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Let's Talk About Jobs
First off, let me give you an overview of myself so you get an idea of where I'm coming from. I am a 22 year old female living in Southern California, graduated high school in 2013 and went to a community college for two years before eventually dropping out due to stress and anxiety. I volunteer my time at the local garden maintaining the demonstration plot and helping with their monthly cooking classes, and I help out with events at a wildlife sanctuary whenever they need me. So I've got at least three years kitchen and team experience. When I'm not at the garden or sanctuary I'm at home on Discord—a chatting platform much like Skype but built for gamers. I'm a moderator—I enforce the rules and make sure nothing inappropriate is posted—for three YouTubers and am in charge of anywhere from 5–600 people at any time and over 2000 people in general. I guess you could say it's giving me communication skills. I've only been doing that for about a year and a half.
By Lane Vaughn8 years ago in Journal
What It's Like to Be a First-Year Uni Student
It's extremely hard. That's what your high school teachers will tell you. They'll tell you how you'll have to learn to balance your time. That you can't party all night, sleep all day, skip lectures, and expect to pass with flying colours. For the most part, they're right.
By Sydney Faith8 years ago in Education
Why I Hate Marketing Gurus
After I finished my first feature film, I had a slight idea of how to market or sell my film; but, since we are in the golden age of the internet, where you can learn anything either by paying on websites like Lynda.com or on Youtube for free, I decided to learn marketing and online marketing.
By Adrian A. Pedrin V.8 years ago in Journal
Best Gifts for Your Coworkers
When it comes to gift giving, sometimes buying someone a gift can become an actual struggle. There are moments where you don’t exactly know the person’s interests or what exactly she/he needs in her life. Sure, buying close family members and friends gifts is an easy task to do, but for coworkers… not the simplest of things. Even though you see your coworkers about 40 hours a week, you sometimes don’t actually know much about them. Other than their pet peeves that you constantly do or how much you know about their cats that they keep bringing up (and you couldn't care any more) — buying your coworkers gifts is tough sometimes, and you're certainly not the only one who thinks this.
By C.C. Curtis8 years ago in Journal
How To Not Suck As A Lyft/Uber Driver
I've been using Lyft a lot over the past few months, both as a driver and as a passenger, and there are things I've noticed: things that work and things that do not, things that warrant five stars, and things that do not. (But let's be honest — I give five stars pretty much no matter what. If I get there without dying or becoming seriously maimed or getting sexually harassed, you get five stars, even though it's very clear why you're one bad review from suspension, Jason.)
By Shelby Taylor8 years ago in Journal
Early Graduation Was Almost Not Worth It
There was no way I was going to make it through another year at this school. There was no way in hell that I could handle being herded into class rooms along with the other sheep. Sitting in hard plastic desks struggling to stay awake and fighting the endless daydreams in order to get work done that I didn't care about and knew I would never do again after school had ended. I'll never need to calculate a hypotenuse or annotate a text again. I couldn't handle another year of eating the flavorless food that almost seems to purposely make students irritable and lethargic. I couldn't handle any more budget cuts to my art and cooking classes. I couldn't handle reading The Catcher in the Rye again. I couldn't handle a third principal coming in and disrupting what I had become accustomed to for the third time. In fact I am not the only student who feels this way. Since I've been in high school there have been countless protests and 2 walk outs, one of which happened just last week because to us, nobody seems to care about us and what we need when it comes to our education.
By Aspinrose Billings8 years ago in Education
Read a Book... And Write in It
As a schoolchild, my classmates and I were instructed NOT to write in our books. This, we were routinely told, was because at the end of the school year, we would have to turn in our books to our teachers for their inspection. If we were good students and our books were in acceptable enough shape and if we did not bang them up too bad, we could return the books without incident and without our parents getting fined money. Of course, we never inherited the books in perfect condition in the first place and there was some elaborate — and mysterious — grading scale the teachers used to keep tabs on all of this.
By Mike Messier8 years ago in Education
