Personal Essay

After graduating High school I decided to take a year off of school to figure out what I wanted to do. I worked at a restaurant in Dartmouth, Massachusetts called Percy’s Place as a Prep cook and a Dishwasher. I started at the job before I graduated high school and I would only work weekends but when school ended I lucked out and landed a full time job. At that time I thought a full time job at a restaurant was the best thing in the world but I soon found out that it was not.

As time went by working my summer away I loved it and I was making a lot of friends and learning a lot about the way things ran and also about the business of a restaurant and how things were made. I found out all little secrets about dishwashing fast and efficiently like spray off all the plates after putting them in the crates to wash them also that washing the floor before closing was a great idea if it was not a busy day. Also at that time I was very shy and I really did not talk to many people that I worked with unless I absolutely had too. Around this time I started becoming friends with a girl that worked out in the front of the restaurant her name is Dana she would always try and talk to me so I would come out of my shell. Dana was the last person you would expect to be a waitress at a restaurant. She was a very nervous person she would also tell me how she should not be a waitress because of the fact that she does not like to talk in front of people or talk to people she does not know. From her telling me all this it got me really comfortable talking to her because we were pretty much exactly alike. I worked there that whole summer but I planned to go to college in the fall but that was quickly delayed.

I applied to go to Bristol Community College at the beginning of summer to see if I could get into any type of program that I liked but I really could not decide what I wanted to do so I never ended up going. So instead I kept my full time job at the restaurant but this time around I did not love it so much it fell into new management and it made the place stricter and not as much fun. I know it is a job and it’s not supposed to be fun but a little bit wouldn’t hurt. We now had to were uniforms and we could only have a 15 minute lunch break and I for one take a long time to eat so that wasn’t good for me. I am not one to say how I feel so I just went about my work like I always did and I did this for about another year and by.
This time I realized how that I wanted to be a chief so I applied for college again.

About a month later I got an acceptance letter saying that I was accepted to go into the culinary arts program at BBC. By the time I had to pay for school I realized I did not want anything to do with making food because of my job and how much I hated. So I went another year of working at the restaurant but now I just went about it like any other job I just did what I had to do and leave. I would just try and do the best I could from what I had to do and then try and get out as fast as I could.
I went about this for a couple months and finally realized that I needed to go to college.

So this time I applied for financial aid and everything else I needed to actually go threw with it. I decided just to go for the normal classes just to get going until I find out what I want to do with the rest of my life but I do know that I do not want to be stuck working at a restaurant for the rest of my life. After my 2 years of not going to school I realized that I needed to do something with my life and get a better education and try and get a good job that I will be able to support myself on for a long time to come.