Hey, if you just grow 1/3% a day, you can double in a year, right?
But it doesn’t happen like that. You’ll go ahead 5%, back 7%, ahead 4%, then be flat. Keep trying.
Then ahead 9%, back 5%, ahead 6%…notice the results you’re getting, make adjustments and keep trying.
Progress is never a straight and smooth line.
Good morning sir. See you Wednesday.
A little bit like last night’s Superbowl Game eh?
The road:
– Seamstress – assembling underwear in a factory (7 months) right after highschool to earn some money for upcoming wedding
– House keeper (1.5 years)- cleaned 3 houses a week while I was going full time to college to learn english as a second language.
– Dishwasher (6 months)- once I got my work permit I washed dishes a couple of nights a week in a convalescent home
– Dietary Aid (1 year)- promotion at the convalescent home
– Recreation Assistant (2 years)- transfer to the recreation department in the convalescent home conducting arts and crafts, social and sporting events
– Credit Associate – Kohls (4 months) greeting customers and offering store credit accounts
– Medical Records – (3 years) medical records at a family care practice
– Cashier/Head Cashier/ Customer Service Clerk/ Closing Bookkeeper/ Opening Bookeeper/ Head Bookkeeper at a local grocery store (5 years)
– Payroll Assistant – Electrical Construction (1 year) – running the union payroll twice a week (different pay dates in union contracts)
– Project Administrator – Electrical/Mechanical Construction (1.5 years) – worked with the project manager on billing, ap, payroll, hr
– Office Manager (1.5 years) civil engineering
– Operations/Office Manager – Construction Company
Wow, I been around because I kept climbing that mountain. I sold my body and soul to the companies I worked for. At some points because of the crazy amount of hours (two jobs) I was looking for a way out (mostly through others) which always resulted in the biggest lessons I learned about myself. I should be more proud of my struggle but I am not. Maybe I should make it a point from now on to embrace more of all the crazy things I put myself through. The road enabled the growth. It was all necessary to be here today so I am glad I made it. What made me list the background? I just wanted to provide a better description because one page resumes can only hold so much. And this list is more so I can see and appreciate my own bumpy ride.
My road is not worse or better than others. It may be different but I believe I am fairly lucky. None of it is made up, maybe presented from a different perspective as a method to transform the feel of the struggle and my own attitude towards it and the way I think about what and why it happened. It was a choice. My choice to fight to live.