...famous, Cowell held down several brief jobs; quantity surveyor, a job at Tesco (he never made it past the interview), trainee law clerk, a runner, a waiter, a job in the EMI mailroom, and an estate agency where he had his worst job ever as a canvasser. Trade Mark Brutally honest Solid-coloured shirts and sweaters (usually white, grey or black) with jeans. Dropped out of school at the age of 16. A TV commercial proposal was made to him by his agent who told him that he would be paid $1m for a day's work (the good news). When Cowell asked about the bad news, he was informed that the commercial was for "Viagra". Cowell reneged (interview: "Piers Morgan Tonight: Episode dated 5 April 2011" (2011)). [2010] A dog lover. A woman broke into his London home in 2011. Susan Boyle's star-making audition was one of Cowell's favourite moments on Britain's Got Talent (2009). Has a waxwork figure in Madame Tussauds. Before becoming famous, Cowell held down several brief jobs; quantity surveyor, a job at Tesco (he never made it past the interview), trainee law clerk, a runner, a waiter, a job in the EMI mailroom, and an estate agency where he had his worst job ever as a canvasser. [To the infamous Keith who sang a horrible rendering of 'Like a Virgin'] "Keith, last year I described someone as being the worst singer in America. I think you're possibly the worst singer in the world ... I've never, ever heard anything like that in my life, ever." I don't want babies the same way...
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...My Worst Job Thinking over all the jobs I have ever had, I realized that there are many ways a job can be unpleasant. Many circumstances can cause a work experience to be bad, including long hours, unpleasant co-workers, and bad working conditions. The worst job I ever had was when I worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant, or CNA for short. This job was very difficult for my family and me. I had just had my first child three months prior to beginning to work at a Nursing home that was about thirty minutes from my house. As one of the newer hires, I was automatically put on third shift, which was eleven p.m. to seven a.m. Between the drive and working the night shift, I was always exhausted. As a new mom, I found it extremely difficult being away from my child during the night. My husband had to take over the responsibility of caring for our infant son during the nights I worked. He worked second shift at a nearby youth detention center, so when he was leaving for work in the afternoon, I was just waking up. It was difficult to adjust to being awake all night and then sleeping during the day. The hours were a significant stressor on me, as well as my marriage. My son went to my mom’s house when I had to go to work. Then my husband picked him up when he got off work. Our conflicting work schedules made working at the nursing home a very unpleasant experience because of the hardships on my family. Working as a CNA is a specific calling that most people aren’t...
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...Luis Cardenas’ Career Possibilities Have you ever been given the chance to pick between a job that will keep you financially set for life or a job that will satisfy you as a career and as a passion? Luis had a passion for teaching ever since he was in high school teaching crafts to 10 year old kids. “He decided to go into teaching nine years ago, between his sophomore and junior years in high school”(Integ, pg 64). Luis was raised in the largest city of the state, where he has deep roots with friends and family. For half a year he had felt like a slave as a paralegal in a large law firm, and another half year as a junior executive has only made him realize his desire to become a teacher. Finally after completing his B.A and receiving his teaching credentials, he decided to apply for a part time substitute teaching position until something came up. Soon because of the many retirements and the good impression he had earned with the school where he worked, they offered him a full-time teaching job. However, Sunset National Bank, a place where he applied, is offering him a job over 15 other candidates, “Sunset National Bank has chosen him over 15 other candidates for the trainee position because of his excellent academic background, fine references from his previous jobs, and outstanding interview” (Integ pg, 64) . This opportunity would give him a slighter better paying salary, starting at $38,000 a year. In addition to his pay at the bank, where he’ll be promoted to loan...
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...Depression & Recession Have you ever noticed how history seems to repeat itself? Have you ever heard someone say that we study the past to prevent it from happening again? Well if you take a look at history we are repeating it, with the Great Depression right now we are in what is known as the Great Recession, there are some similarities along with differences. The Great Depression sent many Americans into an economic crisis unlike any the county has experienced before. With this downturn it put millions of hardworking people into poverty, and took about a decade for the market and federal government to restore wealth. The Great Recession was the 2nd worst economic situation to happen to the United States, which started with housing market crash. The Great Depression is similar to the current United States economic/ financial situation. In 1929 a worldwide economic depression happened known as the Great Depression which lasted 10 years. In the 20's the United States had a thriving economy people were buying stocks without any worry. On September 3, 1929, the stocks peaked and then started to drop, on October 29, 1929 the stock market had crashed and millions of people have lost some if not all their money in the stocks. With the United States government stock market being the center for all countries all other countries were affected from it as well. Unlike today's economy banks did not have insure deposits so when banks failed all people lost money. With the loss of money...
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...The pain of knowing my family is still in Haiti is the worst pain I have ever felt. It’s worse than the sores on my hands from the splinters of my rake, even worse than the beatings and burns I got from the Haiti officials. This (ms mac said identify) is by far the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. While I was in Haiti, I befriended the American missionaries; I had no idea of the price I would pay because of our friendship. After attackers dragged me out of my house and beat me almost to death, they proceeded in burning my face to give me the mark of a traitor. The next day the U. S. Coastguard found me almost dead. They took me out of Haiti and brought me to America. This would be wonderful if only I had my wife and three children here with me. It has been six long, lonely years since I have seen them. The first month in this new country I used a borrowed lawnmower to cut a neighbor’s grass. The people around town started asking me to do the same for them. When I made enough money, I bought a new lawnmower and gave it to the man who had let me borrow his; it was my way of saying thank you. Even though I send most of the money I make back to my family, I did manage to save up enough for a used truck. With the truck came new opportunities, which widened the range of lawns I could mow. When winter came, my small mowing operation became obsolete. I found myself looking in the newspaper for new jobs. I asked myself, “Who will hire an illegal Haitian...
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...beginning. I was called daddy’s Princess. When he came into my family’s life it was like a true Cinderella story. In his eyes I was a Princess. He was a tall man when he walked into the room he was larger than life. He was a robust man so full of life that is why it is so hard to believe that a heart attack took him away from me. I still feel all the love that he had for me. The memory of him still swirls around in my head and in my heart. He gave me a since of self and a since of inner strength. He adored us all but I still was his princess myself esteem is strong due to his presence in my life. He was a hard working man and he was happy to provide for my family. I respected him for that. He was a lineman for Verizon. Which his job was to go out and fix broken telephone poles and down phone lines in all kinds of weather. He did have to leave during the night if there was a power outage. He ran the lines that brought power, cable, and Internet back up. So if a tree fell during the night onto a pole line he would have to get up and leave for work. One Christmas he was working in a city because of the big ice storm we had back in 2009. So he was not able to come home so he called us that night and gave us the bad news and said” he could not make it home for Christmas”. Well a few hours later he had called abck and told my mom he was going to be able to come home for a few hours. He parked his truck on the side of the house and walked down the alley. My mom opened up...
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...Women the Fighting Generations Women always say they feel very vulnerable, but yet they never do anything to change it. This is true but they feel they do not have the time, and/or money to take a class that benefits them. Ever since the women's movement in the 1918’s, the women in our society have took the initiative to better themselves; by getting better jobs, promoting to higher positions and little by little moving up in the congress to run for presidency. Women are also beginning to learn about self-defense and are self-reliance to better themselves. I believe the cultural shift of women becoming more aggressive and self-reliant is great because they are less vulnerable, independent and confident in themselves. Woman who take self-defense classes have been in the category of woman that are able to avoid attackers. Jeff Klein the writer of “Watching My Back” writes about an incident where Jeff and his girlfriend ran into a drunk man who tried to provoke them, but turns his attention else where. She tells Klein “I got you back”(82) joking, but yet feels a since of comfort by the notion that she does know self-defense and if ever needed she does not feel vulnerable. I honestly do believe women have the right to take any class that betters themselves. Not only do women feel vulnerable walking down the street, but many women down are assaulted even by just jogging around the neighborhood. In The Beaufort Tribune, one man at knifepoint took her into a wooded area and sexually...
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...Your elusive creative genius, 2009). In ancient Greece and ancient Rome creative people were not actually considered to be creative, but instead had divine attendant spirits (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). Eventually, society stopped looking at creativity as a divine spirit and instead started looking at the individual as the creative entity (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). Elizabeth states how she believes this to be the worst thing to ever happen to creative people, because now their egos and expectations will be over inflated (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). We are losing creative people in today’s society because we are putting too much pressure on them to always improve on their own work and they are unable to handle the constant pressure and criticism. These individuals have to figure out a way to continue being creative and block out the critics in society. Creative individuals have to show up for work every day and do their job to create...
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...cold or for anyone who might have something as severe as cancer. Lastly, In my vision for America there would be an unlimited amount of jobs for anyone and everyone. Those are a few of the things I would change to fit my vision of America. The first thing I would change in america so that it fit my vision would be the amount of people who are suffering. I would make it so that everyone had a home to live in so that there aren’t so...
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...Outsourcing jobs to Foreign Countries Cedric Jones Axia College IT 105 Skills for Learning in an Information Age Rebecca Baiges February 18, 2007 2 Outsourcing American Jobs to Foreign Countries hurts the American Workplace due to the shortage of jobs. Have you every felt like in today’s job market having just a high school diploma wasn’t sufficient enough when it came to competing in today’s job market? Now, high school graduates have to really think hard and way every option before making that life changing and final decision before graduating. Do I pursue a college degree or do I take a chance and enter the work force. That kid that really had it rough in high school and all he or she was trying to do is graduate and receive their diploma and take a break from school, now is faced with another challenge. Do they have enough skills to compete in today’s job market. It’s really sad to say, that in today’s job market you see more people with college degrees applying for jobs at Target, Sears, Wal-Mart, Kmart, and even J.C. Penny. It’s really sad to say that you see more people with college degrees flipping burgers and dipping fries at McDonald and Burger King. You would think with all that money that was spent to acquire a degree, you could have it your own way. You would think with a college degree you could set your own course, but those days have come and gone. 3 Have you ever picked up the newspaper and evaluated...
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...confused high school kid walked into a pharmacy. Looked around and saw the scrubs and lab coats placed ever so gracefully on the pharmacists and pharmacy technician’s shoulders. "That's what I wanna do when I grow up" I thought to myself. Mesmerized by the importance of a pharmacy I scurried home and applied online. Months went by and I didn't get a single phone call. All of a sudden in the middle of summer I got a phone call for a job interview. I went in and filled out the necessary paperwork and the job was mine. On my first day of work I decided I would leave thirty minutes early just to get a feel of the place. I hopped in my car and took off. What happened next is a sign from god I should've taken seriously. A mile away from my destination I broke a stop sign and totaled my brand new car, but that didn't stop me. I got a ride from the police officer and went to work leaving my car completely abandoned and in the hands of the tow truck driver. Pharmacies are always busy. You always have to contact insurances, doctors, fill medication and that's when you're not taking care of customers. I was so accustomed to a lifestyle where I would lie in bed all day and watch reruns of friends or parks and recreation. Holding a job is hard, especially when you're selling hours of your life for eight dollars and twenty five cents an hour. I was only one month into that job when I realized that working in a pharmacy wasn’t all that luxurious, Most of the customers you deal with...
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...ICE STORM OF 1996 By Ashley Paul Interviewed My dad Dennis Paul When I interviewed my dad about the 1996 ice storm, I asked my dad what happened. What he said was horrible. For example, he said, “when I went to leave for work, the car was coated in ice and it was glistening in the light like snow in the sun. I couldn't get in.” I felt really sad when he said that because I know how important his job is to him. I love my dads job. It was a horrific story. I asked my dad what the scariest part is, and he said driving home. That pretty bad if the icy roads. As soon as he told me the power lines were really frozen, and they even ripped and exploded that's a pretty scary. I'm glad I wasn't born yet. Hopefully it won't ever happen in my lifetime because that would be scary. My dad must have been really scared and from what he told there were power lines in the road that could have been really dangers hopefully not a lot of people died....
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...assumes Presidency. He had been in office for merely eight months when the stock market crashed and the US faced the Great Depression. He has been accused of being the worst President who allowed the country to go into the most memorable depression to date. Herbert Hoover was a laisser faire President. He was blamed for not taking a more aggressive approach to the Great Depression. Only to believe the economy would fix itself. At the time of the Great Depression the US unemployment rate was at an all time high of 25%. So what are the main reasons that sparked the Great Depression? There are several reasons behind what actually caused the Great Depression. The Great Depression was not the first the nation experienced, but it was the most memorable. With recklessness on Wall St. Stock Market – excessive greed “buying on the margin” and over speculation. The banking industry took a dive for the worse. Farmers suffered tremendously because of the plummeting agricultural prices. Hoover attempted to intervene, but the acts passed by Congress and signed by him were the worst. Many believe it caused the problem to exacerbate. Hoover signed the Smoot- Hawley Act, which raised taxes. Raising taxes at a time of a depression was the worst. It was guaranteed to be doomed. President Hoover did led the Food Relief Effort, which put food into the hands of many Europeans during the world wide depression...
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...when you used logic to solve a problem. * Give an example of a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved it. * Give an example of a goal you didn't meet and how you handled it. * Describe a stressful situation at work and how you handled it. * Tell me about how you worked effectively under pressure. * How do you handle a challenge? * Have you been in a situation where you didn't have enough work to do? * Have you ever made a mistake? How did you handle it? * Describe a decision you made that was unpopular and how you handled implementing it. * Did you ever make a risky decision? Why? How did you handle it? * Did you ever postpone making a decision? Why? * Have you ever dealt with company policy you weren't in agreement with? How? * Have you gone above and beyond the call of duty? If so, how? * When you worked on multiple projects how did you prioritize? * How did you handle meeting a tight deadline? * Give an example of how you set goals and achieve them. * Did you ever not meet your goals? Why? * What do you do when your schedule is interrupted? Give an example of how you handle it. * Have you had to convince a team to work on a project they weren't thrilled about? How did you do it? * Give an example of how you worked on team. * Have you handled a difficult situation with a co-worker? How? * What do you do if you disagree with a co-worker? * Share an example of how you were able to motivate...
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...the national bank and caused the worst economic failure, and won in a past-due battle that cost thousands of lives for no reason. So clearly he is not worthy of being honored on the twenty dollar bill. For one, Jackson condoned the Indian removal act. For two, when the Supreme Court said the Cherokee could stay, Jackson rebelled and continued with the plan. This shows that his loyalty remained else-where. Andrew Jackson does not...
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