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Retail Salesperson  Because I am young student, I haven’t had a lot of work experience, especially in the business field, which I plan to take part in after I graduate. However, when I was a junior in high school I briefly served as a retail salesperson at a boutique called LF. Although the title is pretty self-explanatory, I am going to briefly explain what my life was like for a few months as a salesperson.  A retail salesperson is someone who serves customers by helping them select products that they like and feel confident in. We tackle several different job responsibilities that are centered around selling as much product as we can and making sure our clients know about our new clothing arrivals and markdowns.  There are three jobs that help to sum up the responsibilities of a retail salesperson:  Stylist  Cashier  Marketer I’ll describe these positions using examples of what I did on a daily basis.  Stylist The work of a...

To be honest, when I first saw that I had to read an entire book I wasn't that excited. Immediately, I researched the three options to find out which book was the shortest and least painful to read. The first option was How I Killed Pluto by Mike Brown. After reading the book summary, I found out it was about the discovery of the tenth planet, Eris, which lead to Pluto being being demoted to a from a real planet to a “dwarf” planet. The thought of reading a scientific book brought back the nightmares of my 15 week-long class on Earthquakes I took last semester. I couldn’t survive reading about any more historic rocks. Then I looked up the second option, Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land by Kurt Timmermeister. I learned it was about how Timmermeister turned four acres of land into a profitable farm. This book was more interesting to me from a business standpoint, but I wasn’t looking forward to reading about where the food I eat comes from. Fina...

Hi, I'm Katie O'Connor. Although I was born in Boston, I moved to North Palm Beach, Florida when I was just three years old, and it is what I call "home". My days in Florida are filled with lying in the sun on the beach, which I live less than a mile from. I am going to be the chief marketing officer of a large company. I plan to achieve this goal by starting to connect myself to the marketing world now through info sessions and company visits. I am like my mom in the sense that we are both caring, driven, and love to shop. Differently, I am like my dad in the sense that he was extremely generous and had a great sense of humor, while I, too, love to give back to the community and am considered the "clown" of my friend group. However, I am unlike my parents because my mom is more organized than I am and my dad was very assertive and courageous, which I struggle with sometimes. If I were being honest, I would admit that my expectations for myself have been pre...