Personal Narrative: My First Job

My first APPE rotation was pediatrics in Cleveland Clinic. Before starting the rotation, I was scared but excited to have experience in Cleveland Clinics, since it is one of the biggest hospitals in the country. I was worried because I had no knowledge about pediatrics. Also, the first day of the rotation was a day after the final, so I was in a rush mode.

Looking back at my first journal entry, I am practically the same. Same house, same family, same school. Thankfully nothing unfortunate has come my way since my first journal entry and no new opportunities that are life changing. I’m quite happy about that because I am in my happiest state. My love for the new knowledge school brings and the experiences from travel are still in tact, even though I don't travel much often because of my dedication to the school. Thankfully I achieved my goal of finishing the semester with all A’s and I strive to be successful in that goal once again this semester. I still enjoy learning new things from others and striving for my best in whatever I put my mind into so I can get the best from it. Whether I can learn a new life lesson or be able to hold on to a good memory, I still cherish the events on my path to my goal.

As teenager, many people say their adolescence is one of the most important phases in anyone’s life. As a teenager, you get to experience many great events like going to high school football games, dating your first boyfriend or girlfriend, getting your driver license, and graduating from high school. As I look back, I believe that getting my first job was the most important event in my adolescence. I was very enthusiastic about getting my first job. I enjoyed that fact that I will be able to earn my own money and not having to ask my mother for any earn. Surprising, there was only one obstacle that was holding me back and that was the fact that I was a

My Resume doesn’t stray from the classic style of resumes to much at least not the first two portions of the resume. Once we get to the bottom of my resume I split my skills into two columns so I could use as much space as possible to define me as a hard working with plenty of experience in design, writing, and communication specifically.

Leaving school meant that I had to go look for a job to support myself. Finding a job was easy than most people made it sounded to be as I acquired a job in less than three days at a temp agency. Never in my life have I ever had a real job this was my first job, but I did have experience working with my dad on fixing houses. The job was an assembly company where they build lawnmowers; the management that I was placed under was a nightmare, laziest boss in the world. Shortly after gaining experience I was promoted to a lead operator, a small manager, this was the first time that I was over twenty people who were all older than me. The company was quite terrifying as people were getting laid off and production was slow. At one point there were

When I applied for C.R. England I was not sure that I would be accepted to go through the program. Three days later I received a phone call from a Recruiter at C.R. England and while on the phone we went over all the information before setting a time and a date for leaving for Salt Lake City, Utah. When the day came to leave for Salt Lake City, Utah my parents took me to the Greyhound terminal to prepare to leave. Thirty minutes later we boarded the bus to leave our first stop was in Missouri I stayed on the same bus and from there I went to Kansas where I had to switch buses but I had to wait one hour before the other bus got there after boarding the bus for going to the next stop I was in Colorado where I had to wait two hours and thirty minutes before boarding my next bus to Wyoming once I got to Wyoming the next bus was ready and it had no air conditioner that I remember so the last bit of traveling was so warm that everyone on it was hot even a eight month old baby everyone tried their best to help the mother out to make

My second job was a cashier at a local drug store. My daily duties included organizing and stocking shelves, providing excellent customer service, and checking out customers. The environment was incredibly nonchalant and the stress level was extremely low. Although many of my peers enjoy effortless employment, the lack of duties disturbed me. I worked the last shift almost every weekend night and was plagued with boredom. There were numerous occasions when I would pick a magazine off the shelf and read it because of the shortage of customer traffic. The job became a waste of time and ability.

As I was about to transfer $150 from my first paycheck to my mom’s account, I began to think about what I have been through the past five months. Ever since I came to America, I had been wanting to reduce my guilt of using my family’s saving. I posted job requests and applied to different stores but only received junk mails; I went to McDonald’s ask for seeing the manager several times, when I finally saw her, she promised to call me back but I had never heard from her. However, the more jobs I tried to apply to, the more I realized I am responsible of making decision myself and the more skill I developed on writing a resume. One day, I received an email from a local Taiwanese restaurant saying that they would be glad to interview me. Surprisingly,

Well, the first day came and I could barely sleep the night before. I put on my new outfit, grabbed my new bookbag and sprinted out the door; but not before my mom took a million pictures of me. The bus ride was tense for me. I sat there and went over my schedule to keep my mind from wandering and thinking about the what

Furthermore, I start the first memo among three that cover the introduction and an instruction how to view the video. However, I help the team by sending this first memo with the video script that is created by Elaine to Dr. Meredith Singleton. For the conducting process of the usability test, our goal is to find at least ten people to this test. I have asked many of my friends to help me out. Unfortunately, I can get only two people while one is my friend, Matt Brehm, and the other one is my brother, Tong Ngann. This might be because of the final week of the semester that everyone has a lot of work to be done. For the usability testing report, I join Michael and Elaine to complete this work. I work on the methodology section and participants

I remember my first day of summer school at St. Paul like it was yesterday. It was warm day in July and I was telling my dad how nervous I was going to high school for the first time. He was telling me ill be fine and to not stress so much. I came in a little timid but as the day progressed, i met people and talked to teachers and soon I became confident in my new surroundings. This incident can be applied to my whole high school experience.

Life has pushed her put of her comfort zone. After graduating high school, she moved to another state completely alone. There was a time to become self-reliance, to become independent. This is an example of recentering( Professor T. Rondinone, personal communication, April, 2017). Grace found full time job at the post office as a dispatcher. “For the first time I felt wanted. People started acknowledging me. I realized that I can be good at something.” However, the job was making her feel good about herself, she still wanted something more. She was craving for close intimate relation with that special man, who can love her and in return she can love him. She had such a strong need for meaningful, profound bounding with that romantic partner,

My first real job was working for my dad on the farm. I started when I was 12, and I wasn’t getting a salary but he said he would help for my college if I helped him during the summers. I would work almost every day of the week with my dad on the farm doing everything that he told me to do. The work was very hard and I couldn’t do all of it on my own so I would get frustrated a lot. I could have just quit but the thing is I want to take over the farm when I grow old, so my motivation was to learn from everything that I had to do. Not getting paid was a little frustrating to, epically when my uncle had a stroke and my dad and I had to keep his farming running as well. We were doing double the work that we were doing before, and we were not getting

When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to get a job. Sure, it would be a good way to make friends and learn how to prepare myself for the real world, but for me, it was mostly about making my own money. Having to ask my parents for cash every time I needed some annoyed me, mostly because they’d always say no. Every time they did, I would always whine and complain about how different things would be when I had money of my own, how I would never ask them for anything, and so on. This wasn’t entirely true, but at the time it seemed like a smart thing to say. I must’ve applied to dozens of jobs, and when I finally got the email telling

I remember when I started my first corporate job. Now I’ve been thru countless jobs before, but this one was a huge blessing. The job was Pratt & Whitney and they manufactured airplane parts for the military and other air crafting companies. Cool right? Try to imagine a young teenager walking in this huge corporation on his first day full of grown men and women who are in their late 20’s and above. The feeling was very overwhelming. As a temp my job was to polish air plane parts. Now when I say polish I don’t mean polish, as in wipe the floor with a towel till it sparkles in the light. I mean you hold a tool-gun with a sandpaper wheel and you polish a spinning part. It was very neurotic for my first experience on the job. Though as a temp this is what you’ve signed on to do. As unbarring as it seemed, I had to cope with it and try to master this new chapter in my life.