Occupations Abound
I have worked in multiple fields of occupation. Occupations I have
worked in include:
- [Logistics]
- [Little League Baseball Umpire]
- [Wine Industry]
- [Dairy/Coffee Production]
- [Home Appliances]
- [Web Design]
- [Warehousing]
- [Landscaping]
- [Food & Beverage]
- [Communications]
It should be said that as much as I enjoy working in new fields, I
strive toward management positions by immersing in my job duties whilst
keeping in mind all I will learn and have learned about the job to optimize
not only my time, but the time of my co-workers. I want to serve: my co-workers,
my clients/customers, and organizations that have a good mission statement; an
organization that believes in the future of there employees, in the future of the
marketplace, in their stores, their community connections. I have need to be part
of organizations that wish to succeed in every facet of business — sales,
service, organizational growth, etc.
All of the occupations I have listed are as diverse in orientation as I am as
a human being. I am moving in the direction of administration with government
positioning as a potential life goal. I love people! Life is amazing! However,
I have had my overall mentality struggles. I have worked with people that don't
have the same mindsets and mentalities for working as I do. I have experienced
the collision of diverse perspectives that inevitably led to poor working
conditions do in part to non-transparency and engagements in foul workplace
manners.
I have always strived to uphold the integrity of the customer/business
experience, the integrity of workplace functions, and that of my own
personal integrity of what I will and will not stand for. I love people!
Life is amazing! I can't spend time working to work. I was always told
growing up that if I love what I do, I never work a day in my life. The last
thing I am going to do is be a slave to a model that denigrates and
discriminates against common sense and the dignity of others.
I may have experience in a diverse number of occupations, yes. Yet, I have
mentioned that a life goal of mine is to find myself in government administration.
With knowledge in these diverse working environments, I believe I can connect
with the people from the ground up. I can use my acquired experience to push
for a better environment and a better life, to know the trades and to know
how to work with people to get results.
So, when you view the many occupations I have been in, think this: it's not
that I can't hold a job, I am looking to represent and serve with the integrity
of experience and connection with fellow occupational holders and make the lives
of those in a vast array of occupations better, with more rights, with more
opportunities to love what they do so that they never work a day in their life!
I need to think I have a plan to contribute to our communities, and I am striving
toward my goals even today.
Ethos
I cannot laud enough the Technical Ethics (ENG113)
@FLCC for teaching me the
foundations of the ethics discussion of our time today. I quickly identified
with the theory of 'virtuous ethics'. This ethics theory aligns with my spiritual
beliefs founded in Catholicism. Yes, the church I first heard the words of "One
God" was in a Holy Roman Catholic church. I can't express enough how life changing
that first day in church was for me as a person, and as a mere child. I immersed
myself in church teachings about virtuous living. Virtuous ethics — being
exposed to this ethical theory making a place in today's ethics discussion —
was, indeed, not the only ethical theory I was exposed to; and those other ethical
theories may or may not have a place in the future of today's state of our humanity.
However, there are applications for those theories discussed in the course in
business environments, although — in life outside of business — virtuous
ethics seems to me to be the only appropriate ethical theory that should govern
the human nature outside of business.
It was noted how hard it may be to apply the theory of virtuous ethics in government
administration, but I beg to differ. Virtuous ethics seems to me to be the only
ethical theory that should be applied in governmental administration to support
the general welfare of the People of such a great nation as ours. To me, the
day this is realized, the better off and more united we would be as a federalist
organization, with the effect of a "people first" agenda trickling down to lower
echelons of government — locally.
Work-life Goals
Parents, sports coachs, and grandparents have all told me to
simply be a success. It is not enough to take in the world's
knowledge in academia if not to apply that knowledge to a
profession. To be a part of, and profess, a good mission in
the realm of economics is second to none in my professional
career.
When the mission of organizations align with the organization's
behavior, there is something special about working for these
organizations — I can feel it!
Yes, I have worked in many occupational settings: and I enjoyed
professing each organizations' mission in all capacities I have
held, which leads to this work-life goal.
This work-life goal is to find myself in a position whereby I
can find myself in a position in administration with the means
to bring out the best version of my colleagues as possible.
There is something about bringing out the best in people that has
roots in church-life. My grandparents were adament that their
grandchildren connect with the One true God on a spiritual level.
I loved my grandparents, and I loved our church. When I find myself
in occupations where I have the means to bring out the best in
people, to feel a spiritual connection to the organizations' mission,
it just feels right in the moment that we are here to do good things
and to learn about ourselves, our deeper purposes in our life-journey.
