Time Flies

Don’t blink because before you know it, time flies fast. This is my story. When I was a little girl I remember playing school and always wanting to be the teacher. If anyone asks me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said a “teacher”. As I grew older that dream was blurry at times and other times it was forgotten. When I was in high school I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life. My years in high school just passed by without me knowing where I was heading. I knew I wanted to go to college, but I didn’t know how to enroll or who to ask. As this might seem kind of naïve, I was naïve when it came to education. I am the oldest sibling and had no one to ask for advice. My parents went to school in Mexico and only attended to the 6th grade; therefore they do not know the school system in the United States. My parents, with the best of their abilities send my brothers and me to school but that’s as far as they went. Aside, from not knowing the school system, the language barrier was an obstacle for them to be involved in school activities as well as knowing about colleges and universities; although I am honestly grateful of them giving us an education. My counselor’s at my high school were not the best. I feel that they did not give me the enough information needed, as well as me not asking questions that I should have been asking. Due to the fact that I felt that I did not have the information needed, I was lost as to how to apply to colleges or what I wanted to do in life.

During high school I started working the summer entering my junior year. It was at a jewelry-retail store named “Final Choice”. My first job thought me many skills, for example responsibility, customer service, organizational skills, how to follow orders, work ethic and flexibility. As I take all these skills with me, several of them are skills that could be use within my career. For example, customer service did not only teach me how to help people but also...