We are shaped by our experiences and choices. The last few weeks have been a testament to your rigor and character.
In what ways have you grown over the last 4 weeks?
What are the positive and negative implications for these areas of growth on your personal and professional life?
In general, do you tend to learn more from your successes or failures?
i think i have grown in the last few weeks because i have improved greatly in my writing skills. I have also learned that there are right and wrong things to do in the workplace and i know what are the right things to do. when it comes to my life i put my job first and i have learned how to balance my work life and personal life. this job has helped me see the success i can achieve and the disappointments that may occur. this job has helped me grow tremendously.
ReplyDeletei think that i learn more from my failures because they help me prepare for the next obstacle i have to endure. i know they will help me for the rest of this job and beyond. i feel as though my successes motivate me to have even more. Overall this job has taught me a lot and will continue to for the last two weeks.
Over the past four weeks I believed i have learned a great deal. I have learned how to meet deadlines even though i might have been told on short notice. I have also learned how to deal and keep trying with those who are difficult to work with.
ReplyDeleteThrough this i have learned to become more independant and find ways to work no matter the position I am put in. In general, i tend to learn more from my failures but when i have failed i can almost guarentee that I wont make the same mistake again.
Over the past few weeks I think I have improved my skills with co workers. The director of the daycare in which i work in did not have the best techniques on how to deal with things. When I tried talking to her about how i should improve she complained to me about the other workers. It was annoying in the way that the teachers and the director always communicate in their own language excluding everyone else from the conversation. it has increased my patience alot more than what it already was and because of this i feel like anytime i get a job now i will be ready for the unexpected. It wasnt that hard working with the kids because i have worked with other kids before. They have been the youngest group of kids that i worked with apart from my little sister. I feel like i learn more from failure than sucess because i hate being wrong or doing something wrong and it will keep bothering me until i fix it. if im sucessful i feel like i just take it for granted and dont really pay attention to what i have done. ALthough i have had fun at the daycare center i dont feel like i learned as much as i could have.
ReplyDeleteOver the past couple of weeks, I have grown to be a more mature. My language has improved a little bit, and now am I able to help anybody that needs it. Before I got this job, I was a little lazy. Now, since every day someone asks me to do something, I am not. The positive thing about having this skill is that when something has to be done, I will do it. I wont just sit there and wait for someone else to do it. The negative thing about this is that I probably wont know when to say no when I am not capable of doing the job. In general, I tend learn more from my failures more than my successes. Being successful makes me get cocky, which then leads to failure. Failing gives you something to work for. When you succeed at something, you say "oh that's great, what's next?" When you fail, it gives you motivation. You look at what you did wrong, and improve upon that.
ReplyDeleteOver the past few weeks I have learned difficult lessons of endurance and responsibility. Balancing work and personal things aside has proven to be an exhausting experience. It becomes worse when a group of 6-7 year olds decide they need to hug you while you stand with them in line under the scorching sun. I have learned that time management is much easier at school, and I value my time there much more now. I hope to take that with me when I begin school again so that it can be beneficial for the following year. Besides dealing with rambunctious children for 8 hours a day, I have faced challenges in dealing with co-workers. I have made mistakes during my job and have had to face reprimands from my supervisor. I learned that the best way to deal with a frustrated coworker (especially someone in a higher rank) is to remain silent and carefully absorb what they say so as to not do it again. Usually, I try my hardest at everything I do and attempt not to make mistakes. When I do make mistakes, I don't look upon them heavily but instead attain a positive attitude and move forward with a new task. I find that mistakes occur for a reason and if we dwell on them instead of learning and moving past them, then we will continue committing these infractures. However, I do learn from my successes as well. I love the feeling of accomplishment I get when other people compliment me on a job well done. It motivates me to move further and look for new ways to direct my ideas and abilities. This having been my first job ever, I am very satisfied with the results. Although I enjoyed the experience of working more than the actual workplace, I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to acquire the responsibilities of having a job.
ReplyDeleteOver the last 4 weeks, I think I've grown based on my performance. I've learned to become more flexible and mange my time better. It gets pretty hectic in the office sometimes dealing with a lot of things at once, but I've improved on my time management. This affected both my personal and professional life because time management skills are great accents too show when applying or working for any job. They look for people who can handle a numerous of task without getting overwhelmed. Time management is used in my personal life when I’m doing anything from school work to home duties. In Life period, you want to be able to control your time, set priorities and get the job done! I think I tend to learn more from my failures because failures are mistakes, which is my experience to learn and improve upon.
ReplyDeleteOver the last four weeks I have grown immensely. Working at The Little Gym has helped me grow in my time management skills, communication skills, and my organization. Over the past few weeks I had to make sure that I followed a very specific lesson plan because I work with children. While following this lesson plan it was very important to pay close attention to timing because it was important that the children stayed entertained. At work it is also important to talk to parents in person and over the phone which helped me grow in my communication skills. My organization was improved upon because my job requires that I help file important paper work. My growth in these past four weeks will positively affect me in the long run because all my skills that I acquired can be great additions to my resume. My acquired skills will also help me become an efficient and punctual person.
ReplyDeleteThe first week of my job, I was quiet and didn’t talk to the kids as much. I learned that basically working with kids was an interacting job. My job was to play games like uno, connect 4, and other things. My supervisor made a comment today saying that if you didn't go to sleep tired, then you didn't work. This is true. Kids are like a ball of energy. They just want fun. To them, we are fun. I learned about discipline and respect from kids. You must show that you are serious and want respect for them to respect you. I was extremely nice the first week and I got ran over. When I tried to discipline them they wouldn't respect me. I later learned to rule with an iron fist that was soft on the inside. I can be fun and silly but when play time was over, it was time to get in order. I learn a lot more from my successes in general. When I do something that the children respond well to, I know how they work. When I fail, I don’t necessarily know what went wrong. I like when I do my job and the kids listen to me, but they also have fun. I hate to yell and punish them because it's not fun for me. Overall, I have learned to be more vocal yet fun at the same time so the children respect me, but also have fun at the same time.
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ReplyDeleteOver the past four weeks I have grown to become ambiguous. Ambiguous describes my growth of four weeks at work since, I have to deal with a vast amount of people between kids and employees. The children wanting things their ways while supervisors wanting it at theirs. If I stayed close minded I would not have been able to handle situations. Such as coming to a conclusion where the kids are cheerful and I am still following the rules of my supervisors. The positive fact is that being open minded will not limit me to view ideas that I would consider different. The only negative affect of being open minded will be if I became too open minded. Thus I would not be able to create my own opinions and thoughts but relying on others. I tend to learn more from my failure and mishaps since, I profit from failure rather than success.
ReplyDeleteDuring these past weeks working at The Little Gym, I think I have grown alot. I have improved in having more energy with the kids. If you don't show energy, it's going to feed off on the children. Then that would lead to more issues. I learned how to communicate better with staff and parents. Learning how to communicate well is an important skill to have in the work field as I learned when a situation occurred at work. Positive fact is that there always needs to be communication period. I don't think there is a negative fact about communication. I got better with my time management. I would have to follow a schedule for the kids like when it is time for snack/arts and crafts time...etc. I knew from the beginning that balancing your work time and life out of work was going to be a challenge, but I worked through it. From this experience I have seen what I'm capable of doing. I feel proud of what I have done so far. Personally, I tend to learn from the failures and make them better. If I am successful at what I am doing, that pushes me to do even better but not in a way where I feel like I'm better than everyone else. These skills I've gained will make me in any job I have in the future.
ReplyDeleteOver the past four weeks at work, I've become more patient.I've become more patient dealing with kids and my co-workers as well.A the daycare I work at, the children can be irritating at times but I've ,earned that you must always have patience when dealing with them. As for the co+workers I deal with, the older teachers are very sneaky and complain to the director in their language thus exluding everyone else from the converstaion. This action of the co-workers has also improved my patience as well. Over the past weeks, I also think I've grown in strenght to have the ability to work with kids for 10 hours. Personally, I think I learn bettwr from my failures. My mistakes teach me the way to success because they imply the negative, leaving me to improve myself for the positive
ReplyDeleteThe last four weeks for me have been a huge learning experience. I learned a lot about children and working in general. During the past weeks I learned the ways and likes of the many different people at my workplace. The workers at my site are all very different and like things done differently. Whoever I am around I am able to do my job to suit the needs of whoever asked that I do what they please. I have also noticed that spme of the workers do not get along with each other and through these four weeks of work, I was able to notice what sometimes upsetted them about the other workers. With that knowledge I was able to avoid doing whatever displeased whoo I was around. I believe that one can learn a lot from successes as well as failures. When a person succeeds at something they are aware of what to do throughout the rest of their work lives. The same goes for failures; the person is aware of what not to do.
ReplyDeleteLike Marhelich, over the past 4 weeks I've learned endurance.Working an 8 hour shift everyday with 10 year olds can be a drag. Everyday there reaches a point where I am extremely tired and don't want to be bothered but I have to push through it and keep going. I've also learned to excersise patience with not only the parents and children but other people that may work in the building. In the last week alone I've had a problem with other workers of the building giving attitude and being extremely rude for no apparent reason and a problem with an outsider trying to visit one of my campers during summer camp.
ReplyDeleteEndurance and patience can be applied to almost every and any situation.When at school I can apply the two to sports and in the classroom. I don't really think patience or endurance can be used in a negative way.
ReplyDeleteI learn from both success and failures.If I had to chose I would say that I learned more from failure becuase after being in a situation that you did not want to be in,one tries extremely hard to do whatever is needed to refraim from ending up in the same situation. No one likes to set back, therefore when one is faced with a satback, they try hard to overcome their situation.
ReplyDeleteOver the last few weeks I have grown to be more focused in the work place. I have learned to make the correct adjustments when things are going on around me to be able to still complete my task. This includes things like prioritizing my work so that I will not be stressed out and learning to shut people out when needed so I can focus on what I am doing. The positive implication that this ability will have on my professional life is that I will be more efficient when I am assigned to do something. The positive effects that this will have on my personal life is that I will be able to prioritize better and not wait until the last minute to do things. The negative implications of this skill is that I can develop a tendency to get lazy and not do what I am supposed to do. I tend to learn more from my failures than my successes. When I fail I am able to focus on what I did wrong and correct them in the future.
ReplyDeleteI have learned to be more responsible and take initiative in the last four weeks. There were a couple projects that the interns have been put in charge of with little guidance. Through this I have learned to use my resources to get the job done. I have also learned how to be a quick thinker when the situation calls for it. Team work was another area that I grew in. Sometimes combining ideas to make everyone happy is difficult but we have been able to set our differences aside to get the job done. I have also learned to save money by bringing lunch sometimes instead of buying it every day. Failures tend to push me to do better than successes do although I try not to fail. When I succeed I learn from that too because I work harder to do better and add on to my success. There is always room for improvement and I try to remember that whether I succeed or fail.
ReplyDeleteOver the course of these first four weeks, I feel that have grown a lot. At the beginning of my job experience, I was extremely nervous because I was put in an environment where I had to work with strangers in order to get paid. I was worried if I would be able to get along with them and whether or not they would prevent me from being successful. Now, I feel that I get along with my fellow co-workers and they truly are helping me adapt. In general, I do feel that I am the type of person that does improve after my success because I can apply my skills needed for success later on in the future when I start working for a living.
ReplyDeleteover the past few weeks I really have grown to be more humble about certain things because, the way I am outside of this job I can not really be inside because its not appropriate to speak your mind on certain situation because u don't have that authority or power. When I first came here that's all I did speak on things I didn't like and how I felt they should be changed. In a way this is a good thing because in my personal life if u don't have humbleness then you really won't get that far meaning a whole lot of trouble is going to find u because can't control your feelings.the good thing about being humble is that no one can control you or your actions. In general I feel as if I learn from failure. There were all I did was let people down now that I am older and developed better habits things are so much better
ReplyDeletei think ive grown to be more responsible and less selfish because in the end the children comes first in everything here. whats positive about that is it is good to be responsible but the negative part of it is that not all the time you need to put people ahead of you abd treat them as if they were children. i think i tend to learn more from my failures cause i see what i've done wrong and try to improve it in the end.
ReplyDelete@shaq I agree completely with you I thought that in the beginning too. if i would get along with these people and if they would prohibit me from succeeding but I have realized that I have grown a lot and some of my co-workers have helped me. This job experience has been great. The 7 weeks I have spent here have been great and i hope that i continue to have such a great time in my last few days
ReplyDeleteover the past four weeks i have learned to adjust quickly to a kind of job that although i do not see myself doing in the future as a career is very interesting. i have learned to get out of my comfort zone and learn to politely and professionally speak with my boss of there were any misunderstandings or miscommuncations. i have learned to have a balance between my work and my personal life in which i think is crucial to have as the jobs that i try to get will be more important and more professional.
ReplyDeleteOver the last 4 weeks, I was able to get a glimpse into a profession that I may choose to do after college. Mentally, I’ve been able to be more understanding on how stressful and rewarding a job can truly be, but emotionally I grew to be more patient with difficult circumstances that I have no control over. In a quote, I would like to sum up my experience with the following: “There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.” Over these last 4 weeks, I’ve grown to understand the exact meaning of this quote because I’ve lived this. The positive aspect of my growth is that I can no longer say to anyone who works a 9 to 5, “ How can you be tired after work?” because after having this internship I can see why a job can tire someone out. However, I don’t always tend to follow the lessons I’ve learned from an experience like this one. Another positive aspect is that by being more patient it allowed me to reflect and think about a decision I made more carefully before acting upon it. Although this was a positive out come from my experience working at the Dwyer Cultural Center, I find it hard sometime to incorporate being patient in the work place because I am constantly working at a fast pace. After four weeks of working here, I only hope that I can incorporate all of the skills that I acquired there into my daily life at school in September. I generally tend to learn from both my success and failures because the successes in my life help me to focus on the positive instead of the negative in my life, and the failures allow me to grow as person who can learn to work towards a goal and to not take my successes for granted. To me life is all about the following: “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” This quote helped me to realize that in every mistake a valuable lesson is learned which can be used to turn life’s negatives into greater successes. It is in my failures that I often call on another quote as well because the following proved to hold true throughout all of my successes and failures: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
ReplyDeleteThe growth I seen in my job is how to manage my time with the kids have zest in the hard work you put in , and how to have grateful day at work with co-workers. I'll learned how to mange my time when a task has to be completed. Managing your time is important because it show the lack of responsibility you have.Another,Major growth I seen was having zest on the work I put into. Would you like to make your job boring? Well,showing the zest on your work shows how much you care about your job to your boss.Also, showing enthusiasm makes your day quicker if you put hard work into your job. Finally,working with the staff and communicating makes your job easy and helpful. Communicating with people around you shows socializing too.
ReplyDeleteThe positive and negative implications areas of growth on my personal and professional life is managing time and money. I had to manage how I am going to spend my money because mommy and daddy won't always be there for you. You need to take responsibilities and know how to manage my money. Managing money gave me a taste of the real life.Finally, I learned how to manage time when I needed to leave home, how to get to job on time,and what time to get up in the morning?
I learned more negative because at first I wasn't to sure what was needed to be done ,and I learned and as a learned I got better.All failure guided me to top to the person who I am today. So,I am glad to say," I am Glad I failed because without failure I wont be successful as the person who I am right now and I will gladly love to continue through out my school year too.'
Over the past 4 weeks, I grown more into leaving my comfort zone. This has taken a positive affect because not only am I more comfortable at public speaking (written scripts, speeches), I have learned that in different surroundings you require different skills. It has a negative affect because it shows that I was blind to not speak my mind. When you're speaking your mind, you create an impression of yourself in any surrounding that you know what you're doing. Also, you're showing a more positive side of yourself and more open to giving your opinions and listening to others. Generally, I would say that I learn more form my failures. If I fail then I am more likely to try again but this time with new knowledge and I am one step closer to succeeding.
ReplyDelete@ joddie i totally agree with you!
ReplyDeleteThe last four weeks have been a life changing experience. i have grown ; i learned what the word responsibility truly means. I learned that if you want to succeed in your job you have to put your mind and heart into it. Respect is a big part of the job, in order for the kids to respect you. You have to have respect for yourself! The positive and negative implications for these areas of growth on your personal and professional life are i have grown as a person i have seen that you have to work hard in something that you want. Not everything is handed to you. Not everyone is the same if you can work with other people you are set for life. you're not alone. I think over my experience i haven't gained any negative habits or feedback that can affect my life. my eyes have been open in preparing me in my life choice career making me want to continue to choice early child education as my major. I think i teend to learn more from my success because it shows me what am capable of but overall i can learn from my failures too.
ReplyDeleteConnie i really agree with you and all that you have said. Respect is a really big aspect in the job and I feel as though I have been respecting everyone including the fellow interns as well. this job has helped me so much as i plan to still keep a close relationship with my editor here and some of the interns as well. this job has helped me and i am glad i could work here.
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ReplyDeleteI would say i have matured in the way that i have learn to control my patients but i would say that really shows how i've grown.The positive implication for the areas of growth on my personal life is i 've learn to control my anger better which usually happens when i don't get my way .I generally learn from my successes failures in how thiers always something i can improve and make better .
ReplyDeletethere are several ways that i have grown over these past few weeks i can gladly say that i have been made into a more mature man.The positive side to being in the sip is that it had made me more aware of how hard working can be and it has made me be able to see in other peoples shoes. I tend to lean more to the side of failures.I say this because if you have nothing to correct then you have learned nothing from an experience
ReplyDeleteOver the last 4 weeks, I have become reponsible. I had to do a project and I thought I wouldnt finish but I did. It turned out well, too. I do not understand the second question. I tend to learn more from failures because i know not to make the same mistakes the next time. I also learn from successes though because i take it as an example for something else.
ReplyDeleteWow ive have really seen i guess another side of me when i reflect on my summer job. Those kids took the energy out of me everyday but yet from 9 to 5 i gave it my best. All of them told me that i was their camp mommy because i would really put them first i took this job seriously knowing its an internship i worked my hardest and showed what my abilities are through my actions lol.
ReplyDeleteWeel now for my personal life this has me thinking about what i really want to do when i grow up i see this as something positive because im taking the risk to see i dont want to do law but still i do. Kids mean a lot to me well more now dealing with all the age groups. Yet negatively i was drained everyday from all the playing ang the hugging and tugging from the kids thats the only negative thing i see. I have matured immensely i was surrounded my kids and adults and to myself i felt i was respected by one.
I have learned from my failures because u learn from you mistakes not what you do right because you have that programmed in your mind. I personally during this job have made a couple mistakes and learned to correct myself in any other situation.
@ shantelle i totally agree with you and putting kids first because i have had to do that plenty of times but its tough but yet helps you see t as in your in someone else's shoes.
ReplyDeleteIn these past four weeks i have become much more responsible and more outgoing. In my job it was important to be responsible and outgoing because you have to be real careful with the children and not let any harm happen to them . I learn to be more outgoing because i noticed that i was kinda of a role model for these little kids. I wanted to show them that you have to be proud of who you are and be yourself and not copy others around you. I thinks i tend to learn more from my failures because then i know what not to do and what i should be doing .
ReplyDeleteOver the past four weeks, I have examined what other counselors do well with the kids, and what they do not, and I have compared it to myself. I feel as if I connect with the kids, to the point where it seems as if I am a kid myself to them. This has its positives and negatives however. Usually, they listen to me, but sometimes, when I have to yell, I don't get taken seriously unless I tell the kids I am being serious. However, I have a good relationship with a lot of the kids, and I can manage to get some of the troublemakers to behave just by asking them to. However, in the past week, I decided to see how the kids at my camp would react if I acted more like the other counselors at times, taking their privileges away for misbehaving if they didn't listen etc. I think it went reasonably well.
ReplyDeleteIn general, I definitely learn more from my failures. I tend to take my successes for granted, so I do not think about what I did right to get to that point, where as with failure, I definitely think back to what I could have done to make things better.
Over the last four weeks, I have learned to be more patience and become more of a leader. When I first came into the job, I didn’t have the best relationship with my co-workers, but I have learned that even if that happens you have to put it aside because in the end it comes down to the kids. Working with 6&7 year olds has taught me patience. This is something that I thought I had, but every day presented a new problem and a way that I had to figure out how to solve it. Some positive implications that I have gained especially from the kids would be patience because I did come in the job with the mindset that I should try to be their friends, but at times when it came to telling them simple things such as sit down it was a challenge because they didn’t see me as a person that should be telling them what to do which served as a negative thing. Positive things that I have learned working with children is the fact that patience is a virtue that is going to come in handy especially if I decide to work with children. At times I would become very irritated if I told a child to do something and they wouldn’t listen or take their time doing something that I thought should be done at a pace I wanted. This would help me when coming to my personal life because I learned that some things aren’t going to be done when I want it and good things do come to those who wait. In general I learn more from my failures, but when I was told or spoken to about something my supervisor didn’t like it would bother me, which drove me to become even better so that they only saw the good things I was completing
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