Kat's Notebook

Last year, I joined Macy’s as a seasonal employee for the holidays. It was my first time to work in a big retail store company. I actually enjoyed it – I didn’t mind helping people and ringing up items. I also enjoyed the company of my other coworkers. Our team rocked because we looked out [...]

I’ve mentioned from my previous post that I’m working as a part-time sales associate for Macy’s this holiday season. I was very excited getting this job. When I was a young girl, I loved playing with a toy cash register and imagined running a store. I get to relive that childhood fantasy this year working [...]

There are a lot of things I want to experience. Even though my area of study is in health care, that doesn’t stop me from dreaming of working in other fields. I would like to experience being a secretary or executive assistant, an office clerk, a travel reporter, a nanny for an affluent family, a [...]

This week has been a very tiring one for me. After weeks of searching for a job, I’ve finally found one or rather two. Actually both are part-time jobs and temporary. My first job requires me a total of 8 hours a week while the 2nd job makes me work 2-3 days a week, until [...]

To break the monotony of my summer break, my friend invited me to join her on a job at a convention. I naturally agreed since I’ve been itching to earn something this summer. It was the same company who always hire students like us during dental conventions. So off I worked for 3 days in [...]

I’ve never realized how bad the economy was until I’ve been informed by my boss that last friday the DOW plunged to almost below 7000. I still didn’t understand that. He explained the gravity if the DOW really did go down below 7000, the economy will crash and burn. But came Monday the DOW bounced [...]

I’ve been studying dentistry for a long time and I couldn’t remember the taste of the anesthesia, or as older people knows it, the novocaine. That’s how good my dentist was. Until I had my wisdom tooth extracted here. I got a faint taste of it. It was bitter. Everytime after my boss injected the [...]