Career Related Coursework From Highschool
Listed below are how the courses I've taken and skills I have obtained in highschool that has benefitted my ultimate goal of opening my own restaurant.
Work Based Learning
I work at Smokehouse BBQ and Catering and here I work under my employer who is also serving as my mentor.
She helps teach me crucial tips in opening and running a business while I am working under her. While working there, my employer has taught me three key characteristics that I must have before opening a successful business; time management skills, desire, and focus.
My Qualifications:
Time Management
My mentor has taught me time management and how to apply it while working. For instance, if something needs to be done by a certain time but something else needs to be done sooner, it is best to prioritize the thing that needs to be done sooner first.
Desire
My mentor has displayed to me her desire to succeed. Thus taught me that I must have a drive and desire to do things for them to get done. I can't always mope around and wait for good things to happen, I have to be optimistic and have a drive for good things to happen.
Focus
My mentor has taught me focus and patience and how focusing on one task at a time rather than multiple leaves me with less stress, This results in often getting tasks done faster, rather than putting tasks off and being left with multiple unorganized, half finished, works.
STEAM and Capstone Project
In the STEAM program we have many group and team based projects, similar to in my career how there are multiple people working together in a kitchen to achieve a finished product within a time constraint, which in this case is the meal.
A project that we did in the STEAM program for example is our robot project. We had a group of three working together to build and program and walking robot that could walk a specified length and was resistant to being dropped. Here is a image of what it turned out like.
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In the STEAM program we also have a research based capstone project. For my research capstone project I have retrieved information related to marketing to growing small businesses specifically how it grows Smokehouse BBQ and Catering from where I work. This information is beneficial in the future for when I end up opening my own restaurant.
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