INTERVIEW

I enjoy talking to new people, so when Ms. Croker told the class about interviewing one of our classmates I knew it would be a fun activity. We were assigned a number and we had to look for our partners. My partners name was Anthony Oliveras, I then began my interview. He shared with me that he was born in Bakersfield but he didn’t like it due to the weather and mean people. He grew up in Oxnard and graduated in 2003. He enjoys traveling and has been to eight countries.  He is currently employed with the Boys and Girls Club as a program coordinator, but is going to school to get his degree in business.  What motivates Anthony to attend college is the idea of a better life.  He currently has a very busy schedule he works between 6 to 7 hours per day Monday thru Friday and is a full time student. His weekends are dedicated to himself. Three words that describe Anthony are dedicated, hard worker, and motivated. In 10 years he sees himself achieving his master degree in a business, administration or accounting. His motivation to continue with his education is by finishing school now, because time continues no matter what so he wants to get his degree sooner than later.  What he likes about Oxnard College is that is really close to the beach, and his dislikes is that is really hard to find parking. He believes that culture does not influence his decision in attending college. He has been thru some big surprises thru his college years. One of his experiences was that a couple years ago he took a couple business classes and stopped for a year and half, and when he went back to school he found out the classes that he had taken were no longer accredited, and had to re-take them.  I really enjoyed the activity that was given to us and really enjoyed making a new friend.

Essay #1

Rosanaid Martinez

English 101

February 13, 2013

                                                 My Hardest Decision

            Moving out was the toughest decision that I had to make at the age of 18. I lived in a small town named Palmdale and I graduated from Pete Knight high school in 2009. After high school i took a medical course in Antelope Valley University in Lancaster, CA. Since Palmdale and Lancaster are small cities located in the middle of nowhere, it was really hard to find any job openings. My parents would have to travel every day to Valencia, which was a 45 minute to an hour drive to get there and to come back. Even though I didn’t want to leave my family, I had to look for a new town that would offer better job opportunities in order to be able to continue my education.

            Since Oxnard had better job opportunities compared to Palmdale, I then decided to move to Oxnard. Also, knowing that I had an aunt that I could stay with until I found a home to stay with on my own was very beneficial. After speaking to my aunt, I then decided to let my parents know of the new decision that I was making. They were concerned for the tough decision I had made, yet they supported my decision. When I first arrived I was scared, nervous, lost, and confused. I didn’t know what the future had for me and if I was going to be able to make it on my own, or go back to my parents as a failure.

            The next day I began looking for a job. I wasn’t too familiar with the area, so I would drive my white little metro around the city and whenever I would see any medical office I would park and go into their office to drop off my resume. When I would go into offices asking if they were hiring, I came across many rude people, yet that never stopped me from going into other medical office. During my first week of being in this new city, I was driving back to my aunt’s house after a long day of searching for jobs; I was in a red light waiting patiently for the light to turn green when I heard a big “BOOM”. I got scared and immediately looked back, and noticed that I had just been rear ended by another car. Since I wanted to make sure the other person was okay, I pulled over to the side. Although the other car was a brand new, I was concerned since the person who was driving was an elderly person. He apologized and asked me if I was okay. Since we were both okay, we exchanged insurances and drove away. As I was driving, I saw a chiropractic office. Knowing that I had previous chiropractic experience, I immediately pulled into the parking lot and went in to ask if they were hiring. Luckily for me the doctor was looking for an extra employee for his office, so he asked me to leave my resume with his office manager. He then told me that he would call me after reviewing it. The next morning I received a phone call from that doctor asking me if I was available for an interview at 11:00 am. Without thinking twice I replied with a yes. At 11:00 am I walked into his office, I was feeling nervous, my palms were sweating, and I was practicing in my head what I was going to say.

            When I got called in into his office my mind went blank, all the practicing I had done had completely disappeared. He asked how I had heard about the job opening, and I told him about the car accident I was in, which led me into finding his office. He laughed and continued on with his interview. After a few question, our interview finally came to an end. He then told me that he was going to talk to his office manager and he would contact me within a couple of days.  The next day I received a phone call. It was the doctor informing me that I got the job. He also stated to me that I was going to start within the following week. I was really excited because I had only been in Oxnard for a few weeks and I had already found a job. My duties in his office were to help him with all the personal injuries reports and workers compensation. Within a few months I was given a raise and given more duties.

            After being employed for a few months, I knew I wanted to continue with my education so I decided to apply to Oxnard College. That fall I began attending school in the evenings, which led me to meeting new people and making new friends. At the time I was still living with my aunt, but I missed having my own privacy. I then knew I had to move into my own place. Even though I wasn’t living with my parents, I informed them about my new decision. I always informed them about any new decision I wanted to make because I liked to hear their personal opinion. I then made my final decision and moved into my own apartment. I have now been there for over a year. Also, now I have transferred into an even better paying job, and I’m still continuing with my education. After the entire struggle that I went through, I learned a lot. I have been on my own for over two years now. It was really hard getting to the place where I am today. I now look back to see how I started, and at the age that I started and I am proud of my accomplishments that I have achieved. I got to Oxnard with only 100 dollars in my pocket, and driving a small white old car. Now I have my own place a new car, followed with a lot of responsibilities which have made me mature and have taught me how the real world is.

            There have been many struggles that I have been through in these couple of years, for example getting sick and not having my mom close by to take care of me, missing my two little brothers, coming home to an empty house and not having homemade food. I have taken a big responsibility at a young age, but I managed to make it through, and I still continue on going for better and bigger things.

 

Texting has become very popular to almost any human being.  I believe texting was invented to get access to someone in a quick way. To communicate with someone while they were in anything such as an appointment, meeting, work and had a question that had to be addressed and was important. Now texting has moved to a different level. Many people don’t communicate now everything is being texted. Our society has become even lazy to have a conversation with someone, that they rather type it in their phones and send it. I am not going to say I dislike it I myself text all the time but I do believe it has taken a big part of our lives and is continuing in the younger generation.

Texting has taken such a big part of our lives that many people can’t wait to open a text and do it while their driving. This is a really dangerous and I have seen it myself while I drive I seen cars slightly moving to the side and when I drive next to them I see a bright light by their face.  Many accidents are caused due to texting and driving.  Texting is convenient but it has to be used properly.

Reality TV Shows

Reality TV shows are becoming a big conflict in society now a days. I rarely watch any television but when I do is really hard to find something interesting to watch, due to the fact that almost every channel now airs reality TV shows.  MTV is a channel that is known for reality T.V shows such as teen mom, the real world, jersey shore, and many more.  By these shows being aired I question myself what is their goal for these types of shows to be shown thought out the United Sates. In my opinion none of these shows rely a good message to the audience.  Being pregnant at 15 and yet still partying and doing drugs like the girl in a TV show who is well known relies a bad message to those teen moms who get influenced by TV.

Many people might not think about this but many decision of a human being could be done due to what they watch. Jersey shore which a very popular TV show that is based on partying every night and getting drunk, hooking up with girls/or boys and having no responsibilities. Many young people might think that is the right thing to do and follow their steps.  

I have seen reality shows and they could be very entertaining and funny. I sometimes spend me Sunday watching Keeping up with the Kardashians all day and once I am done I start wondering how my life would be if I was them. Yet I then come to reality and say to myself is just a show, and it might even be scripted and is not based on reality.  What really makes me mad with these cast member in these shows is they become really wealthy after their done with their shows.  For example the members for the show Teen Mom I now see them in the covers of magazines and traveling all over the world. Makes me mad due to the fact that they have no education, acted like fools and relayed bad messages yet still they get awarded for it.

I understand the reason the TV channels decide to show reality TV shows instead of any documentary or any other show is because they know that if they show documentaries or anything else that could drop ratings and could make the company lose money. They are more focus on the money instead of how this problem could be affecting many people.  Reality show have been aired for a period of time now but I do believe it has grown and do think is going to keep growing. High school teens do get influenced by all the TV shows. The reason I say this is because I have drove by schools and I see young males with their hair spiked up like Pauly D from jersey shore. We can’t control what is being aired on TV but what I do believe is that we as adults should set an example for the teens and try to explain how TV show in the long run could affect their behaviors.