Essay On Transition To Work

Throughout the course of our lives, we move into many different realms. This can range from going to work or moving your place of residence. There is a set amount of work that we must do in order to make this transition from one realm to another. For example, a father might have to wake his kids up in the morning and send them off to school before he goes to work where he then changes his role to be a worker instead of a father. In order to transition from one realm to another, one must undergo what is considered “boundary work”. This can range from simply a change of clothing to psychological changes that a person undergoes in order to prepare oneself for the transition between roles. From my example above, the father may have to change into his work clothes, grab his work keys, check his calendar on his phone to see if he has any important meetings to remember and drive to …show more content…
Personally, I was the type of kid who did not have to work very hard in high school, if at all, and I was still able to maintain good grades. I would consistently do homework the night before, or sometimes even the class period before, it was due. While I was aware coming in that I would have to change my habits in regards to that, it was still quite a drastic change for me. I quickly found out that it is very difficult to do homework or a paper the night before and expect a good grade in college. Not only were the assignments much more intense than they were in high school, but the strictness of the grading was even more intense. Assignments which I had expected to receive an A on, I had quickly found out, translates to usually a B if not a little lower. I have since adjusted to this drastic change by prioritizing my homework much higher than other activities and also by taking my homework, in terms of quality, much more seriously than I had done in the