All the way up to my sophomore year of high school, I have never had a real job, legally at least. Sure I have mowed the occasional lawn here and there in the summer for $10 but never an official job. However, at the very beginning of my junior year, I got hired at Foot Locker in the Mall of America. The job, the hours, the people that were around me who were there to help me succeed, but the part that was the most challenging was to get adjusted to the fact that I was getting home at 11 pm or even midnight some nights. There was also an adjustment period for my mom to. She was not too keen on the idea of me walking down Franklin at 11 pm. Finally, she decided to let my walk home from the train station instead of staying up and driving my so late at night. Even people outside of my family were just getting used to me getting a job and not being able to go wherever we wanted right after school. Since it was my first job, there were a lot of thing that I have realized along the way. …show more content…
And required to clock in at 5 o'clock during the weekdays when I am scheduled. I am always at least a full hour early or at the very least a half hour early. This allows me to eat a full meal before work as it is quite physically demanding. I have never been late to clock in. There was one time, however, where both trains broke down and I was 15 minutes late, but I called my manager and told him of the news and he simply told me that it was fine and that I didn’t have to worry. Through my first job, and the first few weeks of working there, I have realized that I am always prompt. Not just for work, but for many other events too. I am always 15 minutes early to an event, regardless of what it is. That way, if I do happen to be running late, I will show up on