Alex Pacquette Research Paper

“I was always a trouble maker in school and some of my teachers had my mother’s phone number on speed dial.” It is unbelievable that this statement was made by this quiet guy in front of me. His name is Alex Paquette. Alex was born in Los Angeles and he lived in Glendora for a few years. When he was five years old, his whole family moved out to Walnut Creek because his mother got a job in San Francisco. Moving from a big city to a relatively smaller town might seem like a big thing to a five-year-old child, but he felt glad instead as he no longer had to worry about the earthquakes. It was a regular morning, his house started shaking without any warning while everyone was still on bed. In the next second, he could hear that everything was falling off the shelves and his bunk bed was swaying. Luckily, they managed to rush out the house in time and no one was injured. However, most of their belongings had broken. This is the most serious earthquake Alex had experienced and probably the closest moment between life and death in his life so far.

Just like some other children, Alex was once a well-known problematic child that has created a lot of problems in school such as like jumping off the buildings and acting out in class.

One time, he even caused the bathroom flooding by flushing a girl’s pants that he found somewhere else down the toilet. Who will imagine that the naughty boy will turn into an ambitious and mature guy today in just a few years? Now, Alex is majoring in Communications at Diablo Valley College and he is going to transfer to four year university by the coming fall. After graduating from university, he is hoping to get a similar job in advertising or marketing field like his sister who is currently working for Google in San

Francisco.
Being a full-time student at DVC, the biggest struggle Alex has is to balance his life between work and studies. In fact, Alex has worked over 13 different jobs from parking cars to cashier at Baja Fresh and now he is working at Pyramid which is a restaurant in Walnut Creek. Having various work experiences, he has learned a lot about people in general as most of his jobs were customer service oriented. He is now good at dealing with difficult customers and having better understanding of work ethic. In addition, his jobs definitely helps preparing him a lot for his major as he has a lot of opportunities to practice how to build an effective communication in workplaces. Alex is enthusiastic about his career life and the reason why he keeps switching his jobs is because he wants a get a better one so that he can learn new things and also expand his social network groups. “Each job I get paid a little bit more than the previous one and it was also more enjoyable,” said by Alex.
Alex is not only a good student and responsible worker, but also plays a good role as a part of the family. Lake Shasta is a constant vacation spot for Alex’s family every year. They would take their boat out and do different kinds of watersports, fish and look for cool secret spots with waterfalls. Besides spending time with family, Alex love to play basketball and hang out with friends during his free time. Unfortunately, going to school and working all weekend leaves him little time to relax. However, he knows that his hard work will eventually get paid and every sacrifice he makes now will be worthy as the time passes by.
Through these few conversations with Alex, I realize that he is an easy going guy and the reason why I admire him is because he is willing to step out of his comfort zone and keep trying new stuff in his life. He is clear minded and he knows what he wants and what he should do in order to reach the goal. I won’t be surprised to hear his success story somewhere else maybe twenty years later about the transformation of a young troublemaker to a reputed Google advertiser.