Week 1 EOC: My Voice

Growing up, I found myself aspiring to be a nurse. When in high school I was pointed down the path of customer service within the hospitality industry and realized, I will only be happy being around other humans. Getting my first job at a fast food place, I was always greeting my customers at the drive through window with a smile and a welcoming voice. After 7 months of a job in this industry I knew my plan was to further my education in the hospitality industry. Instead of laying around and waiting until I turned 18 to get started on a degree, I took the initiative to push myself to graduate a year and a half early, putting myself in place to be done with high school in three and a half years (after skipping a year of junior high) so that I could begin working on a bachelor’s degree—a degree that I will have finished by age 19. As a young culinary and business fanatic, I have pushed myself to my limits. Focusing on hospitality, I work two jobs—retail and fast food—not to support myself, but to show myself that all of my hard work will eventually make for a healthy and livable lifestyle. Putting myself in the situation I am in—working two jobs, volunteering as a coach for a local high school, and going to the Art Institutes full time—I manage to find myself smiling at what I have built myself; A happy life that focuses on my happiness before others. In my industry I learn new content every day that can help me improve myself in more than one way. As I take classes to better myself in my industry, I learn more not only in the culinary industry, but the hospitality industry as a whole.