Hello!! My name is Caesar Burton and I am a student at St. Martin De Porres High School. I am a part-time student intern for the wonderful program of City Year. The reason I am writing for this blog is because Meran, the program manager approached me and asked if I wanted to write for the City Year blog. Gladly, I said yes. I did not know until she asked me that there is a blog for City Year.
Cesar Burton in the CYCLE Office
As a student intern at City Year I am learning how to interact and communicate with my fellow workers in an office type setting. I have never worked in an office but I know how to do the job since I have been to so many of them in the past.
This job does not create havoc in my life and I am capable of doing this. The only thing to do, if you want to do well, is stay on task. All my co-workers are respectful and friendly to me. We make jokes and everybody laughs and doesn’t take them harshly. City Year is the ideal job for anyone. It’s a serious but fun job. If I were to walk in and everyone said hello while I walked right past, without a single word or gesture, they would think I was being disrespectful toward them. Learning to communicate in a workplace teaches people that you need to say what you need or want from others because it makes it a better place to work.
My previous job last year for my school was at Giant Eagle. This was significantly different from City Year. This was a factory setting and people came and went. I had multiple responsibilities. I printed, made orders, mailed things and received mail, filed, did scanning and other tasks you would see in a factory or warehouse. But I would say the biggest objective there was communicating, because that was the key to success. You can’t just do your job 50% of the way, because no one benefits from that. Hard work means stay on task and to fully complete the assignment.
I someday want to go to the army and serve my country; I think that Giant Eagle, a job that taught me to work hard, and City Year, a job that taught me to communicate, will both help me on that journey ahead. Also, after high school I would like to go to college and graduate. If I don’t go to the army I want to own my own business, specifically a restaurant and have a family.
Thank you City Year for helping me get closer to my goals!!!
Please take the time to read these quotes because they reflect what I’m thinking in a different perspective and also a different voice:
“The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” -J.G. Holland.
These quotes say that everyone has the gift but only you, as an individual, can make the choice to actually do the action that you have been granted. At City Year the main objective is effort. If no effort is put into your job then you might as well just go home because you have already given up.
There are actually numerous particulars like that to take into consideration. That is a great point to bring up. I offer the ideas above as normal inspiration however clearly there are questions just like the one you carry up where an important factor can be working in trustworthy good faith. I don?t know if best practices have emerged round issues like that, but I am certain that your job is clearly identified as a fair game. Each girls and boys really feel the impression of only a moment?s pleasure, for the remainder of their lives.