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The Most Important Being Industrious, Decisive, And Tenacious Person I Am Essay

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I can be characterized as being many things and the three most important being industrious, decisive, and tenacious. All of these characteristics have allowed me to get to where I am and are the drivers in my daily life. They continue to help me grow as a person, in my career, and in my relationships. I believe that the struggles that I have faced have fueled me and made me the industrious, decisive and tenacious person I am today. I am the oldest of five children and have had to take on the many responsibilities that come along with being the first born. I believe that my industriousness started to shape up the minute my first sibling was born. Life isn’t easy for any family with five children, much less for a family with parents that came here from another country. Growing up, the only way I could get the latest and greatest of anything was by working for it. At the age of 15, a year after my parents both our first house, I decided it was time to start helping the household since all of my parents’ money now went to our mortgage. One of my mother’s friends, Dina, owned her own office-cleaning business so for weeks I begged her to let me join her team. She reluctantly agreed and would pick me up, after I finished my homework, and we would head out on our journey from San Jose to Palo Alto. We cleaned private medical offices that were much fancier than anything I had ever been in. We scrubbed the toilets, took out the trash, cleaned dirty coffee mugs and then headed home

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