My Job At The City Of Irvine Right After College

Living on Earth can be expensive, but it does include free trips around the sun, not to mention free oxygen. Many things aren’t free to people which is why my mom prompted me to get a job. She got tired of investing her hard-earned money on my lavish needs. My first real job was a cashier for Chick-fil-A, in a food court at a local mall. Chick-fill-A is often merited for their service and food, but is still considered fast-food. As much as I dreaded working in fast food, it taught a considerable number of life lessons. Most importantly, Working at Chick-fil-A not only allowed me to understand personal self-growth through circumstances, but to value it.

In the book GiG Americans Talk About Their Jobs, include 100’s of interviews of different people with different jobs that provide personal achievements, and goals that give these individuals the strive to work. These reasonings of why we should work point out much more than money being the outcome. Each individual interviewee has a different reason for why they work, what makes them strive to work, what makes their job’s worth going to each day. From selected interviews “Wal-Mart Greeter”, “Clutter Consultant”, “Lobbyist”, and “Orthopedic Surgeon” each represented different reasons of work;the four that stood out most to me included: Self-worth, appreciation from clients, political belief goals, and mental fulfillment.

Explanation: All three of these factors fit with my career choice. I thrive in an environment where I am given the chance to do what I do best. The amount of pay is important and that is why I plan to pursue a masters in counseling, which will provide an extra income through private practice. The amount of freedom I have in my job is important. I would not do well in an environment where I had to ask permission

Leah LaBelle once stated, ¨Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to.” Society is often caught in the realm between making a living and being content with the work someone is completing. Some argue that happiness should come before money, but others feel as though money allows for more opportunities to create joy. In Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs, Rowe addresses that there are several distasteful jobs that are available to the American people, however, “The broken basic bargain” discusses the psychological issues that can accompany someone should he/she follow one of these unpleasant careers.

I can remember the first hourly paid job I took back when I was 15 years old. I remember being so excited that I was going to have a way to earn some income, so that I would not have to rely on my parents for extra money. I grew up in an average household. My father worked as a tool grinder and made enough money for our family to live and for my mother to be a stay-at-home mom, but we definitely did not have extra money or have the finer things in life. My parents often struggled to pay the bills, but always managed, some how, some way. With that upbringing, I’m not sure that I ever really thought about jobs as much more that a way to earn money. So at a young age, my perspective of what motivated people who work was strictly money. Over the years I have had several jobs, but finally settled on a career in the medical field, or specifically the medical laboratory industry. I started off as a medical lab tech in the US Army and performed that task for 6-8 years. During that time I started to develop thoughts about being a supervisor, because I personally thought that I would do thing different than some of my supervisors. I worked with several people with very different backgrounds and had several supervisors, all with different leadership styles. I could also clearly see that very different things motivated my co-workers and me. Some were motivated by money, some were motivated by helping people, some were motivated by the respect they received from the supervisors

Diversity constitutes a multitude of variations and differences. Everyone has distinct features that differentiate him or her from the one another. Whether short or tall, big or small, we are diversified. In order to help others, to change the world, or to create social cohesiveness, thorough knowledge and experience with diversity is necessary. For this matter, social work is positioned around diversity ethics and as a social worker one must proactively work with a diversified population throughout his or her professional career. Even though I have always had a strong interest in the social work profession, having numerous personal experiences with diversity allowed me to further realize that I had a passion to help people no matter who or what they are. The two experiences that I have had involving diversity and that I recollect the most are that of adjustments I had to make as a student at The University of Alabama and experiences that I have had throughout my three years on my current job at Walgreens.

Workers may need validation or appreciation, a sense of belonging, feelings of accomplishment or achievement, or respect or power. Jobs that provide these determinants or values in the quantities that the individual needs are good jobs in that the worker is going to be happy. Jobs that provide most of these determinants may still be unhappy jobs because the job may be missing that one value that a specific individual needs most. The same job is seen differently by two different people because the values of the individual are the most important determinants of whether or not the job is a happy one.

Your twelve hour shift is about to end and your supervisor comes to you and states, "We are mandating you four more hours because we had a call off". What do you do? You have to work another twelve hour shift tomorrow which would leave about five hours to sleep. You cannot leave your children with the babysitter any longer, but you can't refuse overtime for fear of discipline or termination. This was a rough situation that I had to face. My husband was also deployed at the time which left me to be a single mother raising three daughters and working a full-time schedule. The only choice I was left with was to refuse to stay the mandated four hours. I was threatened by a nurse supervisor that she was going to turn me into the board of nursing for neglect of my patients and I was also going to be fired. The next day I was pulled into the office by the director of nursing. Needless to say I was not turned in to the board of nursing or fired but I was given a written warning. I had been with that company for almost three years and never had any warnings for a single thing. When I was threatend with being turned into the board of nursing and was wrote up that was the last straw for me. I found another job a week later and gave my notice of resignation. Nurses are faced with these scenarios every single day. So what

Later, I found that my personal values were preventing me from doing my work efficiently, and this is when I began to practice self-awareness as well as to create strategies to be reduce personal

After working at McDonalds for three weeks, I began to make new friends and was glad that I didn’t decide to quit my job. I enjoyed that I could earn my own money and didn’t have to ask my mother for money anymore. Work had been great after the first customer incident happened. I had not received any customer complaints and my manager said that I might employee of the

It is important that you develop an awareness of what you value, as these values will be important in informing your relationships with clients, co–workers and employers.

I feel I was one of the lucky one who got a job in very nice and organized company. I received a good salary, had a nice working environment and was given respect by other employees which were really amazing despite being the youngest employee. When I entered in this job, I knew nothing. I was completely inexperienced and unskilled worker but after working here, this job helped me to improve my working skills such as how to communicate with people around me, never try to be hypocrite, stay calm and focus only on my work. Having a job also taught me to value my own work, and what I put into something. As my mother said, this job also taught me how to handle my responsibilities by myself. I became responsible for some of my own expenses. This was a valuable experience for me. I learned the value of the money and taking my own decisions about what I spend my money on. On Short, I feel that if a person works just for the sake of money then there’s no point of working. Yes, money is important but no person can enjoy the work if that person is only working there for the sake of

Breakings through the chains of corporate slavery is in full affect. In other words, nobody wants to work for a heartless corporation that does not value their staff. Individuals are educated and ready to make a career change if necessary. The overwhelming feeling of being imprisoned by a job is dreadful. Even the most loyal captive will seek an opportunity to break free from a dreadful organization. The sensation of being confined within an organization with no room to grow or expand is a daunting feeling. When individuals are treated as if they do not matter, it raises the question; why stay here? If employers are naïve enough to think that there are no other options for hard working people, they are wrong. The information being

That’s when my personal conflict started. I had been working in a place that I liked not for over two years, with nice conditions and friendly co-workers. On the other hand, this other job is offering me a higher salary than what I am making now, while my current job place has never offered to give me a raise of any kind although I have been in situations in the company where I had to take on additional tasks that were originally outside of my job description.

Your job is just a paycheck. You do your job well. You’re successful at it, and you feel secure. But there is no upward advancement. The thought of doing this job for another 10 or 20 years is depressing.