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My Accomplishment: Personal Experience

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My Accomplishment Everyone has an accomplishment that they always will remember. The accomplishment I remember the most is when I got my first job. Getting a job makes it easy to see how adulthood is going to be. Turning into an adult can be something that is very scary. As an adult, you need a job to make money to be able to get through life. Turing into adulthood started for me with getting my first job. I will share about the time leading up to getting my first job, what my first job was like, and how it changed my life. I got my first job when I was 17 years old. My parents had been forcing me to get one for a while. I was trying to put it off for as long as I could because the idea of having a job scared me. Having to take time out …show more content…

The amount I worked affect the amount of money that I made. Working the hours that I did satisfied me because I liked the amount that my paychecks were. I loved being able to get money to start saving for college, to go shopping with, and to start buying more fast food. I didn 't have to rely on my parents are much for money anymore. Before when I would ask my parents for money to go shopping they would tell me no. They don 't always have enough for me to be able to do that, so I used my paycheck money to go shopping a lot. Although I love to shop, I am pretty good at saving my money. I went to my dad after my first paycheck and told him that I wanted to start a savings account. I thought of it all on my own. I wanted to be responsible and start saving for college a little bit. My parents bought me my first car and they always payed for everything that went along with a car. After getting the job I started to pay for my own gas. Since I was driving around to places I wanted to go, so I felt like I was wasting my parents money. After realizing how much gas cost to fill up my car I started to watch my gas tank closer and not drive as much. I didn 't want all my money to go to filling up my car with gas. I was learning responsibility of

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