Personal Narrative: A Career In High School

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Three years ago I was just starting high school and was excited about starting school that year because I was just getting out of middle school, but what I didn’t realize is that high school flies by before you know it. I’m now in my last year of high school and have to start thinking about starting a career or even go to college! I’m definitely not ready to grow up but before I know it I’m going to have to start paying bills and my own phone plans and my own clothes and food, so if I wanted all of this an can afford it I’m gonna have to suck it up and grow up. Instead of going to college I have decided to go to a trade school to become an engineer or maybe even an electrician, both jobs accept high school grads. So no more little part time jobs only working 15 hours a week, its full time from now on working 40 hours plus its crazy where the time has gone. I would want to go to a trade school somewhere in Texas so I can be close to my family and friends and I already have a good feel for Texas. A trade school is pretty much a school that focuses on that one carrier choice of your choosing. For example if I was gonna be an engineer my whole schedule would just be all about engineering, they would teach you how to fix thing, math, and pretty much anything that goes along with the job. …show more content…
He also showed me a couple cool things about engineering like how to fix a car engine if there was any kind of problem and etc. And he also told me that he has a friend that works for a trade’s schools management that is also the company of the number 1 hiring management place for trade school graduates. I have a meeting with the company owner in a couple weeks so I’m very ecstatic to start working and getting paid around 35 to 50$ an

Personal Narrative: A Career In High School

From time to time over the years, I have thought about what I want to do after I get my high school diploma. A couple of months ago I realized what I wanted to do. I have decided to breed champion line collies. I already have a female champion line collie that is my pet. I realized, I could just start out breeding her, but I needed a stud dog. I got on the internet and looked for a male collie puppy. I found a champion line male that was 4 months old that I really liked, so I called to see…

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back with regret. I had the amazing ability to just check out of life. Today I don’t like to use that talent because I constantly feel like I’m missing out. The day of my high school graduation, I looked around and I realized I barely knew the kids around me. Four years had gone by, and I had no idea where they went. High school was advertised as the best years of my life, and I totally checked out. I felt like I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone, and I had been robbed of the majority…

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Personal Narrative: A Career In High School

In my four years of high school I have participated in four years of cross country running and two years each of indoor and outdoor track. I have run long distance in all of these sports. Running in high school has allowed me to develop better time management skills and a realistic affective goal setting process. Running long distance also demands discipline and perseverance and has helped me to apply these qualities to my academic and personal goals. The members of sports teams that I have been…

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recorder in first grade. I wanted to join band in middle school, but that never really caught my attention entirely to follow through. I was a meticulous person and never imaged myself to be in any kind of…

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High School is a time of growth and change. You are transitioning from being a child to being an adult. Being an adult comes with many new responsibilities. You can begin preparing for these responsibilities during your teenage years. Throughout my highschool career I prepared myself for these new responsibilities by playing sports, taking on a job, excelling at school, and being busy in general. Playing sports is a great way to prepare for college and adulthood. It teaches you many important skill…

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Most who enter high school do not know what they want to do in their future. That was not true for me. My perspective on life is what started me on my career path freshman year in high school. Sitting in my first fashion class I could not wait to see what the teacher was going to teach us or what assignments we would be given. It all started with her telling us to make a garment out of recycled materials. I was perplexed and bewildered. The project was arduous and painstaking work but I really…

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play of my high school career. Tommy ran out into his curl route while on the other side of the field Dan had started his post. I took the fake hand off and sprinted towards the sidelines. Ben scanned the field, looking for any play he could make. Dan was covered tight and Tommy was double teamed. The double team on Tommy had left me wide open outside the hash marks and would have to be the one to make the play determining everything we all worked so hard for our last 4 years of high school. I put my…

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Transcript I, personally, am proud of how my grades have looked in my high school career. I always tried my best to maintain a 3.7 or higher GPA and I feel that I have done a swell job at doing that. There have been times where I studied profusely and went to tutoring after school to make certain that I pass a test or quiz. I feel that those times were well spent because in the end I received satisfactory grades. I regret none of the hard work spent because I know that the knowledge I absorbed has…

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As my high school career comes to an end, I owe it to myself and my family to further my education. I come from immigrant parents who did everything they could to give me opportunities, opportunities that they did not have growing up in Mexico. My parents sacrificed their whole lives coming to a foreign country, only speaking spanish so that i could have this chance. I want to make my parents proud. Growing up i didn’t have a lot,being the youngest of four with immigrant parents who speak broken…

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Sitting in 9th grade pre-ap english, at Chaffin Junior High, was when I realized that english was definitely not one of my strong subjects. We started reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, I hated it. This determined the rest of my high school career. I realized that I was more of a logical thinker, and I enjoyed my math and science classes because they focused on rules and laws that were set in stone, unlike english or art that had a little bit more space to work around with. Everything had it’s…

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