Personal Narrative: Working At The Workplace

My internship takes place in Youth Service America (YSA), a non-profit organization based in Washington DC. Since it was established in 1989, YSA’s mission has been to encourage youth to make a positive impact in this world. Furthermore, YSA also focuses on educating youth about global issues and celebrates young people that are already facilitating change. For my internship, I work twenty hours a week; these hours are split among three days.

A great amount of work that I feel will encountering in the future. Other than that the rest of work was either physical or administrative. Whether that be stamping brochures, lugging things up to storage, putting together letters to send out to people interested in our gala event, calling businesses to get donations for our gala event and driving to said businesses to get donations and lots more. One of the worst things I had to do was clean panes of glass for an event that was three or four months away. It was one of the most tedious, boring and frustrating things I have ever done because I had to use a razor blade and goo gone. There were fourteen panes of glass and it took two days to do it. It was the one thing I didn’t like doing at my internship because I felt like this didn’t pertain to me at all. Regardless, I wanted to be a good intern and do whatever I was asked to do to make things go more smoothly for the

I took a few classes and interned at a small office in Elmhurst, but I was no typical intern. Two days a week? I was there every day of the week. I wanted to learn as much as I could and help as many people as I could. My dedication was rewarded with a job offer on the completion of my internship, and I have worked there

My employment history is limited, however, I am learning to be proud of my accomplishments. I think I just found out my problem lack of confidence! The key every good communicator needs. I am working on that, I promise. My first official job I had was at a non-profit organization named City Year. City Year is located in 25 cities throughout the United State, and also in the United Kingdom. I served as a corps member in New York and was coincidentally placed at my old elementary school. During my time there I mentored, tutored, and provided in classroom support to third grade students. I also was my team outreach coordinator for some time and then took on the role of data evaluator. After City Year I was a corps member for Jumpstart For Young

Of all the aspects of my personality, the most distinguishing is my work ethic. This is best exemplified in the ways that I have risen to the top within the groups I have worked with and the projects I have worked on. The most recent example: I am currently working with a student committee at my high school to organize a “Career Day”. Although I came into the group on their second meeting, I am now the de facto leader as I have accepted the most responsibility and been key in communicating with administration to plan and schedule the event. When nobody will take on an assignment or when I feel an assignment is not being completed well enough, I step in, and that is what happened with my involvement on this project. For another example, I went

At approximately 1400 on Wednesday, March 9,2016 I arrived at 7810 Shaver Rd for my Internship with the Portage Department of public safety. I meet with LT.VandenBrink he then told me that I would be riding with an officer today. The officer's name was officer Mike Kline. I went and put my vest on and then meet with kline as soon as he arrived to the station from a call he was on. When Kline arrived I introduced myself we were about to head out when he remembered that he had to pick up a paper he printed off. After he got the paper we went ot to his car we left the station and he informed me that we would be driving around the portage Rd area because he was waiting on a call about some apartments that he might have to go to and sweep for and

Being able to work with individuals that differ from me culturally, ethnically, and religiously is a trait that I pride myself in having obtained at a young age. I developed this trait through my unique childhood in which I lived in three vastly different states, Michigan, Hawaii, and Arizona. While living in these states I interacted with a diverse group of cultures, from Samoan and Filipino in Hawaii to Native American and Hispanic in Arizona. Being exposed to diverse surroundings at a young age allowed me the opportunity to work with others that differed from me throughout my school years. This opportunity to delve into a diverse atmosphere at such a young age allowed me to develop this trait sooner than many of my peers.

My husband was laid off from a project that was expected to run for a year. A new boss came in, and with him were an array of workers he can't abandon. To make the story reluctantly brief, my husband was out of work.

I went behind everyone to the kitchen and started cooking the biggest feast i could make, even the chefs didnt know anything, in the morning, we had one of the best parties i have ever seen, and then the single most important thing happend, my then fiancee get in her knees and propose to me, i said

In working-out, there are no shortcuts so I stand there, sweat dripping down my face, the bar heavy with 135 pounds on my shoulders while my school’s strength coach encourages me, “come on, you got this”. I do it. I squat a set of 135 pounds for the first time!

It was mid April and I was sitting in Mrs. Walker’s Algebra 2 CP class when I was called up to the office. My mood changed within a matter of seconds. The week before Easter, my grandfather who was emitted to Saint Francis Hospital. So when I was called up to the office I knew it had to be about my grandfather. I walked into Mrs. Huffman’s office and she told me my mom was on the phone and she told me the bad news.

The staff was very welcoming of me and always had a smile on their face. Since sophomore year of high school I had worked at a daycare or summer camp I wasn’t use to working with adults older than me on a daily basis. It was a different environment that I had to get use to but having such a nice and passionate staff made it easier. I enjoyed the planning and organization aspect of the internship the most. I loved being able to bring my creativity into the posts and just having everything organized and ready to post made me feel on top of my game. I do have to say balancing a job with an internship was difficult because I would have to change roles in a heartbeat. In my camp director role I am always running around to do this and that. In my internship role I sit at a desk all day and work on a computer. I found myself becoming antsy and fidgety. I don’t mind working at a desk for an hour or so but 6 hours was too much. Also, I found my internship had to deal with mostly all writing. I wish I was able to give presentations or talk to participants in different settings more. Lastly, I found that when I made a mistake in my postings or other aspects of my internship I was directed in the right way. I almost couldn’t learn from my mistakes as much as I wish I could have. Through this experience I have found that being a part of a

Wife: Going to the church together during Sunday services, and practice Spanish because he is Mexican and laughing about my accent.

This was great because you’re able to get a taste of everything the office does. During National Work & Family Month, I worked with the Media manager to create brochures, send out press releases, call and invite various medias within D.C., set up the room, check-in guests and panelists and then send out thank you emails to participants. For this event, I also assisted the Public Affairs Manager with the paid twitter campaign for this year. This included creating tweets covering workplace topics and searching for illustrations. I was assigned to research the best times and days to send out tweets in order to reach the largest audience. I worked mostly with the Public Affairs manager writing pieces relating the bills such as the CEO pay ratio, Cadillac Tax, increasing the minimum wage, and various FLSA issues. These were then published in the organizations monthly “Workspan”. I was also able to research and write about SCOTUS cases having to do with the workplace. The biggest pro of this internship was the amount of feedback and practice I was able to do with my writing. Apart from writing, I even got to attend an oral argument. I was able to work with lobbyist on creating and updating a map that shows every state’s minimum wage, and any future

My present job has given me the opportunity to work with the public all day for example, a