MY GRADUATION by Nicolas Sanchez

As I woke up for my high school graduation on June 30, 2004, I got up to eat some breakfast and, then, was watching T.V all morning. When time came for my graduation, I started getting dressed. As I finished, I was already on my way over to my graduation.  

After I graduated, the next morning, I was thinking if I was going to go to college or start to get a job. So, I took long time deciding, and I finally decided that it would be better to get a job. Then at the age of 21, I got my first job, so I started working in a company for a year making refrigerators doors. After working for a year, unfortunately, I got laid off from the company.  

So I started looking for a new job and applying in other places. I waited for 2 weeks to see if they would call me back, but they never called me back. So my dad and I started picking up cans, boxes, and metal things everyday.  So, after a while, I stopped picking up cans because I wasn’t getting enough money. I got lazy for 2 years because I saved up a lot of money from the company.

 I used to work, and then I was picking cans. So, in 2009, my sister’s school was having a summer jobs event. Then I got hired at MEND where you help give homeless people food, clothes and others things. So, my job was paring the good toys and the bad toys, separating which ones go to the trash cans. I liked my job working at MEND because I only worked Tuesday through Friday, and, my days off were Saturday through Monday. So, after working at MEND for 6 months, I got laid off from the job I loved.

So then I started looking for jobs and applying everywhere; it was hard to get hired because of the rough economy. So I decided to go back to school because it was hard looking for work. So I said to myself I want to get a better job, or a career, so that why I decided to go back to school. My family was very happy when I told them that I was going back to school to get my bachelor's degree. In October 25, 2010, I entered in Everest College to study Criminal Justice. I have decided that I want to be “corrections officer.”