My educational goal started in September 2014 when I first applied for admissions at Bellevue College. I had been laid off as an Administrative Design Assistant at a local staging company where I discovered the interior design world, and my passion for it. The reason I was given is that I lacked experience necessary to work alongside the principle designer, even though I was hired specifically because of my lack of design experience two years earlier.
While attending my first quarter at BC, I completed my necessary weekly job search requirements for unemployment insurance, and completed the Training Benefits application required by Employment Security Department before the 90 day deadline. Being awarded Training Benefits allowed me to …show more content…
He was the one who bought and set up the net in our yard to help me with my volleyball game so I could return to practice and make the team. It was James who demonstrated to me how important graduating from high school was, and he was there to encourage me to graduate with my classmates. It is my brother who has always been there to guide, support, and encourage me throughout my life keeping me focused on what was important.
The most recent occasion when my brother supported me was this past March 16, a week before finals, when my younger half-sister (not related to James) texted me to inform me that our father was ill in the hospital. I watched him pass away a week later from complications of pneumonia. Having been estranged from my father my entire life, the news and situation was a really big emotional shock to me. To elaborate a little, my father had five children with three different women, and I was the in-between marriages child who's three of my four siblings didn't really know I existed until 2 years …show more content…
Since I don't have any children of my own, it is of utmost importance to me that I am a positive and important influence to James' two amazing children. I was the first family member at each of their births, and have made being a part of their lives a priority of mine. I am their go-to babysitter, and have commuted hundreds of miles each year to visit with them. My husband and I have been asked to be our nephew and niece's guardian if something were to ever happen to their parents. It is now that much more important to me that I keep my momentum in school going and start my rewarding career so I can be the person I know I am and show my brother's children that you can write your own story.
In school, I often find myself working with other students helping our projects develop further and I appreciate the competition I have as a student, and realizing the competition I'll have as a candidate in the job market. I am driven by my instructors who encourage me to keep pursuing interior design as they see my skills and talents develop, my classmates who seek my help in understanding, and knowing classmates who have overcome barriers I've never known.
I have learned that asking for help is a strength, not a weakness. I have learned that I and those around me are happier when I'm doing what I love. I have learned that can do anything when I put my mind to it. I have learned that I am just as important
While attending my first quarter at BC, I completed my necessary weekly job search requirements for unemployment insurance, and completed the Training Benefits application required by Employment Security Department before the 90 day deadline. Being awarded Training Benefits allowed me to …show more content…
He was the one who bought and set up the net in our yard to help me with my volleyball game so I could return to practice and make the team. It was James who demonstrated to me how important graduating from high school was, and he was there to encourage me to graduate with my classmates. It is my brother who has always been there to guide, support, and encourage me throughout my life keeping me focused on what was important.
The most recent occasion when my brother supported me was this past March 16, a week before finals, when my younger half-sister (not related to James) texted me to inform me that our father was ill in the hospital. I watched him pass away a week later from complications of pneumonia. Having been estranged from my father my entire life, the news and situation was a really big emotional shock to me. To elaborate a little, my father had five children with three different women, and I was the in-between marriages child who's three of my four siblings didn't really know I existed until 2 years …show more content…
Since I don't have any children of my own, it is of utmost importance to me that I am a positive and important influence to James' two amazing children. I was the first family member at each of their births, and have made being a part of their lives a priority of mine. I am their go-to babysitter, and have commuted hundreds of miles each year to visit with them. My husband and I have been asked to be our nephew and niece's guardian if something were to ever happen to their parents. It is now that much more important to me that I keep my momentum in school going and start my rewarding career so I can be the person I know I am and show my brother's children that you can write your own story.
In school, I often find myself working with other students helping our projects develop further and I appreciate the competition I have as a student, and realizing the competition I'll have as a candidate in the job market. I am driven by my instructors who encourage me to keep pursuing interior design as they see my skills and talents develop, my classmates who seek my help in understanding, and knowing classmates who have overcome barriers I've never known.
I have learned that asking for help is a strength, not a weakness. I have learned that I and those around me are happier when I'm doing what I love. I have learned that can do anything when I put my mind to it. I have learned that I am just as important