The best job I’ve had is the job that I am currently working at right now.  I work at UPS (United Postal Service) as a lost prevention agent.  It’s a perk that I’m able to enjoy my job and be paid.

Some of the responsibilities that I have on a nightly basis is: checking employees and visitors in and out the building, relieving my co-workers for their first breaks, cutting the seals off of the trailers that contain packages coming from different cities, writing a report about the trailers I cut in a seal audit report, assuring that no one is stealing or causing any harm, and checking individuals out when they leave. 

The reason I feel that it’s so great because of my co-workers, especially those who I work with who is not actually my co-workers.  I’ve gain friendships their job; I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s my job that makes it so enjoyable.  It’s the people that I work with, they’re good company to keep, very sweet, humorous, and honest people.

Working at UPS has enhanced my communication skills with others; I remember I was very demure when I started.  Everyone was so friendly and kind to me.  Being dependable has played a major role in what I’ve learned also.  Helping out when the job was short on hand, always had me first for the OT lineup.

I’ve also worked volunteering with my church’s youth funding at special events at sporting events and concerts, as a cashier at the Dugout Food Stand.  I’ve had many countless and memorable moments at those events.

I enjoyed meeting all the new people from all of the country, and seeing the excitement they had to see the game or concert begin. 

Freakonomics

Freakonomics Reader

The title of the book we received is “Freakonomics”; I thought the first chapter was very boring, I was not too engaged with what it was stating.  I would highlight comments or sentences that stood out, write questions in the margins, and put question marks when I wasn’t too sure of what was going on.  I would bring those topics up during my reading discussions, and with the whole class.  It gave me a lot of clarity of others opinions, and another outlook on the chapter.

Annotating is a great while reading; it’s been exhilarating for me.  I suggest others to annotate while reading, it’s a way to summarize, mark what interested you, and creating questions, and learning new words.  There was not big strategy with how I kept up with the book.  Looking for anything that would catch my eye and read from them, I would then go back and read the chapter from the beginning to get clarity of what was going on. 

I usually would read on the bus when going to class, or leaving class.  But I mainly got a majority of my reading down at work, I would go through a few pages depending how engaged I was with the chapter.  If I felt the chapter was very interesting I would complete the full chapter.