Hyuk Jo
Park
(Joe)

My Work Experiences

Some people said that working place and most people working very hard for their goal forms the world. I would like to talk about my working experiences in my life and how those working experiences affect to me differently. Also, I will go to talk about my goal in my life. My working experience can be classified into four different places, which were newspaper delivery, gas station, pizza store and bakery.

My first working experience was newspaper delivery. My friend recommended me to deliver newspapers and I was very interesting about that. So, I decided to deliver newspapers and this job was very fun as much as I expected. After I worked one month, I received wage, around $200 from my manager. Even though this wage was not a lot of money, this wage was very important to me. Because, this wage was my first time to earn the money by myself. However, I could not catch my schoolwork every time and I quitted this job for my study.

When I was studying in Canada, I had a chance to working in gas station. I learned many things from this job. First of all, I learned how to handle the car very carefully and I learned how to be gentle in the front of customers. However, this job took all my studying time. I worked for six hours after school and I could not made a time to study all the time. So, I decided to quit this job for continue my study regularly.

After I moved to Vancouver from Toronto, I am working in my uncle's bakery. Since I was working in my uncle's bakery, I had to wake up at six o'clock in everyday morning expect Sunday. I must wake up in the morning no matter what time I slept last night. I fill so tired everyday until now, and I realize that work is not easy to all the people. Also, this job took all my study time during the morning and I have a hard time to catch my schoolwork. However, I have no more laziness in my action. Everything I do, I try my best and get what I want. I think this is very important to me. Because, once I become lazy, it is hard to achieve my future goal.

I believe that working experiences are very important to all the people. Many people have different working experience and different background but the work is not easy to everybody. Even I realized that work is not easy to me. Each one of working experience gave me good lessons. However, those working experience gave disadvantages too. I think, I have to control the between study and work, also I have to understand what is more important to me.

I would like to have my own small business in my future. I had some working experience and I believe that these working experiences will help my future. Also, I believe that have my own small business is my future goal and I understand how much I have to work hard for my future.

December 1999