Personal Narrative: Teen Career Connection

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This previous summer, I had the opportunity to be in a summer internship program called Teen Career Connection (TCC). Teen Career Connection is a program that provides internships to high school students and soon-to-be college students. This experience introduced me to many skills that would help me for the future. It also allowed me to experience a workspace for the first time, that pertained to the field I was interested in.

I appreciate the training week that was provided to us by Teen Career Connection to prepare us for our internships. This training week allowed us to understand the fundamentals for the workplace. This ranged from workplace etiquette, to how to address and control uncomfortable issues in the workplace. During this training week, we were taught how to professionally present ourselves to our co-workers and to our supervisors. What I appreciate the most from this training is I was able to get connected with my peers in TCC through ice breakers and other activities. These activities brought us together by allowing us to bond with each other and understand each other.
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Working at Bellevue Hospital, you a physically introduced to the workings of a hospital and how each department is connected or needed for one another. This was not something I had known, I had believed the reason for these departments were to understand the situation only in that department and not to venture out to the others. However, being here I have learned that a hospital is just like a machine every individual piece is a valuable piece that allows the machine to

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