I am 38 years old and have spent much of my life around and earning a living in the construction industry. My first job was doing basic secretarial work for my step father & Kajima International during the summer of my 9th grade year. This was 1994, and even at this time Kajima had strict safety standards which limited my exposure to the site during normal hours. After helping build our family home, I began to want to learn more about the construction trades. In late 1997, after high school, I went back to work for my stepfather at Winter Construction as a Laborer.
Being an "old school" Superintendent he was a hard man to work for at times, but working for him afforded opportunities, and information, that would have taken me much longer to
My employment in construction began when I was seventeen-years old working at a local golf course. I had the opportunity to help rebuild and enhance a Golf Pro Shop to improve the quality of the members’ experience. My work started with the plumbing, and I
as a hired hand. I worked a virity of hours at the Dariy Queen usually
As I grew up, I continued to help my family with work, such as helping my father grow his small business of Carpet Cleaning.
“[Rundquist] cared about [his students] and pushed them at the same time,” principal Steve Passinault said. "He was demanding, but the students would do anything for him. His teaching was masterful in every way."
1972: After graduating from Homestead High School in Los Altos, Jobs applies to Reed college in Portland, Oregon, but left after a semester.
After being on my own for a year, I decided I wanted to go back to school. At first, I chose to start getting a certification in insurance. It was a self-study program, and I had to grasp the information then take a standardized proctored exam. I began one course and gave myself a year to study it and take the exam after being unsuccessful; I went back to the drawing board. Six months later, I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do. I then began looking at my benefits package at work, and I started asking my coworkers what they were doing. In just asking around, I found Ashford University. Almost two years after being on my own and making the decision to return to school, I finally found Ashford University, I applied around Thanksgiving and began at the beginning of
My life is like a novel, not one of that with a twist and turn at every corner, however a more unflustered yet compelling story. Since the beginning of my student career the one quality that has been persistent with me would have to be my fearless work ethic. While many friends of mine in my childhood would be reading Marvel Comics I would be the lone one reading on Pythagorean’s Theorem or the anatomy of dinosaurs. School has not been the easiest of tasks, and not taking any on level classes during my highschool tenure doesn't help. While many of my friends today go out shopping or catching movie on a Friday night, I would stay home and get ahead on projects or reports due the next week. Although doing homework on a Friday night is not
Perhaps my most gratifying research experience was also my biggest research obstacle. During my early undergraduate research in Professor Paul Sternberg’s Lab, I had grown to learn how to communicate science, determine the important experiments to conduct and obtain the necessary laboratory skills. These experiences came from my project in engineering C. elegans to express a photosensitive archaea proton pump in the mitochondrial membrane to explore how we can engineer a more efficient strain of C. elegans. In this process, I learned to construct plasmids using molecular biology and learned to introduce these genetic changes by injections and genetic crosses. Each successive step, I learned to troubleshoot and optimize. The hardest task to
What I did for work. I worked for Tom Mathis this summer driving around his kids. I took them to the pool, and picked them up from practices. I got paid 100$ a week for helping with Tom’s kids. It was a fun job, but I would like to do something different next summer.
Have you ever worked with a job that requires driving a diesel around? Like sometimes it goes “ RaaaaaaaRaRaRaaaaaaaa”. The first time I saw him I wasn’t sure if work will be hard and difficult because he didn't seem the most happiest or the most energetic person. But he had Blonde hair, blue eyes. About 6 foot tall. Pretty much the same body type as me but little more on the heavy side. He wore a pair of black boots that looked good enough for work boots and that will hold out for at least 3 years. He had a pair of white oaks that he doesn't admit wearing them. Of course he had to wear jeans and our official shirts and hats to work. I been told later he has been working there for t least a month since i was gone for school. Outside was warm and I already had some work in, the
I have had several places of employment since completing high school in Media, Pennsylvania in 2009. During high school I worked at a retirement home named, Rose Tree Place where I learned compassion, patience and was lucky enough to meet some very amazing individuals. Upon graduation from high school I moved from Media, PA to West Chester, PA which is about a 30-minute drive. This 30-minute commute was not an option for me, so I left Rose Tree Place about a month after graduation and found a job at a convenience store/gas station named Wawa, as a cashier. I truly enjoyed working at Wawa and learned many valuable skills such as speed, flexibility, customer service and the art of small talk. I was employed with Wawa for the 8 months following graduation. My next employment came on May 24, 2010 when I left my home in West Chester for Marine Corps Recruit Depo, Parris Island, South Carolina for the grueling 3-month long recruit training.
I was a certified child care provider, providing care or so was called babysitting for families in Hilo. I worked especially on the weekends and after class on weekdays.
When turned 14, I nervously walked into the REC office in the harbour, application in hand. They sat me down and asked a few questions, and I had gotten my first job as a skate instructor. That led into working a gymnastics program for toddlers, which I still work. Working with REC for 2 years aided me in getting a job at Sobeys when I was 16. Working the two jobs is not always the easiest, but I make it work, because I am making my way further into the system, which may help me start a career later on in my life. I would not change working my two jobs for anything in the world right now. I am making money, but more importantly I am doing something that I
Ultimately I want to run a renovation business from my home with my husband. I already have general knowledge of the construction industry and believe that if I can secure employment at a construction company within five years I can learn enough about the various components of administration that I can take care of the paperwork that my husband hates, while he takes care of the construction that he loves. I am controlled in stressful situations, am always planning ahead and quick with decisions. My experience working in so many different fields has given me great communication skills, especially in regards to understanding my audience; which from a negotiation and management standpoint is invaluable.
Up until about a pair months ago I totally felt like I was opening off in