Winter Break 2

As I stated in my last post, I primarily relaxed because when I get back, there will be alot of work ahead of me.  I basically did what I love to do on my freetime like: go to the gym and excercise to unwind and think, draw and paint by hand and begin using my new wacom tablet and play Xbox live.  These activities make me happy and are my form of yoga.

Winter Break

At the start of the break, I relaxed and got everyone significant in my life small gifts.  More or less, I began breaking away years ago from that hype of buying everyone loads of gifts and showing appreciation for one day.  Throughout the year, I gave small trinckets, gifts and showings of appreciation.  Why should we as citizens listen to a bunch people who only want us to shop alot so they make their money and dictate to us on a made up date that probably was not Jesus's real birthdate.

Internship Readiness

The qualities for internship readiness includes at the least professionalism along with organization and time management.  These qualities will allow interns to work under pressure and meet deadlines.  In addition to being self sufficient, when one does not understand something, taking the initiative to do research shows dedication.  How I will demonstrate internship readiness is continue to practice good time mangement, organization and professionalism.  I will work on slant and atleast appear interested.  I need to work alot more on my non verbal que's to appear enthusiastic about what I am doing instead of appearing to have an attitude and giving the wrong message. 

Past Jobs

My best job would be an event assistant; I assist in setting up party tray foods, spirits and other drinks for events.  I walk around and hand out food and drinks, assist with organizing and cleanup in the environment, set up paper plates, forks, spoons, and napkins.  I ask people attending event if they’re hungry or thirsty. What makes the job enjoyable is little effort is required to do the job except set up, clean up and accommodate.  Little to no customer service is required.  I earn $100 bucks every event I work in.  I get free food and drink (wine).  The only thing I hate about it is that I am on call in every other week sometimes consecutive weeks.  The skills that have developed for me was attention to detail and persistence.  What I learned about this workplace experience is I enjoy tasks with detail, little interaction and the same routine.

The worst job I’ve ever had was working at Safeway as a courtesy clerk.  My duties were to collect shopping carts, bag groceries, collect hand baskets, sweep floors, return go-back items and assist customers.    What I hated about the job was there were a lot of task required of a courtesy clerk at only $8.25 an hour.  The courtesy clerks did not get much respect especially from the spoiled customers.  Since I was 17-18 during the time I had this job, I was still adjusting my attitude and maturity and I was easily angered or frustrated with the customers shouting, demands and irritations.  The skills that helped were time management, customer service, and patience.