Work

I started working full-time two years ago and it has taught me so much about the real world and how to be an adult.  Work and school were two distinguished entity and play fields but the more I  spend days at work, the more I see how much work is just like school.  School is defined as  a place where children go to learn according to M-W Dictionary.com.  It's place, there is no particular location that school has to be somewhere. In the same way, work can be a school and it can be a better place to learn than school sometimes.  College and universities teach theories and the application of those theories are missing in the cirriculum so as a result many graduates find it difficult to adapt to the working world.  They are unable to do the hand-on work that is needed to be a successful candidate in training and employee at work, many college graduates get terminated and even quit their jobs because of their lack of skills.  Today, employers are looking for job seekers who have the skills and may even bypass the education because skills are more beneficial to the companies.

For the past two years, work has taught me so many valuable skills that will help me to do well in future jobs. I treat my job like attending a class. I take note about how to do certain task and how to react in certain situation where I am under pressure.  There are days where I feel like a puddle of shit and do not want to talk to anyone and deal with clients (seeing over 60 clients per month can drain a person very quickly) but as a professional and an employee, it forced me to get out and do something--anything--when I feel the opposite.  Sure, school showed me how to deal with certain task but work gives me the real life and hand-on situation where school failed to.  Work is school, it's a place to learn and when I started to recognize that I am more intentional about how my personal growth and feel I have grown so much.