Examining Literacy During my nineteen years on this earth and my fourteen to fifteen or so years in school I have been exposed to many different forms of literacy. There are many things I am literate in, the basic being reading and writing. A few other areas I have been or am literate in are music, social media, health, problem solving, and workplace. Besides reading and writing, workplace literacy is the biggest area I am literate in. This is my biggest area because I have worked at the same job since the summer before my Junior year of High School in 2013. This job is a at a Veterinarians Office and I would, with full confidence, say that this isn’t the normal job of a high schooler. I say this based on the number of hours, amount of work,
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My listening, speaking, and critically thinking skills have benefited from working here. The way my listening skills have improved are by listening to things my boss tells me to do. Simply listening to what my boss tells me to do may seem simple, but isn’t by a long shot. When he asks us to get medicine up for an animal he just whips by it and will tell us 4-5 different medicines to get up at once, while telling us the directions for giving them too. I could be doing something completely different and he’ll pull me aside, tell me to get 4 different medications up while saying their directions, and then walk off immediately afterwards; this takes some memory. I have to count those pills out and write down the correct directions, pill type, and what the pill does for 4 different pills out of 15 + different pills we regularly use around the office. I have to be completely in tune to what he is saying to remember all of that. My speaking sills have improved because something done every day there is speaking to clients about their animals. An example is having affectively, and in terms the client would understand, get across to them what is wrong with their animals or any information they need on anything else. I can’t tell them their cat has an infection from another cat bite because of cats carry a bacterium called Pasteurella multocida, which causes infections. If I said that to a client they would be very confused …show more content…
After working there for 4 years, having a close relationship with everyone working there, working long hours into the night (until about 1am-4am doing surgeries), and knowing how to do most things there, of course I’d have a high workplace literacy. I’ve benefited in many ways from this place and I have my sponsors to thank for that. My sponsors are the ones who helped me fit in a showed me how to do things to improve my standing and the literacy for that particular
My listening, speaking, and critically thinking skills have benefited from working here. The way my listening skills have improved are by listening to things my boss tells me to do. Simply listening to what my boss tells me to do may seem simple, but isn’t by a long shot. When he asks us to get medicine up for an animal he just whips by it and will tell us 4-5 different medicines to get up at once, while telling us the directions for giving them too. I could be doing something completely different and he’ll pull me aside, tell me to get 4 different medications up while saying their directions, and then walk off immediately afterwards; this takes some memory. I have to count those pills out and write down the correct directions, pill type, and what the pill does for 4 different pills out of 15 + different pills we regularly use around the office. I have to be completely in tune to what he is saying to remember all of that. My speaking sills have improved because something done every day there is speaking to clients about their animals. An example is having affectively, and in terms the client would understand, get across to them what is wrong with their animals or any information they need on anything else. I can’t tell them their cat has an infection from another cat bite because of cats carry a bacterium called Pasteurella multocida, which causes infections. If I said that to a client they would be very confused …show more content…
After working there for 4 years, having a close relationship with everyone working there, working long hours into the night (until about 1am-4am doing surgeries), and knowing how to do most things there, of course I’d have a high workplace literacy. I’ve benefited in many ways from this place and I have my sponsors to thank for that. My sponsors are the ones who helped me fit in a showed me how to do things to improve my standing and the literacy for that particular