Perfectionism. I have spent the better part of half an hour back spacing and retyping the opening line of this paper and will spend hours more after I finish typing doing edits. This part of my personality could be seen as a strength, but sometimes it’s just so. darn. frustrating. because the ideal situation…conversation… is not always possible. I want the best for my myself, for those I love and for my relationships with those I love and because of this I am a goal setter and more importantly, an achiever. This determination and passion is what led me to travel across the world alone four times, has put me beside the person that I walk this earth and is also why I have now gone back to school twice (and I still plan to further my education
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A component of having good social skills is knowing yourself and being able to moderate your responses. This comes naturally to me, being an intuitive type personality. Another part of having good social skills is being able to empathize correctly and communicate effectively to others. I have always had way more success with interpersonal communication then mass or even small group, which means getting to know people personality, establishing trust and generally being interested. I am a skilled artist, and this is proven with my list of accomplishments through the years that have come in the form of plaques, awards and a degree in fine art. My skill as an artist is built off of other skills that I have fine-tuned over the years such as; detail orientation, fine motor skills, amazing hand-eye coordination, map skills, able to follow written and visual instruction…the list goes on. Over the course of my life I have learned how to be adaptable and it has served me well. Not being able to be adaptable is what prevents people from moving forward in their lives and in turn can make life stagnant and dull, unless you’re into that and I don’t judge. I have lived in the jungles of Thailand and a rural community of the Yukon because I love knowledge through experience, which comes from being able to adapt! Learning a new language because you don’t …show more content…
I had been applying to jobs I thought were attractive, ones where you didn’t have to wear a uniform and paid more than $8.20 an hour, but wasn’t hearing back from anyone. My bar patrons were the slimiest, middle aged, self-employed contract works that cat called across the bar and came in every. single. day… not my idea of a good time at work. After I left that place I moved north and began a string of 6 month seasonal jobs doing anything from serving to dealing cards. Over the course of the next 4 years the only job that gave me any sort of satisfaction was my ESL teaching job in Thailand. I loved my kids and they loved me and I finally felt a sense of self-worth in my job and I think that’s when I knew that I needed to work in human services. After my contract ended I still went back to working those seasonal jobs, I kept trying different things never being SURE of what I really wanted because I could always see 10 wildly different career paths in front of me. My family gave up tracking my latest venture, “Emily we’re so worried about you”, instead of just letting me figure it out. It wasn’t until this past summer when I had been searching for a job for quite some time that I happened upon the option to go back to school. I had been toying with the idea on and off but hadn’t made the moves down that road yet. This time it felt right, I
A component of having good social skills is knowing yourself and being able to moderate your responses. This comes naturally to me, being an intuitive type personality. Another part of having good social skills is being able to empathize correctly and communicate effectively to others. I have always had way more success with interpersonal communication then mass or even small group, which means getting to know people personality, establishing trust and generally being interested. I am a skilled artist, and this is proven with my list of accomplishments through the years that have come in the form of plaques, awards and a degree in fine art. My skill as an artist is built off of other skills that I have fine-tuned over the years such as; detail orientation, fine motor skills, amazing hand-eye coordination, map skills, able to follow written and visual instruction…the list goes on. Over the course of my life I have learned how to be adaptable and it has served me well. Not being able to be adaptable is what prevents people from moving forward in their lives and in turn can make life stagnant and dull, unless you’re into that and I don’t judge. I have lived in the jungles of Thailand and a rural community of the Yukon because I love knowledge through experience, which comes from being able to adapt! Learning a new language because you don’t …show more content…
I had been applying to jobs I thought were attractive, ones where you didn’t have to wear a uniform and paid more than $8.20 an hour, but wasn’t hearing back from anyone. My bar patrons were the slimiest, middle aged, self-employed contract works that cat called across the bar and came in every. single. day… not my idea of a good time at work. After I left that place I moved north and began a string of 6 month seasonal jobs doing anything from serving to dealing cards. Over the course of the next 4 years the only job that gave me any sort of satisfaction was my ESL teaching job in Thailand. I loved my kids and they loved me and I finally felt a sense of self-worth in my job and I think that’s when I knew that I needed to work in human services. After my contract ended I still went back to working those seasonal jobs, I kept trying different things never being SURE of what I really wanted because I could always see 10 wildly different career paths in front of me. My family gave up tracking my latest venture, “Emily we’re so worried about you”, instead of just letting me figure it out. It wasn’t until this past summer when I had been searching for a job for quite some time that I happened upon the option to go back to school. I had been toying with the idea on and off but hadn’t made the moves down that road yet. This time it felt right, I