Work Ethic: A Narrative Analysis

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Narrative Writing We all started out somewhere when we had to learn something new. For a lot of people, you learn your work ethic through your parents, as well as many other traits. However, some people also do not learn many things from their parents because of one reason or another. A powerful way to really learn anything new is to experience failure in it. If you start working a new job and do something wrong, getting reprimanded will more than likely teach you to not do it that way again. I, for one, did not learn real work ethic as my parents just had trust in me to do what was considered right. For what it’s worth, I did do that for a while, but, life always changes. In the 7th grade or so, I started to lack on my homework …show more content…
This prevents any problems from springing up in reaction to the original issue. In my case, I did not tackle the issue of procrastination when I started to do it in the 7th grade. First it started with my English classes, I just didn’t want to put in the time to reading and only managed to get by through screening of the text and websites such as Sparknotes. Although my grade remained high, it still suffered due to the quality of work that I was putting in. After english, I started to lack in other core classes, math and science. By the end of the year, I got by with all A’s in my classes, which wasn’t all that difficult since it was just 7th grade. However, the difficulty of work does go up as your time through school goes …show more content…
If you were to find yourself in a situation such as my own, a simple plan for getting the work done would have made it easier on myself. Something that I can only change for my future endeavours, nothing can be changed in the past. However, even with this, I believe that anyone can change in the middle of a habit, such as mine. Even if you have the strangest and most set in stone habits, you can change any time you actually want to. Time and dedication are a big part of doing much of anything in our lives. As I said, if I could go back, I would put more time in on the homework earlier on, to not get so far behind. But, as they always say, hindsight is

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