Personal Narrative: My Alternative High School

I graduated from Hobbs alternative high school in Roby Texas, in 1997. The alternative school was for students who had been in trouble or for girls who were pregnant and needed to finish school a little sooner or at their own pace. I was not a trouble maker, nor was I pregnant. The school was offered to me as an alternative to spending another year in high school because I did not have enough credits to graduate. I had move between North Carolina and Texas in high school and did not have enough credits to graduate in Texas as where in North Carolina I did. While in high school I did work at Food Lion as a bagboy, cashier, and helped in other departments it was my first actual legitimate job I had until I graduated.
After high school I tried out for a minor league baseball team in Abilene Texas, and then worked at a restaurant called Chicken on the Run in my home town. I was mainly an assistant fry cook, food prep, and dishwasher. I began my day at chicken on the run by separating and washing …show more content…
This was my first experience working with adult offenders, however these offenders were pre-adjudicated meaning they had been charged with a crime but had not yet had a trial or been convicted by the court system. This environment was a little different than the juvenile facility in that my duty was still to maintain the safety and security of the facility however we were not posted with offenders. We patrolled assigned sections of the jail, again enforcing rules and regulations of the county jail. One of the other duties I learned at the county jail was intake and housing, I finger printed the offenders and booked them into the jail where they were assigned housing until their court date. I only worked at the jail for ten months before I felt like I needed to move on, at this point my ambition outweighed my knowledge and