For those that don’t know me, I grew up in a middle class area of Southern California living in both Orange and Los Angeles County. Ever since I can remember, both of my parents have worked full time jobs to support the three of us and themselves. When it came to school, it was either scholarships or working to pay everything on your own. According to financial aid my parents make too much money to qualify and scholarships only cover so much. So as you all know I have been working full time as well as going to school full time. Which has not been an easy task to come by at all. I can tell as I’m stepping closer to medical school and getting ready to completely give everything to it, I have decided that I need to put school first before the career that I have now. Recently I took the time to sit down with my Mom to discuss school and where everything is going. I expressed to her that I was basically stressed out having to work a full time job and concentrate on school. That I wish I was able to work a part-time job and go to school, so I asked if she would be willing to pay half of my rent. She agreed with me and decided to pay half of my rent as long as I stayed in school full time. You wouldn’t believe how ecstatic I was when I realized I would be able to FINALLY take a little stress off of my shoulders by having more time to study and get homework done.
My current job does not support part-time work, so I am now on a new job search. I have sent out applications, heard back from various places, and I am going on interviews soon to explain what I can offer companies and see what they can also offer me. I am kind of nervous seeing as how I haven’t been on a job interview in about three years, but I have become comfortable being exposed to different workplaces and people while I experienced traveling to different offices with my current job. I feel like this has helped me grow as a person in the business world and an interview should probably come easy to me once I am sitting in the room answering questions and selling myself. All I hope is that this process decides to fall together with ease, because I am looking forward to be able to take more classes during the day and getting a move on with everything I need to do to reach my end goal.
