Mind Boggling...HerStory

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary a job is the work that a person does regularly in order to earn money (Merriam-Webster, n.d). A career is a field of consecutive progressive achievement especially in public, professional or business life (Merriam-Webster, n.d). While there are many similarities in a job and a career there are apparent differences. A job requires minimum to no education or special training while a career requires an education and or individualized training that may pertain to the career. Careers are long term and may include benefits such as medical and dental 401K whereas jobs may be short term and most likely will not include benefits. Individuals that hold jobs are compensated with wages, yet individuals that hold careers are commonly compensated with a salary. A person will hold many jobs in their career building up to their desired position. Typically a person will work in jobs that pertain to their career in order to gain experience in their c...

As a child I watched my mom work hard. As a child I learned the meaning of hard work. Growing up in a typical single parent home in a urban neighborhood, I believed that my brothers sister and I had it better than many of the people in our neighborhood because we had a mother that worked hard and showed us the meaning of hard work. We never wanted for anything. Our basic needs were always met, and wants were met with lessons of hard work and working for what you want in life. I can recall my brothers wanting the latest shoes and their were costly, so my mother encouraged them to work for what they wanted. They began to cut grass, this in turn allowed them to contribute to what they wanted instead of just being handed things in life. This taught us the value of hard work. For the longest I had the most ugliest teeth, and financial and other reasons caused me to refrain from getting fixed. As long as I can remember I have always felt like I was an ugly person. I was called ugly so m...

Who am I, What am I doing here and where am I going? Wow, what such loaded questions, but can you answer all three, two out of three or at least one out of three. Of course, I am not talking about in the literal sense, whereas I answer I am Kristyna, I am writing, and eventually I will get up and go to the kitchen and cook. Throughout life we search for these answers. Though some find the answers to these questions many wander throughout life not knowing who they are, what they are doing here, or where they are going. These three questions are the basis to life, to our life. It is the basis to how we present ourselves to the world. The search for the answers to these questions begins at birth and continues throughout life, rather one find these answers depends on that individual person and their determination to better themselves through past successes and failures and real life experiences. Genetically we are a mix of our parents. We are composed of our parents DNA which descri...

Do you find it a difficult to go minutes without looking at your cellphone? Do you have the feeling of being lost if your cellphone is not in close vicinity? Many people find it difficult to go without their phone. Though the cell phone is a fairly recent invention, it has rapidly surpassed many other technologies. Cellphones has surely made pay phones almost extinct, and less people are using landline phones. Since the first phone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, telephones has continued to advance and has dominated the communication world. There were landlines, and payphones, which up until about a decade ago; they were seen on almost every corner. Cellphones has become one of the primary forms of communications. Today’s cellphones are much different than the first cellphones. Some of the first mobile cell phones were car phones. They were only as mobile as where you took your car, and had fewer capabilities than the cellphones that dominate the market today. As technologies ...