Personal Narrative: My Concrete Work

Throughout high school, I have worked two jobs that have been very different from each other. Both of these jobs pushed me to become a stronger person, and I am thankful for the opportunities they presented me with. My first job was at Richards Family Restaurant where I washed dishes, cooked, and bussed tables. This job experience helped prepare me for college because it put me out of my comfort zone. I had to walk around in a busy restaurant cleaning up tables and helping customers while also coordinating with other employees. In addition to this, I worked under a lot of pressure while cooking and washing dishes. It made me perform at my best while also doing so quickly, and I believe that this experience will help me in college. My second

During the summer, I worked at my aunt's coffee shop. I learned how to work with money and how to deal with customers. I also learned how to keep a business organized, keep inventory, follow step by step procedures, and keep records. Currently I am working as a soccer referee for children ages 3-9.In the summer of ninth grade, I took a course over the summer called waterbotics. In that class, I designed, built, programmed, and learn how to maneuver the robot in water. I had to come up with my own designs and rebuild, and reprogram the robots

The first was a square for our collaborative art project. My mom and I had come up with the idea of a crayon batik quilt several months ago and needed her to make a square so we would have enough to sew together. In order to make this quilt, we first had to peel a bunch of crayons. Next, we had to melt the crayons based on color so all the members interested could paint their fabric squares. Then, we had to soak the squares in Rit dye so they looked like stained glass. The

In 2005, my father bought a Shell Gas Station in Lake Geneva. From the first day, my dad taught me how to count money and work the cash register. I had to stand on a step stool to see over the counter. For the first couple years, I had to work with someone at all times because of the cigarette and alcohol sales and a lot of the customers would tell me there were child labor laws against it but I would just shake my head and say no. I loved being there and working because I was spending time with my dad and the family we built within the business. During the summers, I would get up with my dad at four in the morning to go and open the store. Throughout the years I learned to do more and more and by the age of 10, I knew how to count money, cut

Ever since I was fourteen my dad put me to work. My first job was working at the local Burger King near my house that my family ran. Now working at Burger King wasn’t a joke like most people would have thought. Everyone has to work together as a team to achieve the speed of service goal. I’ve had to learn how to quick and act quickly as well as deal with angry customers and managers.

During the long weekend in September I went camping with Allison Rader in my backyard, but it turned out to be a catastrophe. Around 9pm, we decided to put up a tent on my back deck and camp outside. Allison and I gave it our all to put the tent up for about 40 minutes, but we were baffled at the complex instructions. Finally, we gave up. So,we got my dad to help us put the tent up because of our struggle.

In the past, my experiences with writing have been basic. Other than when I took an advanced English class my junior year of high school, I have taken the common English classes for those of my age. My English course during my senior year of high school was heavily weighted on our ability to write, even though the teacher never taught us how. He expected us to know how to write perfectly, and demolished us when we could not live up to his standards. In a way, this helped me become a stronger writer, but it definitely made me more self-conscious about my writing. With that being said, I would have to go on to say that my biggest weakness as a writer is the fact that I am extremely self-conscious about my writing. I do not like others to read

It was my first time going geese hunting with a shotgun. I was really nervous to going because my uncle and my grandpa are really good at it. They go every weekend and more than half of the time they get their lemont. Also I was very excited to go just growing up going and always watching them going hunting with guns and i always watched. I was getting tired of it. I thought it was time for me to have a gun and on more messing around as much

One aspect of my identity that has shaped my life experience and the way I see the world is my race. I am an African- American who has Nigerian descent from both parents. Growing up African American is hard for many of us, but we always come together to help each other out. We get judged for our skin color, religion, sexuality, and economic status. When I was younger, I always thought about what other people would say about me and how I looked. Even though it was hard seeing how other races portrayed my race, I have learned to embrace my skin color and not let anybody judge me. The society believes that African Americans are lazy, uneducated, and violent. Things people say about me and my race only make me want to prove myself to them that I am proud of my race and would never change myself for anybody.

Identity is what I believe the thing that makes up all human beings. Everybody has an identity, some just aren't as brisk to comprehend what it is or what it means. Identity is generally what someone's traits make up and in my case, I believe I am benevolent, venturesome, and optimistic. Some of the qualities I consider myself to have are not what I would have considered myself to be last year. I believe life lessons that someone undergoes can change their identity and the way they come off drastically.

When I think of the word legacy I think of how I will be remember and what I will leave behind for generations to come. I think of people like Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi, whose impact changes the lives of many and the world as it was known during that time. I don’t think that my impact will be received on such a big scale like Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and many other but hopefully I will be able to touch the people who were close to me during my lifetime.

Think of what you would think of on your final day of life. Sitting in your hospital bed,

Almost every job requires steady focus to get your work done. If you're a copywriter, you have a deadline to meet whether or not you're "in the mood" to write the salesletter. If you're an accountant, you have to make sure all the numbers balance. It doesn't matter if you just had a messy break-up with your significant other. It just has to get done.

I have worked quite few jobs in my short time on this earth I have cut fire wood picked crops made pizzas fixed cars even dug post holes in the New Mexico sun for three months. All those Jobs had ttwo things in common, they got me closer to my dream, and taught me something. The last two jobs on the list taught me the most and help me realize what my dream was and how to achieve it. That’s due to the two men I was with when working those jobs the first being Brian Holman and second Gary Pierson.

They don’t have all the handy-dandy construction equipment that we have here in the states, so everything we did was by hand. We mixed concrete on the pavement and carried materials from the streets to the 2nd floor in an assembly line. It was long, physically demanding work, but there wasn’t a moment that I felt tired or discouraged because I couldn’t do something. All of this taught me that I can truly do anything through Christ who gives me strength. Without him, the amount of work that we did in the three days that we worked wouldn’t have