Reflection Paper On Work

I worked three hours on Saturday 8/15/2015 and three hours 8/16/2015 at Old Navy. I worked on the registers both days. Saturday was the slowest day I have ever worked so far. This is probably due to the fact people were no longer back to school shopping and it was late at night. I learned about what to do when it is slow in the store which is organize the merchandise in the lines and in the front of the store. My manger gave me the project to organize the shoes which tend to get very messy. This posed a challenge as there were no hangers for all of the shoes on the rack. I had to strategically place them so the rack to look neat. I also had organize the sunglasses and jewelry. I was then taught how to take out the trash and re-bag the hanger

It’s 4:57PM and your superior has just emailed you and a fellow co-worker a project that is needed by 8AM tomorrow morning. You glance at the clock and realize you have two minutes before you must dash out of the office and rush 45 minutes across town to pick your child up from a daycare that closes in 30 minutes. Clearly, there is not nearly enough time to complete the request. You look at the office across from you and see your childless, single counterpart who simply smiles and says “…go ahead. I’ll handle the request”. All the way home you beat yourself up. Pondering how this will look to your superior? Will you look like a slacker or not be considered a “team player”? Or even worse… what potential promotion did you just

After the gathering of data for this paper, I initiated with my writing work for this paper. First of all, I prepared the rough draft and outline with the plan to cover every area in the paper. I get this draft and plan approved by my teacher and gained further recommendations from him. I dedicated a specific time for researching, writing, editing, and proofreading of every area before submitting to my teacher to check and highlight any error or need for improvement. This enabled me to gain more guidelines from my teacher regarding my paper to complete it with efficiency and on time. These guidelines further polished my researching, writing, editing, and proofreading skills. Furthermore, the guidelines I gained from my teacher during the completion

This specific piece of work is some of my best work because of all the collaboration it took my partner and I. This was a very big assignment for us and since it was partner work we had to work together to get it all done. Everything went smoothly when doing our work and we thought everything through. We split everything up evenly, worked out anything we struggled with together, and the end result was everything we could have hoped for. It was very tedious work, but with lots of help that we provided each other we were able to do some of the best work both of us have ever done. Also, our thought process seemed to always be on the same page for the most part which contributed to us being able to work well together. Finally, the project was not only fun, but took a lot of effort. I put a lot of effort into it and so did my partner, but going through eat and every section and part was still enjoyable. It was interesting to see everything put together nicely and being well driven really contributed to the outcome on my part.

For my 2017 year 10 work experience placement, I attended Gravity Dance, a dance studio, teaching normal dance classes after school hours and teaching certificate classes to full-timers during the day. One of my SMART goals for work experience was to build up confidence fitting into the personal and social capability, helping me to be able to talk to the staff without hesitation or nerves, as well as participate in classes and tasks assigned by my supervisor without staying in the corner afraid what others think. Before attending work experience, I was hoping that I would be able to gain a better insight to what it is like to participate in certificate courses and classes in a more professional environment, with older people who take it more seriously. Work experience exceeded my hopes in teaching me about what it is like, and all the different teachers who I took classes from, could give me corrections, advice and tips in how to improve in different styles and exercises which I can take into my normal classes and routines to then better myself as a dancer.

In this rationale I will discuss what I learned in this course as it pertains to the four personality types and demonstrate how I will use this new knowledge in the classroom.

Every little experience in life molds and defines the human you would become as it pushes you towards your destiny. Leaving my native country was hopeful and a thing of joy for me; as I was a newly wedded wife extremely excited to join her husband in California. Unfortunately, my relationship came to an end with me barely walking out with my life. This heartbreaking experience was a kick in the teeth. As I once read your setback is the platform for your come back. That was the genesis of my coming to Houston as I sort out what’s next for me.

The person I interviewed was Tina, she is an ultrasound technician at Eskenazi. She has worked at Eskenazi for more than twenty years. Tina’s microculture is a small group of six women ultrasound technicians. When I was interviewing Tina she told me that her boss just recently got fired this month. I asked her what the atmosphere was like currently, and what it was before. She told me that “Currently unrest because of the unknown.” What she means by this is their boss was fired because he/she wasn't doing her job right. Tina says that their group knew what jobs they need to do, so they were used to the boss not doing their job correctly.” Tina and another Co-worker Amy would do the call schedule, an administrative task, for their department. Typically that's a job a boss would do, but Tina and Amy were just so use to doing it. Before their boss got fired, it was very easy going when working there. The reason is that they work on a lot of patients with cancer. She said “You have to be positive when working with people that have cancer because they are going through a difficult time in their lives, and they don’t need that negativity.” After asking her about the atmosphere of her workplace she revealed to me that before that boss, they didn't have a boss for seven years. I asked her “Since there was no one to supervise you, who was the person that got things done?” She told me everyone in her group knew what jobs they need to do, so if one of them had a problem with something

This report will reflect on my experiences with the methodological approaches and emotional labour that was required to conduct an interview on a topic sensitive to my participant. I did not set out to conduct sensitive qualitative research, but instead to simply understand why students place a high value on unpaid work. However, the questions i asked in my interview inadvertently lead to an emotionally charged discussion on the disadvantage my participant felt they faced because of their economic background. In this report I will firstly briefly outline the content of the interview I conducted to contextualise my discussion. Then I will discuss the methodological approaches used when conducing sensitive research and Finally I will reflect on how conducting this form of research requires the emotional labour of the researcher.

“If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer you're a waiter.” - Dan Poynter. I have felt like writing was not my greatest strength. I feel like I didn't have anything important to say. Looking back to my journal or diary call it whatever I would always write about how my life, the drama middle school me was in, my love life and the fights that would happen between me and my family. I wanted to reflect back on to my work and find out what my strength and my weakness. There have been times where I have been asked to read somebody else's writing. I would think it was so great that I felt discouraged that my work of writing wouldn’t be as great as theirs. My form of writing I feel is more characterized negatively because I don't share my success and triumph often as I would like to.I talk about my failures more. I feel like I do this because I don't want to share about my failures with another human. I know that I would like to write them down so then I can reflect back onto my failures and know how I could better myself and have a better chance of succeeding. I would disagree that my past life as a writer has given me a voice in the world mainly because of the topics I would write about. They weren’t important to others, they were only important to me. Writing in the past was more what was happening day to day and my relationship life, if anything exciting or upsetting happened, my honest opinions of people. Also the secret that I didn't want my mom to find out.

For the dates 17th - 21st July I had the opportunity to attend a Catholic Primary School; St Charles Borromeo; where I accompanied a grade 1/2 class. Working with both the teachers and students I was able to attain an insight about the daily duties of a teacher both during class as well as during their breaks throughout the day. I was able to help the students undertake certain tasks for example reading, writing, maths as well as a range of many others. I also witnessed their classes outside of the classroom such as art, sport, Italian and library. Overall I was able to undertake the position of a teacher in the sense of helping the kids during the tasks they were assigned to, excluding the initial explanation of a topic and leading of a class.

Examining my Work, Play, Fit and Push planner for this week I started off pretty strong. Tuesday came and I slacked off a little because I started feeling sick on Monday afternoon and felt even worse Tuesday, so I got preoccupied on trying to feel better and didn’t work on the schedule I planned, besides doing homework and going to my final critique. Wednesday I felt better so I was able to focus on the schedule again, reorganizing my room as well as my bathroom. I want to be strict on myself following today since being sick kind of threw me off schedule and got me unmotivated. For the rest of the week Friday through Sunday I’m going to try to follow the schedule I have picked out since its little more laid back than the rest of the days. Besides the let back of not feeling the greatest I would say this week went pretty well and I can still finish strong this weekend following my plan.

Day 2 of work experience I worked with Jacinta and Jack again. Jacinta met me at 9:30am, we opened the shop and started making ice cream again, Jacinta had hurt her finger playing netball the night before so I poured all of the milk and did most jobs regarding making ice cream. I also got to serve quite a few people, getting better at smashing the ice cream. At 1:00pm we sat down to have lunch. When it was 2:30pm and Jack came for work Kelly, the owner, came in to see how I was working and offered me a job. Once Kelly left I did as well.

It is about time to write my work term reflection, and it makes me feel excited the idea of sharing my experience and how it influenced me. First and foremost, I would like to thank my college for adding co-op term to our program. I believe there is no better way to finish the undergraduate program without real life experience, it is an essential experience which allows students to develop key skills that cannot be received in the classroom. Secondly, I would like to thank is Ekaline company for a tremendous opportunity they gave me, I felt there as part of the family. Also, I would like to thank my supervisor and the CEO of the company for his patience and fabulous ability to explain the tasks and make people feel confident at the workplace.

Have you ever felt unappreciated at your work? Getting tired of Bob taking all the credit for doing very little while you worked your butt off? Well you are not alone! The good news is that there are a ton of people who feel the same way, hardworking people like yourself getting pushed to the side lines to let people like Bob get the spot light and there are many reasons for this.