Personal Narrative: My Personal Work Ethic

My moms raised me with a strong set of morals, including “hard work pays off.” Sometimes this can be discouraging when you work hard, but it doesn’t pay off as you’d like it to. I’ve always gotten the grades I strive for without much struggle. However, once high school started, everything changed. I’d work for weeks on a scholarship essay, and I wouldn’t even place. I’d work for months to get something published and then read other people’s names in the congratulations announcement. I’d constantly wonder: Who’s at the top of the class? Who’s going to win the end of year awards? When you consistently get the grades that I do, people just expect those grades. No one congratulates you on your hard work anymore, and you don’t always get recognized. Despite the lack of recognition, I still take pride in my grades, and continue to work hard. Getting great grades is something I know I can do, even when it’s difficult to do. The difficulty makes it even more satisfying when I see the hard work pay off, and I get the grade I wanted. I’ve encountered

I was used to getting A’s. In fact, it never came that hard for me if I listened a bit and didn’t barrel through my work. As did several others in 5th grade. I mean, doing a quarter-page worth of single-digit multiplication problems doesn’t come all hard to anyone if they’ve been gifted, so why work hard when you can just get 100’s without doing your best? This was sort of my mindset in elementary school. And then middle school happened. (Insert bomb-whistle and explosion here.) I started to struggle to keep my grades above B’s, and I was up until midnight doing my homework sometimes. A megaton-weight was dropped on my shoulders as soon as I moved up, or down, if you will, to middle school. I’m Ethan

Education is a very important aspect to many people. For me, getting a well-rounded education will help me reach my lifetime goal of being happy and bringing that happiness to people by helping them. The spark of motivation came in a very unusual way. It happened when taking the mandatory Chemistry class sophomore year of high school. This class was interesting and eye-opening to me because it provided a different look on life. I knew after completing the class that I wanted to pursue a career in the medical and science field. Texas A&M University is my top choice school because I know that attending this school will give me the best education and it will also help me reach my goals in the future.

In the past two years i’ve also been proud to get High Honor Roll all except one quarter. Being on Honor Roll is still prestigious, and any student that applies themselves in school to be able to make Honor Roll definitely deserves praise, however, my family and I expect nothing more than the best out of myself. Even though I have a tough schedule right now, I still feel it is manageable, and getting that one B was something I do regret. I still try to look forward and use that as a motivator to continue excelling in class, because I know that it is not healthy to hold onto the past for too long. By learning from what I do good and bad in class, I am able to get a better understanding of the expectations that my teachers have. No matter what some people think about having hard or bad teachers, in the end

I really try my hardest in school to get the knowledge that I need to prepare me for college and for my future life after college. There are times in school that I really don't like the teacher that I have and would think that they might give me a bad grade just because they don't like me. Then after a couple days when I am on top of my class my attitude towards the teacher changes and so does my grade but don't worry it changes in a good way. There were times where my grade went down quite a bit because i got sick really bad. Even though I was sick I still tried to go to school so I don't get behind in my classes and miss school just from some dumb head ache or stomach pain. When I did get behind I always still caught back up with my work and

See, that’s the hard part. I could begin to explain to you how determined I am to excel in everything that I do, but that’s already noted on other sheets of paper. Instead, do I mention how Disney movies fuel my creativity and are the beacon of my happiness? Even if I were to divulge either of these topics, only the outline of who I am would be shown. Therefore, an understanding must be met, if your attention has not yet been grasped then there is no need to continue reading this. If I fail to acquire your attention now, then how am I supposed to do so in an application highlighted with academic data? The answer is that I cannot, simply because I’m more than grades and scholastic activities. Thus, if your attention is now captivated then I presume you’ve found some area of my personality to be rather interesting. Shall I begin explaining myself in intricate detail with the mere two hundred and thirty-eight words I have

Most people would describe me as quiet and laid-back. I would agree with this statement. However, what people don’t see is what goes on behind the scenes. As a result, I believe that my work ethic is what goes unnoticed in my life. During the first half of high school, I was very self-conscious of my physical health. I would always finish last and tire out first during gym class, and was generally unhappy about my appearance. Many of my friends, who were in sports, questioned why I wasn’t on any of the sports teams. The embarrassing truth was that I was just too out of shape and unathletic. I let a lot of this go to my head, and I started feeling ashamed of myself; sort of an odd feeling considering fitness was never a priority in my life.

I was always the type of kid who would rather study and do homework rather than go out with my friends. All of my friends told me that I took school too seriously and middle school didn’t matter but it did to me. Like a machine, once I started there was no stopping me. My work ethic is strong because I had dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects people with reading, writing and, spelling. My mom has always pushed me to be my best in school. She always told me that my grades do not matter as long as I am giving one hundred percent of my effort. Although to me, the grade did matter. Even though I had extremely excellent grades throughout middle school, I did not think there was any reward for working that hard in middle school.

I would be an outstanding student in Spelman College's faculty classes because I am hard worker. My work has always came first even when I had experienced a big transition in my life I didn't allow that to stop me from doing my work. My work was always a outlet for me to express myself and to show my teachers how I really think. For instance, in my English Composition Class we read a poem called "I Want A Wife by Judy Brady" then we read a book named "Fences by August Wilson", and one day we were in class discussing the poem in the book and it shocked my teacher when I made the connection between the two. I thought my teacher made us read "I want a wife" because in the book "Fences" the main character named Troy expected everything in that

A college education is important to me because it will give me more opportunities to become successful in life. College education will allow me to secure a better job, expand my horizons, and have the career of my choice. A valuable education consist of learning to compose, deliver and most fundamentally important how to absorb in order to achieve my ultimate dream of obtaining a college degree. I always surpass my goals in anything I put my mind to and furthering my education is one of them. College educated individuals make more than people who do not go to college.

When I was 10 years old, I had the fortune of having my mom work in Charlotte. During the summer breaks between school, I would head to work with her and experience what it was like to work in the corporate environment. Honestly, I was amazed by the professionalism and the setting that it was in. So, at the age of 11, I wrote myself a note to myself proclaiming that I will work to someday work in the corporate environment.

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I have learned by doing these questions, that there were some things I need to learn concerning the culture, legal and ethical effects on businesses. I had never even thought about some of the information that was covered through the questions. So, I took on the challenge to try to learn about the information I did not know to see how it implied to my organization. My work ethic has changed since the first week of the course. Leadership went to a whole new level within the last few months because it is not about yourself at all, but being effective, knowledgeable, having integrity, and much more that makes up a true leader.

I didn’t get an A on the next midterm, but that didn’t matter. I had three weeks left to raise my grade, and that day was about my commitment and work ethic. When the semester ended, I managed to get 95% on my third midterm and my final, and overall got a B+. This past fall semester, I aced Chemistry 2 while being in the top 10% of my class. It is from this experience that I had developed a strong appreciation for work ethic and personal commitment to fulfill the challenging tasks in college and later in medical

In life if you rush anything, it seems like you always get a rushed product or at least not the best product that you had hoped for. Change management shouldn’t be a rushed process; however when management feels the need to push this envelope the results may not be what they wanted. I will describe how a change had taken place in my work environment while working in Germany. I will give a brief description of the environment of my work area Geilenkirchen NATO AB Germany. Then move into the reasons that led to the need for change, and what I felt went wrong. Then last take a look at the attempts to fix some of the issues caused from the changes ending with how I would have done things different.