Personal Narrative: Business Summer Burial Program
Over the summer I applied to be in a Business summer apprenticeship program at the Metro Achievement Center located in Chicago more specifically Greek town. With hopes to learn as much as I could and test whether business was something I could see myself doing for the long run I started my first day at the program. After a few days of getting to know my other classmates and getting to know what our routine would be like we started to learn and as you could already guess I loved it. The program taught us things from how complex it could be to write a professional email but it also gave us the opportunity to take charge and start our very own small business which consisted of five members who all had an important role in order to make our business
succeeded. We were given the task to come up with a product that we could sell to the other summer programs that were hosted at the Center. My group sold handmade bracelets, our business was called “City Bracelets- where you embrace the charm” even with the cheesy name and all I learned so much. I learned what it takes to be a good leader being the Vice President of our Business I didn’t specifically have a role and it was more of a role in which I helped everyone with whatever they needed and it gave me an amazing insight in being able to understand every part of the business that makes a team and product successful. I loved how every single position whether it was figuring out the logistics of where to set up our table, from promoting our product and ordering the right amount of products in order to stay in budget. It all had to come together in order to make the business work. There were many obstacles that my team and I faced but they all helped us understand what we could do better next time and what we shouldn’t do again. A dream of mine is to have my very own non-profit organization where I can help people who have disabilities and their families. I would hope that having a business background would make this not a dream but a goal I can accomplish. Alongside this goal I would also like to work in the fashion or beauty industry because those two things are another passion of mine and being able to make a product or a brand successful would be a wonderful accomplishment.
succeeded. We were given the task to come up with a product that we could sell to the other summer programs that were hosted at the Center. My group sold handmade bracelets, our business was called “City Bracelets- where you embrace the charm” even with the cheesy name and all I learned so much. I learned what it takes to be a good leader being the Vice President of our Business I didn’t specifically have a role and it was more of a role in which I helped everyone with whatever they needed and it gave me an amazing insight in being able to understand every part of the business that makes a team and product successful. I loved how every single position whether it was figuring out the logistics of where to set up our table, from promoting our product and ordering the right amount of products in order to stay in budget. It all had to come together in order to make the business work. There were many obstacles that my team and I faced but they all helped us understand what we could do better next time and what we shouldn’t do again. A dream of mine is to have my very own non-profit organization where I can help people who have disabilities and their families. I would hope that having a business background would make this not a dream but a goal I can accomplish. Alongside this goal I would also like to work in the fashion or beauty industry because those two things are another passion of mine and being able to make a product or a brand successful would be a wonderful accomplishment.