Top Floor, Please!

Well this article that I read about is talking about a lady named Debbie Grant and how she went to school, graduated, and wondered what she would do after she graduated. She also went to community college and everything for a few months but decided that higher education wasn’t for her. Then one of her friends told her about an opening for a sales position at a hotel then she met with the director of sales and catering at the hotel. She talked to the director about the job and went for it. She then made her way up to manger of a four star luxury hotel, then worked harder to the regional director of sales and marketing position. She all did this without a college degree too. Today, Debbie Grant developed talent because she says that people along her career path developed her and mentored her. She also says that the best way to start is at the front desk department because of the variety and number of positions there.

A Growing Field

A Growing Field talks about a guy named John Christian who is a farmer. He works everyday from seven in the morning to midnight. First he opens up his greenhouse, let’s his chickens out of the henhouse, and waters his plants. He bought his property at Canterbury, Conn. Three years ago to start a organic farm. He hopes that his soil will get richer as he works compost and manure into the land. It takes him time and effort to develop rich soil because organic farmers don’t use synthetic fertilizers. Organic farmers must weed by hand. John grows mostly greens like lettuce, arugula, kale, and bok choy, and flowers. Now he is beginning to specialize in herbs. During the winter, John makes his own soap from dried herbs, olive oil, buttermilk, and honey. He also sells his soap with his produce at farmers market two or three days a week.

Caring for the Big Guys

This article is mainly about a veterinarian name Bob Rednour and he runs a large animal veterinary service. He specializes in the care and treatment of large animals because he says that he has a passion for animals health and science. He also says that he likes being outside and working with the animals and that it keeps him in shape. Most of his work involves traveling to farms to treat animals. For example he tries fixing wounds, diagnose diseases, treating sick animals, and even help with difficult births. Bob works for a hundred hours a week. When he first started his job, he only worked from 50 to 60 hours per week. Now Bob takes special care of a mare in the stocks named Tupelo because of injuries from an unsuccessful birthing. He said that the foal developed problems and was stuck in the birth canal and the baby horse died but the mother suffered with some infections. My thoughts about this article is that being a veterinarian is probably a hard job for someone who is very lazy. That’s because I think that their job takes a lot of work taking good care of animals especially the large animals.

You Are What You E-Mail

This article talks about the way you write when you are e-mailing someone. This articles says that misspellings, incomplete sentences, or all lowercase or capital letters can make your message hard to read and can keep you from being taken seriously when you send messages like that to teachers, professors, or employers. E-mails can tell you a lot about the person that writes you, you can tell by the way they write their message. The guy in this article talks about these kind of situations, his name is Regan O’ Brien and he says that e-mail is permanent and can come back to haunt you.

Navigating the College Fair

The subject about this article talks about choosing the right college and how a trip to a college fair can help you make your choice. College fairs is a place where people from different colleges come together to answer questions and give out information about their college. The college representatives come to talk to students in person about what they can get to do and other stuff like that about their college and where its located. Also, maybe even things that you are most interested in. At college fairs, they put up booths and give out information and answers to students. The best way to help you choose your college is to get the best information about the college and do at least some research and see what interest you the most. It’s a good way for you to know about the college before you attend it. You could also fill out cards and stuff like that at booths so they can help you by sending information about a college.

My thoughts about this article is that I think that planning ahead and attending things like college fairs are good ideas for you to choose a right college. Getting enough information and research are also the best ways to choose the right college for you.

Face-Off

This article talks about who will become the next president of the United States and that it is less than two weeks that they will finally choose who will be president. But right now they have three big issues that the United States is going through. One of the issues would be about the economy because banks and many businesses are going short on cash, others would be about U.S troops fighting in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that people are worried about how they will fuel their cars and heat their homes in the future. People are going to be thinking about all this as they vote for the future president. They want to know what the future holds for them because they are getting to a point where there getting to a scary time right now. They want to chose a president who won’t make them pay higher taxes and other situations like that. They are also concerned about national security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama wants to end the wars but McCain still wants them to go on until to stop insurgents who are fighting the U.S. troops. Another concern is oil, and oil is used to turn into gasoline to power cars and used to heat homes and oil is beginning to run low because of the wars. In conclusion, the prices of gas and heating oil are going up too.

Prescipion for Success

This article I read about was about a lady named Catherine Newkirk and it told people about how she was influenced towards becoming a pharmacist. When she was small her dad had a serious cut on his foot and Catherine told her dad to go to a doctor but he wasn’t going to be able to afford the doctor’s fee. So they got some advice from their local pharmacist about how to clean the wound. What the pharmacist told them worked and Catherine never forgot the help their community pharmacist provided. Catherine liked seeing how much pharmacist can help people and she wanted to do the same. So that’s what influenced her.

Now Catherine’s job is in a drugstore where she can mix medications and make sure people understand how to take them the right way. She enjoys what she does because she says that she’s able to help many people around her community.

My thoughts about this article is that I really liked reading about how pharmacist can help people. It also influenced me to become a pharmacist myself because I enjoy helping people too and prevent them from dying of flu and stuff like that. It makes me realize what a great career it can be.