My Ability To Adaptation

Being exposed to so many different challenging scenarios I realized my biggest strength or skill would have to be my ability to adapt. In 1st grade I was moved from my neighborhood elementary school which had my family and neighbors to a magnet school that fostered more successful students but was much farther from the security of familiarity, which in this case was my neighborhood and my family. In the face of adversity I was able to adapt to my circumstances and succeed. This same ability showed in my first job. Since my youth my parents endorsed a school only mindset which meant that they didn't want me to worry about getting a job, or about having to run the household for my siblings they took that burden away for me to be able to focus
on education. However, when I first got my job in order to have an income that I could use to do whatever I pleased with. It was a whole different dynamic especially if that meant I would have to work on a strangers car. This meant that someone entrusted me and my skills to meet their wants in exchange for a monetary compensation. Never have I been in a situation like this but when it came time to adapt I did so successfully. On the first day I was given a lesson on how to weld, and how to use welding in order to meet the client’s wants. By the second day I was welding a muffler onto a customer’s 1980 Mercedes 350 SL. This same ability to adapt was apparent when it came to me having to take college classes. I had to take the public bus to somewhere i’ve never been, navigate myself around a campus that was more than three times as large as my high school campus and come back without the help of my family but since I can adapt to new circumstances as well as be capable enough to use the materials I had to the best I could I was able to thrive at my college class.