Personal Narrative: A Career As An Adult

Since beginning at Penn Foster, it has been a challenge to balance out all my responsibilities as an adult. From working forty hours a week at my local Walmart, to volunteering a few hours of my day at the SPCA my life is full of chaos. It is not always easy to stay focused on my assignments but with a little bit of planning and some help from family members it has become much easier to stay on task and makes it seem like I am actually accomplishing something now. Twenty one days, that is how long it takes to make something a habit. Now that I have fallen a whole semester behind because I spent too much time working …show more content…
Since I have been in school for a year now you would think it has gotten easier.. wrong. I still struggle to make the ends meet each and every day. Thankfully I have a wonderful boyfriend, sister and niece that understand my schedule is full and hard to keep up with. Other than on Mondays and Tuesdays my days and nights are booked from eight a.m. until ten p.m. My Walmart schedule is one pm until ten p.m. which means at eight a.m. I am up and on my way to the SPCA, where I volunteer at. My everyday duties as a volunteer there includes walking and bathing the dogs and then to clean their kennels by giving them new toys, bedding, food and water. With the cats my duties starts with moving them to a new clean cage that already includes new toys, bedding, food, water, and a new litter box. After the cat is moved to a new cage I have to clean and set up their old one by doing the same routine. Ten a.m. is when the SPCA unlocks their doors which now I have a new expectation, which is to get our animals there new forever homes. I do not only volunteer at the shelter, I also volunteer with the shelters on some weekends. At least once a month I go out and do adoptions off campus