Recent Event Highlights: Human Resources Associate, Human Resources Assistant, and 11 more...
Created by laurhow on Dec 22, 2010
Last updated: 01/29/11 at 06:56 PM
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The main theme that I see when looking over my career is that I am a people person. My first job was in retail, working with customers. I have spent the last 5 years working with children and other adults. I don't think that I could work a job that didn't involve talking with and mingling with other people. When I started working at age 15, it was because I wanted to, now I work because I have to support my son. Working with people has taught me patience, something I need to work on maintaining with my job as a mommy.
www.regent.edu
Jared the Galleria of Jewelry
Advantages: I was able to work in a different environment than usual. I was able to meet a lot of different people, both co-workers and customers. The extra paycheck each pay day was nice.
Disadvantages: Working two jobs was tough. I was rarely home. I was stressed out alot.
www.jared.com
My son is born! Advantages: He has taught me how to love like I've never loved before. He is the most fun and awesome kid I've ever met (but I'm a little biased.) Disadvantages: His dad wasn't ready to be a dad, and his birth was the beginning of the downfall of our marriage. But, it's not Evan's fault, nor will I ever blame him for it.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Advantages: This job has been wonderful. I have met alot of great people and students. I have made a difference in the lives of children.
Disadvantages: I have worked in 3 schools in 5 years. Moving around from school to school is not really fun. I did it because I had no choice in the matter. I always heard growing up that teachers weren't paid enough; I am living proof of that now.
www.vbschools.com
Portsmouth Public Schools
http://pps.k12.va.us
SwimCo
Advantages: I was getting a paycheck.
Disadvantages: I realized halfway through the summer how much I disliked the job. Unfortunately I quit (which I hate doing), but was able to get a job with a school district later that month.
www.swimco.net
I left Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA to move back to Norfolk, VA after I got married.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Advantages: This job allowed me to hone my teaching skills and implement things I was learning in my classes. I was also able to decide which days I wanted to work.
Disadvantages: There were a few schools that I only went to once; having to endure the long day at those terrible schools was really the only disadvantage.
www.vbschools.com
Camp Hanover
Advantages: I was able to grow as a Christian while working at this camp. I was also given responsibility to take care of the pool equipment, which was a big deal to me at the time. This also allowed me the training I needed to be a pool manager the next summer.
Disadvantages: There were no disadvantages to working at an awesome Christian summer camp. I'd go back and work there again, if I wasn't too old.
www.camphanover.org
Virginia Beach City Public Schools
Advantages: This job paid me better than most of my friends. I was able to save up alot of money before I left for college.
Disadvantages: I gave up my summers and afternoons during the school year to work this job, oftentimes having to decline friends' requests to hang out.
www.vbschools.com
Harris Teeter
Advantages: I was working with people my own age at the time, so I was able to make some friends that I still am in contact with today.
Disadvantages: I worked nights and weekends, cutting into study and friend time.
www.harristeeter.com
Armed Services YMCA
Advantages: I was able to realize that there were certain age groups of children that I wanted to teach. 3 and 4 year olds were not my cup of tea at the time.
Disadvantages: I worked with a woman who was very condescending, which forced me to leave the job before I was really ready.
www.asymca.org
Hair Cuttery
Advantages: I was able to start working when I was 15 because of a work waiver I was able to obtain through school. I learned how to sweep and mop when I started this job; something I had never done before.
Disadvantages: I worked nights, while taking Advanced Placement classes, which often cut into my study time.
www.haircuttery.com
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