I have had a few jobs since I graduated from high school. Some were easier and others were harder, but they still paid the bills. Out of all of them, I think the best and worst job I had was being a wheelchair skycap at Oakland International Airport. My main duties were to pick-up and transfer passengers to and from the airline and if necessary help them get their luggage. I would have to take them to the restroom, if they needed to go, take them to visit any gift stores they may have liked and stop at food places, as long as they told me to. It was a fun and insightful job. It gave me a chance to meet new and fun people flying in and out of the airport every day. Meeting the myriad of different people help me to become more, outspoken and approachable with new people. But at the same time, working at the airport you experience and meet a few Dullard people. These people will show up 15 minutes or less before a flight leaves and would expect us to run them up to their plane. Also, just dealing with the co-workers was an obstacle as well, because when you have colleagues or co-workers that make your work space difficult to work in that can affect your mood as well as your work performance. This has taught me a lot about how to deal with issues in the work environment. You have to be able to turn the other cheek when you feel it may be issues with a co-worker or customer. I learned the work place will throw a whole lot of curve balls at you and I settled down and knocked it out the park.
Monday, December 5, 2011
The life times at the Airport
I have had a few jobs since I graduated from high school. Some were easier and others were harder, but they still paid the bills. Out of all of them, I think the best and worst job I had was being a wheelchair skycap at Oakland International Airport. My main duties were to pick-up and transfer passengers to and from the airline and if necessary help them get their luggage. I would have to take them to the restroom, if they needed to go, take them to visit any gift stores they may have liked and stop at food places, as long as they told me to. It was a fun and insightful job. It gave me a chance to meet new and fun people flying in and out of the airport every day. Meeting the myriad of different people help me to become more, outspoken and approachable with new people. But at the same time, working at the airport you experience and meet a few Dullard people. These people will show up 15 minutes or less before a flight leaves and would expect us to run them up to their plane. Also, just dealing with the co-workers was an obstacle as well, because when you have colleagues or co-workers that make your work space difficult to work in that can affect your mood as well as your work performance. This has taught me a lot about how to deal with issues in the work environment. You have to be able to turn the other cheek when you feel it may be issues with a co-worker or customer. I learned the work place will throw a whole lot of curve balls at you and I settled down and knocked it out the park.
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I have worked a lot of with customer service and I learned to be humble. There is many times that people test your patience but you have to pay you bills so you learn not to pay attention to them. So I understand you method of turning the other cheek.
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