January 9th, 2010
My Marketing Research Paper Helped Me Sell My First Home
After college I got a great as a technical writer. I really enjoyed it. It was consistent work everyday. There was always something to do and I met lots of really good and interesting people. The one thing I didn’t enjoy was the lack of flexibility. I had just spent four years of my life following rules. I was so busy that my life was literally mapped out every single hour of every single day. From eating breakfast to sleeping, I had a schedule for everything. When I graduated from college I vowed I would never live a life like that again. I wanted to be free. I wanted flexibility and not having to be somewhere everyday at a certain time. I didn’t want anyone to expect me to be anywhere. I realized as I hit the snooze on my alarm every morning that I was living the life that I said for years that I didn’t want. I had to do something. I pursued the want ads looking for something that would be a little more interesting and a little more flexible. I found an ad that peaked my interests “Tired of those nine to fives? Give real estate a shot.” I got my real estate license and then trudged through the harsh commission only world of real estate and shortly learned I needed to write an marketing research paper to help sell my first home.
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January 8th, 2010
My Economics Term Paper Helped Me Balance My Check Book
My first job after graduating with a degree in journalism was as a cashier at the local grocery store. It was horrible. My coworkers consisted of mothers and snot nose teenagers. Everyday I would get up and go to work, apron in hand, and marvel at the fact that I blew four years of my life in college only to get a job that pays minimum wage. Meanwhile my student loans were accruing massive interests and my parents were getting really angry with having to cut me a check to pay my bills every month. I was literally counting my change for gas and food. It was very frustrating. Every month I would receive over draft fees on my account and it was constantly in the negative. My only saving grace was I had direct deposit so my bank usually covered the checks I wrote. I was at my wits end. I decided something needed to change. One day I was sprawled on my couch talking to my roommate, Robin, after work. My back was killing me. Someone had decided to purchase four cases of bottled water. I had to scan and pick up each one. I told her I was unsure if I could cover the rent again this month but was sure my parents would be willing to help out. I then proceeded to ask her if she wanted to go out to one of the local pubs. She narrowed her eyes at me and said I should put my journalism degree to use and write an economic term paper.
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January 5th, 2010
I Used My Student’s Work As Research Paper Samples To Boost Their Confidence
I have been a eighth grade teacher for five years. It is a very trying profession. The benefits are excellent. I love having three months off every summer and it’s extremely rewarding. On the other hand, I don’t have any flexibility with my schedule, I have been called every single name you can imagine and I barely make enough money to cover my rent and food. Eighth grade is a really difficult year for students. They are coming into their own. They are dating going through puberty and trying to grasp the idea of high school and leaving the friends they have been with for the past eight years. In preparation for high school, mid year, I begin teaching them how to write simple term papers. It is a very difficult assignment for most of them to grasp. They aren’t use to having to type out papers. They also have no idea how to cite sources. Every year I keep old student’s papers to use as research paper samples.
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January 4th, 2010
My Descriptive Term Paper Saved My Marriage
I have always wanted to be married. My parents have a great relationship and I thought it was always something I wanted. It sounded wonderful to have someone who is always there for you. A person who was your partner in life. Someone to brush your teeth with and listen to you. And someone to fall asleep next to. Then I met that someone. The man of my dreams a great guy. Someone who I thought would always be there for me. We got married. The first year was great or so I thought. Life was so good. I was happy. We were happy. And then everything went downhill. Relationships are hard. I learned that very quickly. It’s not as easy as my parents made it seem. My husband and I were unable to communicate anymore. We weren’t talking. I had gone back to school and was busy writing term papers. He was staying out all night and I found myself constantly watching the clock waiting for him. I became extremely miserable. We decided it was time for some outside mediation. We began marriage counseling shortly after our first anniversary. It was hard. Our therapist, Peggy, asked us each to say what exactly we wanted from our marriage. I told her I had always had a very hard time communicating verbally. I had always been better at writing. She could tell I was having a very difficult time and asked me if I wanted to write a descriptive term paper instead.
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January 2nd, 2010
My Government Term Paper Really Set Waves Through the Office
I am a white female. I come from an upper to middle class family in the Northern Suburbs of Baltimore. After I graduated from college with a BA in Journalism thrust into the worst job market ever I got a job in corporate America as a receptionist in a huge marketing firm. At times I felt like I was in a fashion show, I had to wear dresses and heals everyday. I had style my hair and even put on make up. It was so weird. I sat at a huge desk fielding calls about things I knew nothing about. I had to copy, fax and frustrated, clean shaven salesmen often asked me to do things that took just as much time to explain as it would have been for them to do themselves. I felt so above this job. But I desperately needed the money. I was sick of having my parents mail me a check every month and even more sick of my dad asking me when I was getting a job. For the most part things were okay. I did my job everyday and went home. The second month I worked there my manager decided to put a huge flat screen television set in the front lobby. Sounded like a good idea but he also picked the station we would have to watch all day. It was a cable news station that had the market ticker scrolling at the bottom of the screen. It also spewed right winged views all day. I had to hear uptight right wing men who wore suites that were more expensive than my car comment about it daily. I kept my mouth shut for the first couple of days but then I decided a government term paper was in order.
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