Personal Statement : My Personal And Professional Life

I am a motivated finance and management professional that is eager to acquire additional knowledge and experience. My self-determination and fortitude has made me an asset to my organization. My finance skills include the ability to accurately formulate budgets, analyze trends, and effectively track sales. In a management setting, I am experienced in creating marketing plans, building relationships with clients, and supervising a moderately sized staff. I am often acknowledged for taking the unconventional route in management. Co-workers and supervisors recognize my extensive attention to detail, while being accessible at all times. In addition, I excel at troubleshooting and adapting to change in a dynamic industry. Furthermore, I approach

I was born the fourth of December 1991 in Cranbrook British Columbia. I lived there for 18 years. Before joining the military I worked as a fry cook at a Burger King for three years and held part time jobs working for the College of the Rockies summer camp programs during the summer. My parents are currently living together in Cranbrook BC. My father works outside the province testing railway tracks for two months at a time, then returns home for two to three weeks. My mother acts as the main contact point of the family, she works as a financial clerk. I have a 22 year old sister who will be attending university in Calgary this September. I attended Mount Baker Secondary School in Cranbrook and graduated in 2009

My loving grandfather passed away after fighting two battles with cancer. He won the first but lost the second. He was a strong man and did not let anything bring him down, but towards the end, he was physically weak and fragile. Although he maintained a good spirit, love for life and a welcoming smile, it pained me to see him getting sicker. I felt helpless and at times angry but there was nothing I can do but to be there for him, and cherish our memories together that will last me a lifetime after his death. Living those sick days with my grandfather and the many visits we made over the years to the hospital and to health care providers seeking recovery and sometimes seeking farewells, intrigued my developing brain. I began to understand how complex and fascinating the human body is, but also how fragile and ailing it could be. I became familiar with medical professionals and I was inspired by their dedication, hard work, and wealth of knowledge, but yet their struggle with their limitations as human beings. Most of all, I was touched by how medical professionals asserted their competence and communicated their knowledge to their patients, but at the same time accepted their limitations and helplessness while showing genuine empathy to their sick patients. Therefore, I decided to pursue medicine, to replenish my thirst for knowledge about the complexity, fragility, and mortality of the human body. To understand disease processes and more importantly

I believe that my purpose in life is to help others, put others before myself, shed love on others and to enjoy the time I have here on this Earth. Achieving my purpose in life will take time, practice, and an extensive amount of education. With my supportive family and friends that have the same views and values as me, I will achieve this goal.

There are few certainties of what one will encounter during life. A common joke names two: death and

This class has overall been one of my favorite classes that I have taken over the past four years five years at DeSales. I learned more than I expected and have implemented some of these learned lessons towards simple excel calculations into my work at my job. For my chosen project, I decided to take a look at one of my hobbies. During my senior year I took a personal finance and discussed with one of my professors about my collection of trading cards. The result of this conversation, had me start thinking about the overall value of my collection for insurance purposes and if I ever sold the collection.

This year my key responsibilities have been as a manager in the school hygiene,leading a team in the logistics of supplying the schools hygiene products. I have also organised short PE sessions for my peers with the help of fellow students.

I am passionate, dedicated and confident. I work frequently with children and animals and enjoy doing so, showing myself to be confident and responsible. I care about my community and committed to helping others in difficult situations. I also work well in a team and I easily follow instructions, showing myself to be an easy learner and flexible. I have good organisational skills, as well as good time keeping. I love busy environments as I have strong communication skills and enjoy socializing.

My vision as an undergraduate student of the Haskayne School of Business (HSB) is to become a well-rounded influential leader and equip myself with a set of skills and values that will enhance me as an individual in my career. Thus, my goal is to succeed academically and socially, graduating with a distinction and having built strong relationships.

It was a cold autumn night in North Carolina when I realized that my youth was being taken away from me. I wanted to run away and go back to the life that I had known; where I had the opportunity to go to school was happy and understood the language. Instead I was in a foreign land with my family and we could not return for there was no future in my homeland. According to my father, we had to keep migrating because it was the best thing for our family. It was then when I realized that this is not what I wanted for my family and I asked my father that we needed to go somewhere where I can go to school because it was affecting everybody including my little brother. My father raised me to believe I could accomplish anything I set my mind to

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

I thrive on gaining knowledge. Even now, as a non-traditional student and busy mother to two young children, learning excites me. As an 18-year-old in Germany, I began a 10-year career as a military analyst that honed my ability to think critically, pay attention to detail, and visualize holistic solutions to unique problems. However, I spent my free time riding a bike along The Rhine searching for a quiet space to settle in with the wisdom of books such as The Art of Happiness and The Elegant Universe. There, on those riverbanks, I discovered within myself an innate curiosity of the mind and the fundamental nature of the world.

My first recollection of paid employment was as a paperboy. I remember walking my neighborhood saving money to purchase a bike, with the intention of accelerating my work hours and allowing for an efficient work model. During high school I worked as a counselor at the town summer camp. My work experiences paled in comparison to my peers, as I was absorbed in athletics and most specifically soccer. In retrospect I regret not seeking various forms of employment during my teenage years as I feel that I would have developed a positive identity of work.

In our lives, we have to make important choices, and sometimes our choices determine our happiness or sadness. As a Filipino, our families tell us to do well in school and to not make bad choices because they want us to be successful and to have ethical morals. Growing up as a Catholic, I was taught to be obedient and respectful to my family which has shaped who I am today. Yet, I too made some mistakes, and I learned from the consequences. From my failures, I learned to not belittle myself, but to grow.

It’s quite peculiar to compare my past to my future, my dreams to my reality, my love to my loss. When I was a wee boy in Ireland, I had of course thought to escape the squalor and poverty plaguing my community and family. I spent most of my time working around town doing odd jobs around Mrs. O 'Flanagan 's yard or herding Mr. Davey’s sheep, rather than going to school. You see, both out of necessity and I desire, grew up on land. I’ll tell you, no arithmetic or geography could’ve taught me the lessons of life that I earned while working dusk to dawn. If it hadn’t been for my family’s poverty, I wouldn’t have understood the importance of hard work and property. Though I was just about the poorest kid class (whenever I did go) I had a