My First Job Experience How would you describe your first day at work? What are some challenges that you had to overcome? My challenge was my first day at work. Everything was new to me and I had to memorize the menu and table numbers. It was my first task and it took me a long time to memorize. I wanted to be support my mom, show that I can do things independently, and support myself financially. I never would have thought that I was going to work at a Korean Restaurant as a cashier because that restaurant is my favorite place. I did lots of different part time job before coming here. I was reading this Korean book, it was about the stages of maturity in each age groups. The book inspired me and I changed my mind that I should grow up and
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My main reason was that I worked was because of my sister. My sister didn’t like me because I didn’t work while I can. She was complaining to me everyday how I wasn’t working and just hanging around with my friends everyday. One thing she said that was shocking was, “ You are old enough to work and take care of your own things and stop acting immature and grow up.” I couldn’t say anything back then. Even my mom told me to work and earn myself my own money. Few days later, by the help of newspaper I got a job. I went to job interview at Korean Restaurant and told me to come tomorrow for training. I was so happy that I could fly away. Now, finally I can earn myself a money and don’t have to ask my mom for …show more content…
I’m very introvert and shy. I have little bit of hard time meeting new people and get along with them. I was worried that what if I can 't get along with my coworkers. When I went through the restaurant 's door and I saw my coworkers. I did 90 degree fold down bow. This is one of korean’s manner. It was very difficult to me to get along since they are not in my age group. The first thing I did was to remember the menu and know the table numbers. The very hard thing was for me was to remember the menu and know what each dishes are. Also, we had to abbreviate the name of the menu. There was 100 different kinds of menu to remember. I learned how to punch in the menu, take togo orders, and nicely fold utensils. So here is where I made a lots of
My main reason was that I worked was because of my sister. My sister didn’t like me because I didn’t work while I can. She was complaining to me everyday how I wasn’t working and just hanging around with my friends everyday. One thing she said that was shocking was, “ You are old enough to work and take care of your own things and stop acting immature and grow up.” I couldn’t say anything back then. Even my mom told me to work and earn myself my own money. Few days later, by the help of newspaper I got a job. I went to job interview at Korean Restaurant and told me to come tomorrow for training. I was so happy that I could fly away. Now, finally I can earn myself a money and don’t have to ask my mom for …show more content…
I’m very introvert and shy. I have little bit of hard time meeting new people and get along with them. I was worried that what if I can 't get along with my coworkers. When I went through the restaurant 's door and I saw my coworkers. I did 90 degree fold down bow. This is one of korean’s manner. It was very difficult to me to get along since they are not in my age group. The first thing I did was to remember the menu and know the table numbers. The very hard thing was for me was to remember the menu and know what each dishes are. Also, we had to abbreviate the name of the menu. There was 100 different kinds of menu to remember. I learned how to punch in the menu, take togo orders, and nicely fold utensils. So here is where I made a lots of