Personal Environmental Analysis: Personal Environment

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Personal Environmental Analysis
Germimah Clarke
MCM707-F2WW
Professor Potter
October 20, 2014

Personal Environmental Analysis

In today’s economy, it’s hard to keep up a middle-class lifestyle, and to achieve living the upper-class lifestyle is even more of a challenge. The economy still hasn’t recovered from the recession in 2008. Jobs are hard to come by, good paying jobs, especially those that offers advancement and extra bonuses. Everyone wants to stay ahead the competition; the challenge is how? It is a race, a race between young professionals with bachelor degrees, MBA’s Ph.D. and older professionals with experience, extraordinary expertise and qualifications. My name is Germimah Clarke, and my strengths have morphed
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I lost ten pounds, getting up at 4:30 am every day rushing to get to work for seven in the morning, interviews at lunch, get a quick bite on my way back, then go to another one after work since I finished work at three in the afternoon. My shift started at 7 am until 3 pm. After three months I got a job as a legal secretary at a law firm in Times Square and the atmosphere is very different. My challenges are still mostly financial, and in order to maintain a balance to pay for both my education and take care of my everyday needs, such as rent, utilities, food, clothing, etc., I must continue to work fulltime. My number one operating method to achieve my goal in obtaining my master’s degree is to create a the blueprint to show the strategies to achieving it and sticking to it. This blueprint will be incorporated in my educational goal because there are three characteristics to be a successful graduate student; they are finance, time and following instructions accurately. I am aspiring to accomplish my master’s degree in marketing and communications. The art of being highly motivated is effective in pursuing my dreams, aspirations and goals. Another challenge is remaining focused; I’m also pursuing other projects, and they sometimes get overwhelming to manage. For instance I graduated with a diploma in Radio Broadcasting and working on hosting my online radio. I came from a Radio Broadcasting background in Trinidad and Tobago, and I loved that job and I was excellent at it. Two factors influence how I got the job; my voice and being at the right place at the right time. I lasted for a year because I was excelling on the air and two male counter parts started to feel resentment and they set me up to fail. Two of the radio DJs never showed up for work, and I had to work my shift from 9 am

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