Hi my name is Jeremy Keen I’m in my thirties and I have finally made it back to school. Thank goodness for this lousy economy. Until a short while ago I would work 60 hours a week beating up my body as a carpenter. I really did enjoy what I could do, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I really am a very good finish carpenter. I just started to notice that if I continued in carpentry I wouldn’t be able to move at all by the time I was fifty. I have repetitive stress injuries in my wrist and shoulder and I’ve hurt both of my knees. That’s what lead me to this new career. My wife got hurt on the job and had to go in for physical therapy, and I started talking with the therapist’s assistant. He told me he used to be a carpenter and when he hurt his spine he had to find a different career. This thought stuck in my head, and when I was laid off I found out I qualified for worker retraining. I like to help people and I need a stable career this seems like a great fit. I don’t really have any hobbies because when I wasn’t working I was working on our farm or just trying to get some rest.
I absolutely hated writing before I came back to school. I have never felt good at it and tried to do as little as possible. I e-mail some, and chat a little but I have never been a fast typist and that added to my writing anxieties. I am slowly coming out of my shell, and finding I don’t really hate writing. I just hated being criticized for something I didn’t want to do in the first place, and didn’t understand the rules for anyway.
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