Way Back to College
College the keys of today to open the door of a brighter tomorrow Kajohn Hillman ENG 121: ENGLISH COMPOSITION I (GSC0940I) G. Denise Lance
As I sit here now and reflect back on where I was and my thought process a year ago I would have never believed that I would have ever taken the chance to back to school.This was always a dream of mine but always just a dream.I always said to myself "Kajohn you need to do something to better your life something that will make you feel fulfilled because retail isn't",I would go home and literally cry myself to sleep because I knew in my heart that there was something more and I knew I wasn't going to get it or attain it or achieve it unless I made some changes and some serious changes because I was on the road to a breakdown.I was working 70 hours a week at a place I liked which is the kindest word I use because it was a roller coaster there The establishment had great people but the customers and the requirements for the job just drained me.I worked for a company that dealt with high profile people and rich people and always thought they would be happy but to tell you the truth they weren't they were some of the most evil people and it wore on me because I started to become the person I hated most,I was becoming my own worst enemy.Retail when I started at 16 was amazing it to me was "God" there was nothing that would have phased me.Everyday I got to go to work and dress people up,everyday I got the chance to make someone look and feel so much better than the way they came in.To some extent I felt like I had given them a new life where their old one had died sounds crazy now but back then to me it was my chance to make my stamp on the world I had found my calling and I ran with it.
My retail career was booming It was growing and I was
As I sit here now and reflect back on where I was and my thought process a year ago I would have never believed that I would have ever taken the chance to back to school.This was always a dream of mine but always just a dream.I always said to myself "Kajohn you need to do something to better your life something that will make you feel fulfilled because retail isn't",I would go home and literally cry myself to sleep because I knew in my heart that there was something more and I knew I wasn't going to get it or attain it or achieve it unless I made some changes and some serious changes because I was on the road to a breakdown.I was working 70 hours a week at a place I liked which is the kindest word I use because it was a roller coaster there The establishment had great people but the customers and the requirements for the job just drained me.I worked for a company that dealt with high profile people and rich people and always thought they would be happy but to tell you the truth they weren't they were some of the most evil people and it wore on me because I started to become the person I hated most,I was becoming my own worst enemy.Retail when I started at 16 was amazing it to me was "God" there was nothing that would have phased me.Everyday I got to go to work and dress people up,everyday I got the chance to make someone look and feel so much better than the way they came in.To some extent I felt like I had given them a new life where their old one had died sounds crazy now but back then to me it was my chance to make my stamp on the world I had found my calling and I ran with it.
My retail career was booming It was growing and I was