Personal Narrative: When I Got My First Job

Never in my life did I see my first summer job being a janitor. I had to wake up at 4 am every Friday. Then returned at 8 pm to a restless night. I would leave my house in cargo shorts and the company t-shirt. Then my hands would be equipped with rubbery yellow gloves, like the ones old people used to wash dishes. It was this job that showed me my greatest talent.

Having my first genuine job was a big change for me, coming into an environment with people a lot older than me. It was frightening at first; I was a tad intimidated to be frank. nevertheless I took this opportunity to every advantage I could acquire. I have many responsibilities, those include:

My first job shadow that I was given was at Hartford City Police Department. I was very hesitant at first not knowing what was going to take place during these three weeks. I mean I did kind

Today I am going to talk about when I was born and where I was born. Where I fit in with my family. I will also talk about my first words, what my favorite song was when I was a baby.

In my opinion, my first week at my coop placement at Deverett Law Offices was a good week. On Monday, I was really nervous because it was my first day and I didn’t know what to expect, but I was also very excited because I knew that this placement would be a great learning experience for me. On my first day, I arrived about 10 minutes early because I wanted to make sure that I wasn't late. However, the doors to the law office was locked and I didn't know what to do. This made me feel extremely anxious and I felt like I was the “new kid on the block”. I thought that all the other employees at the law firm somehow knew how to bypass this uncomfortable situation and unlock the door. I rang the doorbell, but there was no answer. As a result, I

Before my grade 12 year, I started a job at a drug store working as a front store cashier. Because the store is constantly getting new programs and new machines that all cashiers must be familiar with, I constantly receive training where I am learning new skills and techniques. I have learned to be adaptive and developed into a very quick learner. The most important aspect of being a cashier is the ability to interact with the customers offer assistance where it is needed. As a Pharmacist, they work directly with patients and clients, working hard to provide effective care. Through my

On my first day of job shadowing I was entirely unsure what I was going to experience and was anxious for the day ahead. This first day consisted largely of my mentor going over the basics of her job, which was completely different from what I originally thought it was. She was quick to tell me that while she does work a lot with animals, she communicates with the owners often to discuss how to properly train their dogs, and to explain why she grooms the dogs the way she does. She also demonstrated to me how teach dogs to perform a variety of behaviors as pictured to the right. My mentor also taught me some of the basics of dog grooming. We discussed how to communicate with clients, how to blow dry a dog, and how to brush a dog. In the image to the right she is demonstrating to me how to brush a dog and how different types of brushes work to remove matts. We often discussed how grooming dogs can improve their

I am the first in my family to go to college. i am a middle child of five other children. two older sisters, an older brother and both a younger brother and a sister. growing up school wasnt always important to me. as i got older and had already really struggled through my first two years of high school i relized i was just being lazy and i knew i needed to pull myself together and focus on things that were really important and crucial for my future. junior and senior year i worked hard and brought my grades and GPA back up. throughout the prosses of refocussing myself i relized i had a love for helping people. i decided that i wanted to teach but wasnt sure what exactly i wanted to teach. i started volunteering a large amount

I remember my first day at Excelsis Root Canal Specialties. I was beyond scared and nervous. This job was my first full time position I have had. To be honest I, never really pictured myself working in the dental field. I was terrified of the dentist as a child. At that time, I was a newly divorced single mother of two who had just moved back home with her parents. I was going through a rough patch and needed a job to survive. I started searching online and applied everywhere. I remember getting the phone call from the office manager for my interview. I immediately started going through my closet to find something clean and professional for my interview. I also had to figure what who would watch my kids while I was working. I ended up trying an in home daycare for my oldest for a little bit which didn’t work out. They both ended up staying with my parents. After I attended the interview, I was confident in myself that I would be called back for the position.

Before I was old enough to start school I went to daycare. I started at St. Michael when I was 3 years old. My first teacher was Ms.Oria in Pre-K3. The next year in Pre-K4 my teacher was Sister Inez. I met 2 of my current friends that year, Ana and Lesly. My best friend when I was little was Lara. She left the school in second grade.

Overall, my first day at work was pretty awful, and I just hated it. I hated it because of the position I was working ,and the people I was working with were absolutely terrible. They didn’t want to train me they ignored me, and they weren’t doing their job. I was doing a lot of work during my first day, and I ended up throwing up all over the place. I was ready to quit, but I ended up keeping the job. For those reasons, that’s why I hated my first day of

When people first get their license, they immediately begin to envision themselves driving a car that they will likely never drive. The car which I set my sights on was a Dodge Charger. Since my parents understandably wouldn’t buy me a car, I began saving up to buy the car myself. I applied for two jobs during the summer heading into my junior year, along with working for my dad as well.

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,

Starting my first job at CVS was a eye opener in learning how to work together, learning the store and the employees. The positive in this process is that you have the expreince teaching you ins and outs so the transtiton into your positon will become a lot easier. Being able to be trained do a lot in the store comes with good times and bad times, so the negetive aspect of this was I was put into a postion to do customer service which I didn’t feel comfortable doing but if you want the job you have to put your fears aside and learn from those who has done it before, so after two weeks of training I got the hang of what this position had consist of. The moral of this story is I had a lot of help from my co-workers which allowed me to settle

My first job after completing undergrad, was at Planet Fitness. It was actually my first job where I didn’t have any familiarity of the company/organization, my colleagues, or who I would be servicing so everything was brand new to me. The first thing I needed to get familiar with was the formal work-related aspects of the fitness center along with the role specific tasks, skills required, and specific reporting requirements. To achieve this and get me socialized, I was placed with an employee who had experience at Planet Fitness and shadowed them until I was comfortable and able to