the second time, I started to doubt that I would be able to get a job for the summer. I was worried that no one would hire me. Finally, I got a call from Tim Horton’s for an interview. I was sure I would get the job. The manager informed me about the job. After the interview, they called me for training. I learned the basics about serving meals to the consumers. When I finished my training, they hired

I looked for jobs all around Fresno and Clovis, I applied with PG&E, Pepsi, DMV and I even contemplated joining the Navy, this went on for six months if not longer. One day I was looking at a sports website called realgm.com (it 's a news feed site for all baseball, football, basketball, soccer and hockey) and I saw an ad on the side of the page advertising jobs with Kraft Foods. I clicked on the link and it took me to an unavailable job but there were other jobs available in Fresno so I decided to apply. After submitting my resume, I received an email asking me to call and schedule my interview with the Human Resource department the next day.

On July 8, 2015 I walk into Krogers like I would any other day but this day I was an employee. Lost for words around the unfamiliar faces that I would now see five days a week had me a little nervous. I walk up to someone and ask them “where is Ally?” and when I say her name I see her shoot her head full of blonde poofy hair from over the registers as she grabs a pop from the cooler by U-scan and I hear the cooler doors slam. The super cute boy who is tall, tan and muscular with short light brown hair with chubby cheeks and a bright white smile that I seen at orientation walks up and says he is being trained by Ally too and I feel slight butterflies in my stomach. As we walk back into the back dock we run into Cody with dark brown hair and tan skin and the cute boy goes off with him to be trained and I was disappointed. I knew Ally before I got hired on at Krogers through a mutual friend so conversation came easy and work so far wasn’t that bad. Now that I have seen every part of Krogers that I haven’t seen before it’s time to learn the hard stuff. We go out on carts and I am begging to go in cause little do I know that it is a 30 minute shift and there is no 5 minutes and go in. Then Ally goes on break and I’m all alone to learn how to beg by myself, which isn’t hard at all but when you’re thrown out there it’s scary.

Before the summer of 2015, I made the decision to financially support my family as best as I could. My sophomore year of high school was coming to an end and the Orange County Fair was just around the corner. I applied to Juicys LLC, one of the most popular food stands at the fair, without any experience hoping I would get hired. A few days after applying, I received a phone call explaining the time and place for the orientation, I was ecstatic. The orientation room was filled with talk and laughter of high school and college students. I saw familiar faces and my nerves were eased at the sight that I was not going to be alone. My first day at Juicys LLC was a complete rush. It began with the entrance to the fair, overwhelming and crowded. When

I’ve have been a working student since I was twelve years old, I have done all sorts of jobs from being a lifeguard, to being a store clerk. I have been a caretaker for my family, and for local neighbors, and teachers in our community. I also was a trap worker, and my duties involved me keeping score of shooters scores, calling hits or loses, and cleaning up shooting stations. My freshmen year I applied to be a life guard at Mason Valley Swim Center, and absolutely loved it! I had to be certified in CPR, and become a licensed lifeguard, and know how to swim. I also had to teach swimming lessons, safe lives, clean the pool, the bathroom and showers, work with the cash register, and work with, local law enforcement, and my coworkers to make sure

I absolutely adore my job. It’s far from my home in Massachusetts and it doesn’t pay much, but I really love it. I can only work in the summer because my job is all the way in South Florida, but it’s worth the commute. I am a camp counselor at an equestrian camp and all my campers are the lights of my life. The weather here in Florida isn’t great but it’s mostly manageable. I am the counselor for group “1A” which is the youngest group of kids. I adore my campers, each one is different in their own special way and they each have a unique way of making me smile. I love walking through the glass doors, into the “clubhouse” of the camp. The floors were hardwood and, despite being cleaned every day, usually quite dirty due to the campers. I’d

The main problem was that the school system had given up on me before I had the chance to give up on them. After the hassle I’d presented myself to be in middle school the faculty had decided to put me on work leave as soon as I had started high school. My first day as a freshman I was sent to the guidance counselor’s office and was given a minor’s work permit application. The guidance counselor told me I was going to be put on

The spring of 2017 I came across a great summer job opportunity. My best friend, Hailey McPherson, worked at the Piqua City Pool the summer before. She told me it was a fun job and an easy way to make some money. Going into my junior year, I knew that it was time to save up money for my future. Taking Hailey’s suggestion into consideration, I went to the city building to get an application. Once I got home, I started filling out the application and I was so confused. The paper required so much information that I didn’t know. Finally, I asked my mom for help. When I had everything completed, I had to get three references. I went to all my coaches because they are the people that know me best. Next, I went back