the jamaican travels to the foreign land

This blog is dedicated to my younger family and friends and it is meant to inspire them to have a good attitude towards working and striving for their goals. I had the great opportunity to work and study at Houston Community College. I worked in the Dean’s Office and I was fortunate to be trained by a former IBM executive. The Dean’s office managed the student services for over 70,000 students enrolled.    Imagine applying for a job and finding out that your work will influence 70,000 lives. It was a very exciting experience to work for the Dean of Student Services.  The Dean’s office felt like a revolving door of students. Students from diverse ethnicities from countries all over the world, ages and experiences.   70,000 was a mind   boggling number for me. But I just happened to be in the right place at the right time because the training I received I could nothave gained that anywhere else.  Unfortunately it was the time that Enron laid off a lot of employee

Would you like some fries with that?...My first Job in London....McDonald's UK in 2002 when I was 22 yrs old. I went to the UK on a student exchange visa. I thought my resume was so impressive. My resume was so impressive if I was an employer, I would hire me. I walked the streets of London with about 50 resumes. I was confident that I could work and go to Medical school. I was in the greatest city of the  world with not even 1 cent in my pocket to enjoy it. I could get no jobs. Only McDonald's was hiring. So I applied to McDonald's and was hired! Yaaay!!! Suddenly I had money in my pocket that I earned. I did not beg it. borrow it, steal it. It was the greatest feeling in the world. I even made enough to buy a £50 day trip return ticket on the Eurostar to Paris. I was even able to save some money towards paying back some of the tuition fees I owed to the University of the West Indies. One day I was at McDonald's and I spilled the entire contents if the milkshake by ac