Personal Statement

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Having a job seems to be a normal thing for any individual on a daily basis – a person must work in order for them to provide basic life necessity such as food and clothes. Any job can be stressful no matter what; whether doing paper works or hard labor, ‘time’ is always an enemy (deadline). But being in school at the same time having a job can be much stressful because you even have to divide your focus and attention. It’s really never been easy nowadays to find a decent job with decent benefits and salary and just enough to pay your apartment rent. My biggest stressors are work and school; it’s been so tough for me in the last year ½ to focus because I am working and going to school at the same time. It’s stressing me because I have to …show more content…

I highly foresee school as [eustress] due to my ambitions and dreams in life. I always see school as a positive thing in my life because I firmly believe that it will provide a great success in the near future. Furthermore, I also see work a [eustress], because I love what I do, and at the same time I am getting paid so that I can support myself for school. School motivates me to go to work and work motivates me to go to …show more content…

My major is history because all my life I have always been fascinated with all the great wonders of the world and obviously most of my College Courses are mostly History which it requires a hefty amount of readings, which I also enjoy and love doing. With the homework, test, quizzes, mid-term, and finals are quite stressful. Not only that, because I am taking multiple history classes at the same time – I think this class [HLTH 33] is the only non-History class I have so far. In addition, my work is far greater mentally stressful than the school; I work as an archivist in a certain department of City and County of San Francisco. It has wonderful benefits and decent salary but quite stressful as I have to deal with different people every day with sometimes unimaginable attitude, but oftentimes working with several Officers SF Law Enforcement Agencies. However, the job requires me to be able to multitask because it’s a fast-paced environment; I deal with people in person and at the same time I take phone calls. I have to quickly jot down or type things quickly. The most stressful part of the job is that every end of my shift, I have to submit a hand-written report to my supervisor regarding of what had happened throughout the day, and I still have to re-organize the

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