My next experience

I remember telling my advisers that I feel like an astronaut walking to the shuttle for the spaceship. I feel the straps on my shoulders, and the blank stare into the sky while laying back. I am ready for blast-off and I am truly prepared for the worse. I can definitely see my first day as punctual, creative, and eager character with a coffee stain all over my white shirt. My over prepared self will embarrass myself, but I do not think the other employees will look at me differently because everyone has a difficult first day. So I don’t care much for anxieties now during the L&D phase because I don’t need to do anything stressful but watch and learn. I think this approach will let manger know I’m here for only one reason; to learn during changing environments. The only think I want to prove at my internship to my manger and fellow interns is my need to work in an area that craves creativity and hard work, because that will carry my reputation further than I know. Nevertheless, I do not want a recommendation but the opportunity to further my skills in the tech atmosphere because there is no enthusiastic leave form my internship but pleasurable stay.   

Entering the New Year

I am an Aquarius and the horoscope for this year says, I will have a good year and that I’ll make somewhere my new home but the first 3 months will be horrible. I am guess they are describing work as my new home and first 3 months will be horrible because I'll learn how to adapt into a new working environment. It is interesting to see how a horoscope interpretation works because the people who write horoscopes have to give a general fortune for many people with different backgrounds. Hence how can people who wrote my horoscope assume that the general public who is also an Aquarius can all be connected? Well in reality everyone is connected and reading the horoscope is one device that links everyone together. Believe it or not, I used to read my horoscope every day, not to be prepared for the future, but to have an understanding of what my environment will be with other signs near me. The reason for this is because one person’s zodiac sign is written to connect with another person’s zodiac sign. This means that our life is already written and every step we take is unoriginal. However, horoscopes are sometimes wrong, and in that event, you can choose your own direction that makes you, you. But the real interesting part about horoscopes is that it was here for ages and with what horoscope people found with each Zodiac signs is that people were born in a significant season that is identical to their personality as an adult. For example if you are born in the hot month of August, you are tend to be a little more stubborn than most people because as a baby in the month of August, you’ll experience life to be hot and uncomfortable. All things considered, people have been around long enough to understand and pin-point who we are when it comes down to astrology.

To live the law of love without the rules of life

Sometimes I put life, time and my mind on pause so I can take a minute to stare at the afternoon’s sunlight illuminating the particles floating in the room. Watching these particles move slowly is one of the last simple pleasures in my rushed life. The feeling is relaxing like swimming in the ocean or listening to fire. I can say this is the moment when you feel suddenly brain dead with an unconscious smile. Everything is unfocused, unreal, and silent because of the pure intensity of nothingness. I swear in this perspective I can discover answers to questions I didn’t even know I had. Once I woke up from zoning out, I can definitely understand how it feels to drift in space. I’m amongst the stars and the atmosphere is as significant as drizzle.  

The gift of giving

Yesterday was Christmas and I did not get my girlfriend anything even though she got me three gifts. The one reason for this is because my family does Secret Santa, where you pick one name from a hat and that’s the person you have to give gifts to for Christmas, and I had a $150 budget because of gas, coffee, and bus fair. It looks simple but in reality money disappears so quickly. I ended getting my Secret Santa their gift, but I got it the day before Christmas and I did not have enough time to buy something for my girlfriend because everything closed early on Christmas Eve. Despite my negligence, I knew the gift I gave my Secret Santa shows what kind of person my girlfriend and I are. Nevertheless, today I did not go out for the “after Christmas sales”, to get my girlfriend a present, because I plan to take my girlfriend out on an old fashion date, instead of giving a gift.

Intership Readiness

I am ready for internship because I am not doing this for money but for the act of collaborating with others and letting my ideas take action. However, I do speak out about making a million dollars in the future because I feel that is the landmark of doing something important in life. Since having collaboration as my passion I have to be efficient as well as understanding towards others in any environment. For example, one of my main achievements is working on articulating my words so that my other colleagues can understand my creativeness. Another reason towards my internship readiness is demonstrating “think before you talk” by actually writing down the words before speaking them. Other than the usually acts of activeness, and kindness, I already do during the learning and developing phase, I have to do a lot more to be successful such as taking the initiative of reading the book before the assigned reading in order to be that person teachers recommend for answers.

Past Jobs

The worst job I ever had was being a busser at Hanna Zen sushi restaurant. What a stereotypical job for a Hispanic person to do; bussing tables. Before this job I remembered saying that I will never become a buser for any restaurant but I still did this backbreaking work because I was not planning to stay, although I worked there for a whole year. To bifurcate, I was there only as a buser who cannot contribute, meaning all I can do is pick up dishes, clean the whole facility, setting up the tables, and help the server/waiters, who just takes orders, all for 2% of the entire tip and minimum wage. Even though it was hard physical work, what made me upset the most about this job was that they did not take any consideration of my educational background of communication and marketing which they needed severely because no customers would come. However, from this experience I did learned how to talk to different people with multicultural backgrounds which helps me with any internship because learned how to accommodate the general public.

As for my best job, before learning and development at Year Up Bay Area, I was a California State University Bakersfield’s (CSUB) mail room employee. One of the main aspects of delivering the mail is the friendliness of people. Working was like going to say, “Hi” to my associates not co-workers and for my co-workers, they were more like friends because we went out all together for lunch and talk about movies, shows and ideas while keeping that work environment courteous towards others. The one thing I learned about working in the mail room is being friendly towards everyone while I was alone in Bakersfield. By interacting with different staff and having that friendliness towards other I have prepared myself for the real world.

The Frozen Assets

Looking at the Frozen Assets mural by Diego Rivera and the Occupy Movement, I definitely see a connection of separation. I see this in both ideas because both are stating there is America literally on top the actual America. The specific example of this would be the Occupy Movement’s slogan, “We are the 99%” because the one percent of Americans “run” Americans verses the people living in the world. Another example would be from Rivera’s mural having an upper part of the mural with buildings the upper-class decided to have and the lower part with homelessness and empty banks that the lower-class had to live though. In addition to separation, the mural shows a different color design which has brighter colors on the upper part of the mural while the lower part is made with dark colors.  For this reason, I suspect that back then people were dirt poor and while the wealthy people are making the big changes to the world; bring different colors to America. I also see this same color design with the Occupy Movement having the upper-class people wearing plain dark business colors and the lower-class wearing more colorful attire. As a result, in the 80 years of the same dilemma, I see how back then and today, the upper-class people are doing things without everyone’s involvement and having the lower-class deal with the consequences.  However, both parties did construct inspiration for both generations by creating a revolutionary idea of change. This is a reality of upper-class people is becoming a lifestyle no one can fit and causing the lower-class to suffer with debt.