Recession

The first Article breifly outlined how the American dollar is doing suprisingly well and how it's helping bands out a lot who tour the world. The second one explained how in Bangalore, Rock bands are being limited to the number of shows they can perform. What would've been two shows per month has been limited to two shows per six months.

Article Summary & Then Some

The Article basically stated how Paul Facella reached to be a regional vice president after working at McDonalds for 34 years. Paul also gave six benifits to a bottom-rung job; teaches you the ropes, hones your work style, refines relationship skills, creates opportunities, forms networks, and reinforces humility.
The benifits of a bottom- rung job to me is that it teaches you how to work in a job enviornment, get the hang of it, learn to be a team- player, and learn how to deal with people. All of these will help you to prepare for your future career wherever it may be. I see no negatives to a bottom- rung job, because it is meant to teach you. I guess i have a bottom rung job because I work on base at the comissary, but i don't seem to mind it that much, it's pretty easy. It teaches me how to become a better person for the future, and there are kids like me there, so i fit in fine.
As far as the store goes, It seems to be going just fine. I see no frustrations on my part and I'm thankful for it. No frustrations must mean that i'm doing what i'm suppossed to :).

In Defense to My Career Path

I know the career path that i'm doing in regards to my future occupation is right. My career path that i will take is to hopefully take general courses at a college, and end up making the important decision of which job i want when the time comes. I'd rather get some work done, instead of waiting to make up my mind about which career I want to do. My sister took some general courses at her college for an art major, but she later started a family and ended up choosing photography. As a result of her taking general courses instead of just majoring for an artist or something, she was able to have many branches of other jobs available for her.

My Future Career

The career that I want to have when I get older, is to start a band with friends, make some music, and see where it takes us. There is usually a debate about how much education you'd need for this type of career, but personally I think you must have at least a college-level education, or at least have a good understanding of the english language, or whatever you speak because somone in the band is going to have to be the lyrisict, and they'd have to have a good understanding of rhymes, sentence structures and what not. Next, you obviously have to play an instrument or have a good musical background. Bands make music, I don't understand how a band would be sucessful if they didn't have a musical backround. NO degrees, internships, certificates, or requiring you to go to a trade school is required. The life of a band can have many benifits, but that all depends on if people like your music as much as you do, and hopefully you like the music you create. Working hours, I can imagine would be debateable with the band, but im sure a lot of time would be put into it if you want to be sucessful.

Journal 2

My second day at the store was pretty enjoyable as well. The skills I think im using the most are my talking skills, and mulit-tasking. Talking, because you have to communictae to the people you work with, and as well as the people you're serving. Multi-tasking, because while you are ringing up something on the register you have to either tell someone to get the item/items while you are ringing it up, or you have to remember to go grab the stuff after youve rung it up if people are busy. Things are pretty much the same. Larry says im the only person that actually works there haha. I sure hope not.

Journal 1

The first couple of days that i ran the store were pretty enjoyable. I ended up grabbing food, and ran the register for a short period of time. I ended up meeting only one of my classmates the first day, Zack. I thought the store was pretty well organized, and the system that we have is working pretty well, I wouldn't change it. If somethings not broken, dont fix it, right? The feedback I recieved was some-what positive with the ocassional girl giving me a hard time ;) haha. But, besides that I say I had a fun first couple of days, yeah.