Family Christmas

Christmas is always a big event with my family. Aside from Thanksgiving, my family always comes together to celebrate this event with food, games, and smiles. Every Christmas the gift exchange game we do is called the White Elephant, which is where everyone brings a gift and we draw numbers. The numbers are called in order and each person gets to pick a gift that is wrapped. Most of these gifts however were gag gifts but they come with a gift card. These gag gifts makes the event so much more enjoyable and allows everyone to be creative in how they disguise their gag gift. Unfortunately, for me I picked a gift that I hoped wasn't anything bad, but inside the box was a plunger. I was laughing all night about it because there were even funnier gifts given out, but I think mine was the best. This event always brings my family come together and I plan to keep this event going when I have children of my own.

Qualities of an Intern

The differences everyone encounters in their job is their duties and responsibilities. Most jobs have their benefits as well as negatives which ultimately determines whether or not that is the job that you would want. Some similarities I noticed were that it involved a lot of human interaction and it required a lot of organization skills as well as communication.Internship readiness appears to me as someone who is confident, energetic, hard working, and ready to interact with many people. These people show that they can turn things on time, cooperate with others, and always have a positive attitude. I would like to become this type of person to better myself and to be ready for internship as I continue to grow. I believe that if I can demonstrate this attitude towards my future manager and convert on the feedback I am being given at Year Up I will be successful in whatever path I choose

Reflection on Poll Working Experience

A one day job that I’ve had during high school was Poll Worker for San Francisco. My job was to connect everyone’s identification with the list we had to make sure they were in the right poll area to vote. I enjoyed this job because there was a lot of interaction and I got to meet many new faces. At 6 A.M. in the morning we all had to show up in a cold dark garage and set up the poll area. Unfortunately this is probably the part I hated along with closing because I did not know my fellow poll workers and it was freezing in the morning not to mention that it was really far away from my house. Despite the setting up and closing I felt this job really taught me a lot because I quickly adapted to the situation and managed to set everything up with my poll workers before it was official opening time. It was really hard to remember everyone’s names but none of us took it personally. I felt once we got to know each other during our down time it felt a lot easier to talk with each other.  I developed a little more patience working with people because I knew that it would take a while to match people’s identification with the names on the list and that they were busy people and had better things to do. I feel this experience taught me how to work together with a team quickly and even though it was an ephemeral type of job, I got more out of this experience than any other type of job.