Work Ethic Personal Statement

I have been cursed with what is commonly known as the midwest work ethic. The thought of humbly putting in the work to get the job done right. That is the reason why I need the academy internship. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and have had an interest in invention all my life. I had originally wanted to become an aerospace engineer as a kid. It’s hard to find a middle schooler dead set on becoming a rocket scientist. Freshman year of highschool, to my parents surprise, I learned I wanted to become a filmmaker. After few years working on narrative shorts and commercial projects, I learned that my true love was in Cinematography. I am currently a sophomore in the Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film, which only accepts about 10-14 film

“My parents introduced me to financial stewardship at a very early age. At the age of 12, I was working in youth programs, changing lives in Philadelphia’s inner city.”

When divorce and poverty strike a household, statistics show that a student’s potential can take the hit, but these events actually taught me to leap over any kind of hurdle I face. At the same time, my parent’s divorce and the Great Recession ate up our limited savings, and I was told my future dreams were no longer realistic, so college would be out of the question. Disappointed, I kept my nose to the grindstone to prove my parents wrong, and I found that my career is only limited by my work ethic, and I could succeed no matter what I was told I could do. My work inside and outside of the classroom made me an honored student at Howell High School and a volunteer recognized by the state of Michigan’s recreation department. Just as these plans

As a senior at Red Cloud High School, I’m a member of National Honor Society, captain of the cheer squad, lifeguard, swimming instructor, and part-time employee at the local grocery store. I’ve come to learn from a young age that money doesn’t grow on trees. When growing up, it was just my mother and I. While living on her single parent income, I learned money doesn’t grow on trees. My mother worked a minimum wage job, facing financial struggles at times. Her willpower drove her to get the job she has today. My mother married, and I have a little brother now. As his big sister, I always wanted to be someone he could look up to. At the age of fifteen I became a lifeguard at the community pool. The next year I took classes to be a certified Water Safety Instructor, so I could teach swimming lessons to local children. That same year I applied at the local grocery store, to have a job during the school year.

I realized from a very young age that hard work would always produce an exuberant reward. While growing up my parents gave me copious opportunities to earn money by doing chores and projects. Every time I earned money for taking out the trash or feeding my dog, my mother would lecture me to save it. I would never listen, and instead I would squander it on the first soda or chocolate bar that crossed my path. One of the most memorable moments in my lifetime was when I got my first job working at Subway®. It wasn’t the best job, but it made me feel self-sufficient. The weekend after I received my first paycheck, with the assistance of my mother, I went and opened a savings and checking account at our local bank. My mother expressed to me that it is important

I cannot attribute my strong work ethic to any particular experience in my life, as I have strived to exceed the requirements, whether it be academic, musical, or athletic, ever since I could walk and talk. In school, I have always approached my assignments, projects, and tests with a perfectionist fanaticism. There has always been something rather satisfying with maintaining good grades, however, more deeply rooted in my academic approach has been my desire to learn and develop. Over the years, I have taken every spoonful of intellectual medicine that has ever been fed to me by my teachers with somewhat of a resolute spirit, as if I was doing so would prove that I could master any academic matter thrown my way. I do not regret getting above a 4.0 every semester of high school—I am proud of how my hard work has payed off.

The goal of this course is to get you thinking about personal finance issues at a point in your life when you still have time to benefit from the power of time in generating wealth to accomplish your other life goals. The financial decisions you make early in life with determine in great extent the quality of life you will enjoy later, especially given the turbulent and uncertain economic conditions. Money isn’t everything, but a lack of it will impact almost every aspect of your life and those who surround you.

My whole life has consisted of insufficient finances, whether it be my mother struggling to pay the bills to keep the heat and electric on or her trying to find something for us to eat for the night with only $10. Even though there were hard time's she has always managed to take care of all seven of us. Due to these hardships, it has made me the person who I am today; hardworking and dedicated. For example, at the age of 16, I started my first job at Taco Bell, where I worked for 2 years and now work at Ruby Memorial Hospital being a Nutrition Care Assistant. Working at such a young age has shown me the value of a dollar and due to this, I have a great work ethic. However, financial difficulties have still held me back with schooling such

In this season of my life, I find myself residing in the most opportune time to reflect on my managerial competencies, as my surrounding environment in which I now lead and manage, has taken a dramatic shift. The eight roles identified by the Competing Values Framework that are essential for effective management, do not make the smoothest transition from a multi until store manager in a retail environment, to a Director of Children’s Ministry in a religious institution. The competencies in which I excelled in Corporate America, I find are not the strengths I need to tap into to find success in my new role. Therefore, in order to achieve the vision of what comparable success is in my new role, I need to build on my competencies that display weakness in regards to the Competing Values Framework that will be the defining factor of my success or failure.

​I grew up in Belen, a small rural town in New Mexico, I am the youngest of 8 children. I was raised with two parents who have an uncompromising work ethic, and that in itself has taught me so much. My dad has always been a private contractor and since I was young I can remember helping him in the yard after he came home from a ten plus, hour work day. From kindergarten until seventh grade, I was homeschooled by my mom who worked hard to teach me, and my older sister and brother. Somehow she managed to teach, manage our home and do the books and payroll for their business. After seventh grade, I attended a private school for two years where I learned a lot in a structured environment that stressed the importance of all of the core subjects. After eighth grade, I made the decision to go to a public high school. I felt that this was the best decision for me because I would be submerged in an environment with more elective options and a larger diversity of peers, in order to gain valuable communication and social skills. I felt that this decision would also benefit my parents

At the age of thirteen, I wondered how to make money, and I found a solution. It all started at 5:30 am in August of 2013 outside of Bridgestone Arena, one year after I had been cured from epilepsy with a double craniotomy, which would make me realize life is short, driving my young work ethic. My love for the sport of hockey attracted me to a used gear sale, where I would be able to get some of the Nashville Predators players’ equipment. I took a thousand dollar loan from my mom, which took a little explaining, but she trusted my work ethic. I bought more hockey gear than one could ever need, buying around twenty sticks and five pairs of hockey gloves. After sorting through the gear at my house, I figured I only needed about a fifth of the gear. I took all the extra gear and found a

If I were to use one word to summarize my past, my failures and successes, my future goals, and my personality I would use the word sports. I know this is supposed to be a reflection about school this year, but sports impacted who I was as a student this year. As an athlete I learned how to work hard, work through failure, and how to have an effective routine. This year for hockey I also learned that I have to make sacrifices to make time to practice, for instance I had to practice in the mornings to get time on the ice. I had to wake up and get in my car that reeked of hockey gear, then get on the ice to skate around for practice and feel the sweat run down my back.

I come from a family where hard work and dedication runs through our veins like ants out of an infringed ant hill. From birth, both my mother and father have instilled in me the importance of getting a sound education while maintaining a positive relationship with my family, my peers, and with God. It was under the leadership and guidance of my parents that I untapped my thrill for learning and sought to go beyond any stereotypes or labels I was given. Overall, I consider myself to be an academically sound individual. Throughout my career as a student at Monroe High School, I have made an effort to exhibit a sustained, unrelenting work ethic.

Today I am a house cleaning lady, I work and pay for my son and my self and my school. I learn the lesson back in 2006 that I was not going to be able to get any scholarships or financial help, because of my immigration status. I made the decision that I will work hard and save the money for school no matter what it takes. I keep attending the school even after I had my son, taking care of him and working and taking one class at a time. Education is been my priority even if is difficult to get a degree; I keep reading and self-educating my self and I know that one day I will for sure will have a degree even if it takes me logger time. I must expect great things of myself before you can do them.

Well, for me in school being a nerd and an overachiever many fellow students would hate that, but the opposite seemed to happen in my History class people would look up to me because my diligent work ethic and overall success in the class, because they wanted to genuinely succeed in high school. This is when I got the idea to tutor after school and conveniently there was a program in my school called the homework lab, in which struggling teens would go to when they want to do homework or understand something from class. I happened to be one of the volunteers for that program, so I decided to make study group after school and tutor each individual like a teacher, I gained and gave away a lot of knowledge and luckily all that hard work paid off