F.+Midterm+Essay

Dear Gabby,

You must remember that high school is all about learning, growing up, and improving yourself. You can never grow into the person you want to be if you never try. Some good choices have been made, such as getting a job and your license, but so much more can and needs to be done. If you want to make changes, now is the time to start. This next semester you need to show your dad that you can control your money better, get more involved in your school, and learn and get better at a new part of your job.

Controlling money is a skill that needs to be learned early on, because lack of that skill later on in life can be disastrous. This skill can be learned somewhat in classes at school, but mostly it is learned through experience. You can get better at controlling your money by making your car payments on time. You need to make sure that you have the full 150 dollars well before the due date, which needs to be paid to your father every first of the month. Also, saving is something that should be started back up again. You had been saving your 1,000 dollars for the down payment of your car, now that is paid, you need a new goal to start saving towards. Having three months money to be able to pay for gas and car payments would be a great security net if you were to get laid off. By doing these simple tasks, you can show your father that you can be trusted with money and can control it.

You only go to high school once, so you must do all that you can to ready yourself for college. Participating in school activities is a great way to not only just get out of the house, but to improve leadership and communication skills as well. These school activities, such as volunteer work and school club participation, are great things to include on your resume as well. Due to work and sports, you have been only able to be a member of one club, DECA. You recently competed in the DECA districts and did great! You placed third place overall, which is one place from making it to states. You didn’t want that to stop you, so now you found there is a way to go to states, and you’re going. This is a great learning opportunity and you should join more clubs like this, so you can gain the same experiences.

In October of last year, you finally got your first job. You have now been a hostess at Texas Roadhouse for about four months. As a hostess, there are different levels to your job; seater, coordinator, and updater. You have been a seater for the past four months and have only tried each other position twice. Coordinating is the hardest position, but you need to take the initiative and learn. Once you do learn how to coordinate, you also must learn how to handle the stress and how to interact with the customers while in the position. Attempting to learn a new position might show your boss that you are ready and willing to learn, which might lead him into giving you a promotion in the future.

At age 16 there are a lot of things you are going to do that will shape you into the woman you are going to be one day. You are not going to develop these needed life skills unless you try. At times the little voice in the back of your head is going to say that you don’t have the time or the skills to accomplish the goals you have set for yourself. Although this might be true at times, you know that you can make time and you are able to learn if you try. Your parents have been helping you your whole life to become who you are, but now it is time you take control and make yourself better this next semester.