Many people don’t know the hardships or the stress people go through to find a job. I had my first my experience of working in a real job a few weeks ago for the purpose of this project. My uncle got me the job as his assistant at his engineering shop in Oxnard. He said he would pay me eight dollars an hour and I would have to make sure not to hurt myself on one of the machines in the shop. For lunch time me and my two uncles would go out and eat at a fast food restaurant.
I would have to go in at the same time as everybody, which was eight in the morning, which for me was going to be very hard because I’m not a morning person. It was hard for me to wake up at that time and then make the drive with my dad to Oxnard, which was like a forty-minute drive because of the traffic. When I got there I was still half asleep which could be a dangerous thing so I had to get myself a cup of coffee to wake myself up. I didn’t like it very much but it did the job so I couldn’t complain after I was done it was time for me time for me to start my first day at work.
The first thing I hear when I walk into the shop is the loud machines and the cutting of steel and the radio to lighten the mood in the shop. My uncle stopped everybody so I could introduce myself to them so nobody would get confused. After we got the introduction out of the way it was finally time to start working. I looked around to see how big it was I was really out of breath because I wondered how I was going to do this all by myself. But as I started to work it didn’t feel that bad until it was lunch time because I kept thinking of how much time was left. I even asked my uncle how much I had earned for the time that I worked he told me thirty two dollars. At that moment I felt so proud of myself because there isn’t a better feeling then earning my own money.
After lunch I got back to work I had to organize all the bolts and screws in the shop. At first I was confused because I didn’t know where they went but after thirty minutes I got the hang of it and finished in two hours. All my time in the shop was spent working in the office which was like answering phone calls or organizing papers. The rest of my time working there I spent it in the shop organizing the tools. Until one of the workers offered to teach me how to use the welding machine I was excited but I had to ask my uncle for permission and he said “you have to be very careful”. When I first go to hold the torch I almost burned the table because the flame was to strong and I had to lower it but I didn’t know that so I left it like that. After that I didn’t use it again because I didn’t want to burn down the whole shop.
After the long day at work I was so tired that I just wanted to get picked up and go home and sleep. Working is not my thing but it feels good when you get the money that you worked for and dam it is very tiring. That’s how I got my first experience in working and I don’t regret it because it was an eye opener to me.
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