Being Friends With CoWorkers (Week 5)

I feel like it's an advantage to be friends with your co-workers. Obviously you're not always going to like everyone you work with, but having at least a few friends in the workplace would be beneficial. If you are friends with your co-workers, that means you'd have people to ask to cover your shift or it could simply make work a tad more fun. Yeah, you could ask someone you're not particularly friends with to cover a shift for you but they may be a bit more reluctant to do it and a friend may be more nice about it and do it with no complaints/hesitation. Also, if you have friends that are co-workers or make friends with co-workers after a while, it can make your work life a bit more fun. You'll get to have more fun conversations and there won't be much tension amoungst you and a co-worker you don't get along with. Even if you don't  get along with a co-worker, it may just be a bit awkward to be at work with someone you never really talk to. To me, friends in the work place if a major bonus. 

Thoughts on Teens Pressured to Choose (Week 3)

I'm still not dead set on exactly what career to go with quite yet. I know that the class of 2015 and even the class of 2016 are being pressured to make a final decision on their future career, but in all honesty I feel like we shouldn't be. Juniors and seniors range from about 15 (almost 16)-18 (maybe even 19) and to me I feel like that's too young to decide what job/career you want to do for the rest of your life. At 17 years old, I'm pressured to pick my career that I will have for the rest of my life until retirement. So far I have been deciding between teaching and cosmetology as my future career, but my mind still isn't 100% made up yet. To me, we change when we're teen becoming adults and so will our career goals/choices. At 4, girls wanted to be mermaids or princesses and boys wanted to be pirates, cowboys, and G.I Joe. At 10-12, we wanted to be vets, doctors, firefighters, rock-stars, and so on. Jump forward some years later, we're 15-16 and already getting pressured to choose our career we'll have forever. Finally, we're 17-18, feeling like we're big failures for not knowing what we want to be forever. Some of us still want to be vets, doctors, police, etc. For those of us that still don't know yet, we stress, and we start to wonder if we'll ever become anything. The good thing is, we still have a bit more time to choose what we want to do. Sometimes, teens need time to come into their shell more and become more mature before they finally make up their mind. We shouldn't be pressured to choose so soon. We're only teens.

My Writing Challenges (Week 2)

Even the best of writers have their challenges. Writing isn't always easy. Everyone has some challenges when it comes to writing, whether they like to admit it or not and that's not a bad thing. I've been writing every since I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I still have my own challenges. My personal challenges when it comes to writing is writers block and being too much of a perfectionist. I think a lot of people have a problem with writers block but, being too much of a perfectionist doesn't seem like a challenge to some. To me if my writing doesn't sound 100% perfect I can't continue to write until it sounds really good or I can't even show people my writing at all until its perfect. Hopefully one day I can get over the "being too much of perfectionist" thing, but I really don't see that happening, and I actually don't mind it continuing.