Persuasive Essay On My First Job

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When I turn 10, I receive the best gift ever. It was the gift of Work. At that time I knew that working was the key to adulthood and every ten year old dream was to be treated as a adult. Well..maybe it was just me but I knew that I always felt older than my age. So when my parent open up a little convenience store inside a bus company,and they gave me the opportunity to work there, I jump right onto the bandwagon and was eager to have my very first job. From age 10 to 13, I was very invested to my family business. My love for it was shown through my enthusiastic approach in the way I choose to help my dad. I remember I will always interact with the customers through personal conversations and when no one seems to be in the mood to talk, I make sure to yell out prices of the varieties of product we have.
I became so under the spell of selling that I even
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My dad was a man who follow his routine religiously, to the extent where he had the same breakfast for the past 24 years of his life. Somehow, his routine also keeps the business afloat all these years. One thing that my dad does in his routine is purchasing headphones for our store from one of his close friends. So I invested in some headphones from his friend since it was a product that was always in demand and can really help boost up the business. Right after getting a whole bunch of headphones, I made my first sell. The women was delighted with her new headphones and as she walk away to board her bus, I made sure to repeatedly thank her. Feeling content and overwhelming proud that I was finally making progress, I didn 't think the women will come storming back and demand for a refund. After trying to convince her for any other exchange, I finally felted defeated and reluctantly hand back the eight crisp dollars. It turns out I was lied to. The headphones were all broken, despite looking

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