Homework 1

On the 19th of September on the year 1991 in a very small city hospital in Brazil a very handsome boy was born, and that boy is me. My name is ________, I grew up playing soccer and running around on the streets of Brazil. When I was about 16 years old I came to visit United States and it was love at first visit, and I decided to make this place my new home. I lived in Florida for the most part, my parents were always relocating due to their work. I went to four different high schools, and the last one of them was in Boston, MA where I graduated. After high school I took a 6 month brake from school to decide what profession I wanted to follow. After a long time contemplating my decision I chose Civil Engineering as my major and started at FIU.
I started working at the age of 17 at a fast food restaurant (Pizza Hut), I worked there for quite some time until I had to leave because my parents were moving to Boston. Once in Boston I found a pizza hut very close to my house and I applied there. Needless to say I got the job. After that I moved back to Florida where I started working at a 4 star restaurant, then another restaurant. After some time working in the restaurant business I wanted to get experience in some other area, maybe in an area that would be related to civil engineering and help me in the future. Then I started working at a Hotel in Miami Beach as an ‘engineer’. Yes the tittle is very misleading because all I did was maintenance work, still it was somewhat in the area. My boss knew a lot about construction and he taught me a lot, every day at work I would ask him to teach me something new. It was then that I realized that building and repairing things is a mixture of knowing how to use the appropriate tools and logic. I worked there for 2 years, until my boss left and the new one knew less than I did. I started looking for work again, and it was hard finding a place that would be flexible to my school schedule. Then I was offered to work as a manager at a restaurant that my friend worked at and I accepted. It’s been about 3 months and things are going pretty well at my job.
My expectation for this class is to learn ways to avoid unethical behavior, not only at work but everywhere. Some situations in life might be very hard to decide especially if you’ve never encountered them before, so by studying other peoples’ mistake I feel like I might better prepared if a similar situation would ever occur to me in my life. Also some practices of work might seem logical to some people, but one has to always keep in mind that people are raised in different cultures, especially in Miami so something that would be normal for me might be very offensive to someone else. That is why having knowing the ethics codes can help a lot.