Personal Narrative Essay About Losing My First Job
Losing My First Job
When I was eighteen years old, I had an amazing job as a welding inspector making more money than I probably should have been for my age. I was with an amazing woman who I had just married. I was on top of the world; I thought I was set for life and nothing was going to bring me down. Then, I was suddenly struck off of my high horse. I was never really concerned about the future until I was let go from my job and I was left with no job, no money and no backup plan. As someone who was still trying to get their future plans ironed out, losing that job completely threw them all off track. I will be the first to admit that I never took that job as seriously as I should have. I was young and very inexperienced when it came to the working world. I had no idea how an actual job operated and didn’t really have the best work ethic. I never really knew how much the job actually meant to me. Honestly, I never thought about what could happen if …show more content…
If I would have seen those signs back then, I would have had an opportunity to plan for the inevitable. Seeing how the company was losing business I don’t believe there was anything I could have done to prevent my termination. However, there is a lot more that could have been done to help prepare for when it happened. Preparing for the worse is something that is usually a good idea, but is very easy thing to forget about. Especially after I began to get complacent in that situation. This event in my life really opened my eyes to some of the things that are involved in not just being adult, but a being a married adult as well. Realizing that I was working for my wife just as much as I was working for my own wellbeing was something that took a while for me to understand. The hardest part of the situation was having to explain to my family that I don’t have a job anymore. That is something that I really don’t want to have to do
When I was eighteen years old, I had an amazing job as a welding inspector making more money than I probably should have been for my age. I was with an amazing woman who I had just married. I was on top of the world; I thought I was set for life and nothing was going to bring me down. Then, I was suddenly struck off of my high horse. I was never really concerned about the future until I was let go from my job and I was left with no job, no money and no backup plan. As someone who was still trying to get their future plans ironed out, losing that job completely threw them all off track. I will be the first to admit that I never took that job as seriously as I should have. I was young and very inexperienced when it came to the working world. I had no idea how an actual job operated and didn’t really have the best work ethic. I never really knew how much the job actually meant to me. Honestly, I never thought about what could happen if …show more content…
If I would have seen those signs back then, I would have had an opportunity to plan for the inevitable. Seeing how the company was losing business I don’t believe there was anything I could have done to prevent my termination. However, there is a lot more that could have been done to help prepare for when it happened. Preparing for the worse is something that is usually a good idea, but is very easy thing to forget about. Especially after I began to get complacent in that situation. This event in my life really opened my eyes to some of the things that are involved in not just being adult, but a being a married adult as well. Realizing that I was working for my wife just as much as I was working for my own wellbeing was something that took a while for me to understand. The hardest part of the situation was having to explain to my family that I don’t have a job anymore. That is something that I really don’t want to have to do