Statement Of Purpose: A Career As An Operations Student

As a student who transferred to Saint Joe to continuing schooling, doing so has been my best decision yet. Ever since my senior year in high school taking on a part time job in a factory I have enjoyed the atmosphere. A factory is a place where I was young, just coming in at the legal age of eighteen. I had many people above me tell me it was so inspiring to see someone who worked so hard for my age. Four years later, here I am still going to school and working at the same place. My job motivates me to continue my education as well as vice versa. This can be very physically and mentally exhausting at times. Up until this point, I have not taken a class where I could take the two, school, and work, and combine them to make more sense. Operations …show more content…
After taking my first exam and not preparing because I thought I would be able to do well without thinking about it, is when this realization hit. As an operations student, I understood how to relate things at work in order to help understand the material I was learning in the classroom. Doing both at the same time allowed me to participate more in class, even if it showed less in my work both places. In doing both at once, I was not able to give myself total focus of one of the other, because both became equally as important. However, doing both at once also allowed me to understand more and see things from another perspective than my fellow students as well as my co-workers. I was given this advantage in both areas and learning while doing in combination with one another. There is more than just material that from taking this class I learned how to apply in a work environment or a classroom. A lesson I can apply to other aspects of continuing my education or furthering my job experience. That is what I see as the greatest lesson from this class. Going beyond the short hand terms I have the opportunity to later reflect upon, and teaching something much more