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College Admissions Essay: My First Career

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I’ve always been that kind of guy who was good with numbers. Throughout my school years, I never had the desire to put in extra effort when it came to English classes or written works. My focus really seemed to rotate around a desire to be a hundred and ten percent into computers and technologies. I assumed that I would always have access to word processors or the Internet if I ever needed spell checking or literacy advice, or at least that’s how I summarized it. So, that philosophy only worked for so long, in a nutshell, less than two years into my first career job! After leaving school, I landed a job at a Software Engineering company. This job was perfect; I was writing code and crunching numbers to my hearts desire. After a few years, …show more content…

Plus, I was more than ready to grow within my career. “Darren, I’d love to do it. Engineering is my first love, you can rely on me” I quickly responded. He looked pleased but clearly there was something else on his mind, “As a team lead, I expect weekly reports as well as comprehensive technology design documents.”. That sounded like he implying my communication skills had been lacking. “One more thing, no more email responses that would fit on the back of a postage stamp. You’re now responsible for all conveying your team’s status to rest of the office,” he said. The nervous feeling continued as I left his office, as I hadn’t seen myself as doing administration work. That said, I was more than happy that my career was moving forward, and ready to give this my best shot. The time came for my first report summarizing the weekly status of my new team members. What I hadn’t anticipated was how difficult writing a report could be. Or at least creating something that was easy to read, articulated and well written. My writing skills were less than stellar. That first report took a lot of effort. I spent the whole weekend on it, to be precise. Over the weeks I became more comfortable with putting details and perspective into my reports and emails. I continued improving throughout the next few years; as my engineering would take a back seat as my day-to-day

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