Personal Narrative: My Welding Career

Thinking back as a freshman in high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do in life. Throughout my years in school I have discovered enjoyment in fusing metal together. I feel passionate about being able to do something that takes skill. I am going to attend a trade school so I can pursue a career in welding. I am finishing this last year in so I can finally be able to do something of worth. I didn’t have plans for college I was just going to go work where ever I could find a job. Since I have talked to one of my teachers I have change my decision. Mr. James taught at my school I didn’t really know what he did but he helped me figure out a goal and how to achieve it. He has inspired me to want more in life so I can be successful. My

During fall 2015 I worked full time in construction. I took 4 classes, 2 at Metropolitan State University of Denver, 1 at Front Range CC Boulder & 1 at Front Range CC Westminster. I would drive from Westminster to Denver, then from Denver to Longmont. I could not handle the load. I tried to save all my classes but only saved two. Between work, traffic, and school, I set myself up for disaster and failed. I dropped the class`s last minute.

Everyone has their first memory when they have to enter the adult world, mine just happened to be my junior year of high school. This year was just a little glimpse of what was going to be the rest of my life. Getting my first job was bitter sweet. I had to learn how to manage my time between school, sports, and now a job. After my first week of school I had to start my new job.

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

It sounds cliché saying, “Hindsight is always 20/20”, but it’s how I describe the experience pursuing my degree in code welding at ACC. If I had started this process twenty years ago, my circumstances would be very different. Maybe, in retrospect, it just took me twenty years to muster up the courage and obtain the grit required to take on such an endeavor. I can remember as a young girl peeking around the corner of my grandfather’s garage to stare into the glow of the arc as he welded. I was quickly shooed away, told to go back to the house.

In the future I plan on making welding my career. My freshman year I was in intro to Agriculture. The teacher had taught me the basics of welding. That's when I decided I wanted to learn more about welding and make it my career.

I Remember my freshman year like it was just yesterday, I wanted to be a welder just like my dad. I even went through all of Ms.Negal steps for success class finding all the information about a welding career and what it would take to become a welder, but I was also looking at career in business to I just wasn’t saving anything like the welding career. After my freshman year, my parents got separated. I decided to live with my mom. That was my first big step of not being like my dad. My next year of high school I didn’t really focus on any career in specific it was a debating period of what I want to become. When February finally rolled around I decided to sign up for a few classes in the business department instead of industrially tech classes.

Looking back to the WODs something that I would like to change would be be doing them correctly, as during most of the WODs I was not able to do them correctly. In the future I would like to complete all my exercises correctly with our any mistake, as during WOD#2 I did not complete the rest for 60 seconds, as I was not that tired. For the mile I walked for 17 minutes as it was really hot, and i did not want to get tired easily, so I decided to walk. However in the future, I would like to run for 1 round, jog for another, and sprint for the last. So if i do the math I would be able to run one round for a 1 minute, jog for 1:30, so if we did 8 rounds it would take me around 9 minutes to complete the mile, which is really good for me, as my

My first example of one of my peices of work is my Garage Sale flyer. I choes this as one of my examples because it demonstates my understandings of our unit all about creating flyers,business cards etc… The strongest aspects of this peice of work is the way I have all the information needed in an organized way. It does not look super cluttered. I think i could always work on something with any peice of work i do. With this peice i think i could work on my spelling and puncuation. Some of the skills i use to create this peice were; Change the backround, Bordes and accents, Text and

This semester I feel I have grown more as an academic student and as a global citizen. I feel that our Job shadow project helped me be a better Academic student, and that the Malala field trip my school went to helped me become a Global Citizen.These two things have helped me become a better student in their own ways.

Things started to get serious with my girlfriend and I. December 25, 2008 I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. Wedding Planning went quick and we were married on March 23 of the following year. One month later we got some exciting news. We were having a baby. Financial pressure started to settle upon us and out of sheer desperation I Joined the United States Air Force. I was sent to boot camp for 8 weeks and that is when I found out what I was going to be doing as far as a job. I was selected to become a heavy equipment operator. After basic training I went to Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri for 12 weeks to learn the basics of operating heavy equipment. Once I completed all of my training I was reunited with my wife and child and we

I'm currently a tier 2 help desk technician at Old Dominion Freight Line. In this role, I spend most of my time working with other teams resolving issues that cannot be resolved during the first call. I also spend a lot of my time, directly and indirectly, mentoring our tier 1 techs to increase overall first call resolution. I've highly enjoyed my career at Old Dominion so far and it has taught me lessons that I will take well into my career.

Finally, I had completed my one year, two semesters, and 1,100 hours of the program and successfully received my certification in automotive technology. I learned a lot in a short amount of time, in many different parts of automobiles. I also made some great memories along with some amazing friends along my way. I achieved my certification and enjoyed the ride along the way. In other words, even when you think you cannot achieve anything, or too scared to go for it, fear of failing is natural and you should just go for it because you never know what you ca achieve until you try, you might even surprise yourself as I was in

Growing up in a country where educational preferences were given to boys, my father went against the society norms and encouraged me to get higher education. Along with his guidance and my thirst for knowledge I was accepted in engineering program. I was happily pursuing my degree, when suddenly all this came to halt; my father was seriously ill. He wanted me to get married before he leaves this world. Few weeks later, I met my husband, who at the time was visiting Pakistan for his cousin’s wedding and within months I was married. I came to United States with a hope of better future and dreams of finishing my education, but was unable to do so as I was expecting our first child and had no one to help us with the baby. I dedicated myself to raise our daughter, but deep down that feeling of emptiness lingered. Life kept moving forward, we moved a few times, gradually I started to adapt to being a stay home mother of two beautiful girls. Numerous times I brought home admission forms from CCBC but started to doubt myself if I was going to be able to do restart after such a big gap? I started volunteering at my daughter’s school and was soon hired as a teacher’s helper to assist with children with special needs. While working at school, I was again in an environment that reminded and encouraged me to fulfill my lost dreams. In 2012, I enrolled at CCBC with no career path in mind: I just wanted start again! Once I started I never looked back and I will continue to thrive.

My current boyfriend, Dylan Mainor encouraged me to look into mechanics, for he used to be a mechanic himself. I helped him with a few projects, which is when I learned that I have a passion for working on vehicles. The first time I helped him was when he needed help taking a transmission out of a lifted Ford Super Duty. It was a messy job, draining out the coolant and afterwards removing the transmission. Some of the situations that existed that related to my SAE were some of the problems I have experienced with my own vehicle, and how I fixed them. When I first got my vehicle, the oil cooler lines were leaking coolant; however, I didn't know what was leaking until I crawled under there to check it. I changed them myself, gaining more experience.