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Having A Good Attitude Towards Working Is Important

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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 Enr...

My first Job in London

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...