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Jiarong Huang
Professor Carlisi
ESL 33B
12 April 2018
This was a leisurely weekend. I boiled some water to make tea and started to clean my
bedroom. Then a diary book which was at the corner of the drawer caught my eye. I opened and
read it. It took my mind to my young time. In my past, I had several dreams which I wanted to be
in the future. I wanted to be a doctor, a scientist, a teacher. As time went on, I found I have some
difficulties in some careers and took them away from my decisions of careers. For example, I
couldn't face the sadness in the doctor major and the scientific major needed a higher education
and knowledge. So I couldn't decide my major, but I narrowed to some choices of them.
Suddenly, the sound of boiling water took my mind to come back. I realized that I have
immigrated to Los Angeles for a long time and I had a decision about my major. In my leisure
time, I like read fantasy novels and some outdoor activities which I have never tried. In a word, I
want to combine my hobbies in my jobs. I thought I was challenged and I like some challenge at
work and don't like the repetitive work. I also like to imagine in free style and want to make
them true in my job area. I like to have challenges at works and put my fictitious ideas in the true
Through my history of school time. I liked to watch the TV shows that the actors played
the part of a business in my free time. I saw that they dressed suit and worked in an office. And
then I thought that they were so cool when I was young. They also worked on some different
projects which were challenging but they could do well on them. They put their ideas in the
works and carried out the project. I thought that it was fun. Also, I liked and math and science
which I was worked better than other subjects when I was in the school. So I wanted to put my
interest in my major. After that, I moved to LA. The language and culture were different from
my native country. The culture and history which I had learned for a long time in my hometown
were not useful here. Also I didn't like to remember the information about history and other
subjects. At last, because of these hobbies and experiences, I decided to be a business man in the
future.
After I have a decision about the major, I usually imagine where I will work and what I
will do in the future when I am a business man. In the normal life, people usually said that
business field images a battleground. So we resemble the soldiers who need to have the
equipments to prepare the war. As a result, we need to have some skills to equip ourselves to
prepare for the jobs. In short, we need to know the discourse community of my career, business,
discourse community of my major is about having the same values and working for the same
goals with people who I will work with and communicate with in my career. In order to have
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more information about discourse community, I had a interview with Dr. Carol D. Kellogg who
First, I want to know more information about business and what skills I need to master to
prepare for the jobs. So I made the appointment with PCC professor Carol to have an interview
about business by email. Before the interview, I wrote down some questions which were relates
the project two assignment about the interview. On Monday, I went to the professor Carol's
office with other two classmates. We had the interview in the classroom which was next to the
professor's office. And then we started the interview. One of us asked the questions and others
wrote some notes. We spent about 15 minutes on the interview. At last we thanked professor and
left. After that I organized my notes and kept it to prepare for the essay.
After the interview, I could get some information about my major, business. One of the
most important is having the good communication skill which "85% employers think is
because we need to explain ideas to the customers clearly. Professor Carol said that "our English
should be logical and make sense so that others can be easy to understand"(Pro. Kellogg). Then
because we are Chinese, we have the completely different language so we need to practice more
in order to pronounce correctly. For listening, professor Carol explained that "we need to be
more careful and patient to listen what the customer need and require"(Pro. Kellogg). We also
need to have some practices on writing that we should quickly write down some notes about the
requirement and meeting. Professor Carol states that "we need to summarize the information and
choose the important things about the talking to write down"( Pro. Kellogg). So we need to train
Another important skill is about suitable critical thinking skills which "81% employers
think is necessary"(Hart Research). We need to have the analysis skill. Professor said that "we
will analyze the project and the customers' requirement to according to them. Also we need to
analyze the data which will use in the project to make a better decision"( Pro. Kellogg). And then
we should master the problem-solving skill. Professor explained that "there will be almost some
problems in the jobs and need to have good skills to solve them"( Pro. Kellogg). So analysis and
Not only should we adapt and deal with the culture differences, but there are also some
differences between the college and work environments. We need to be more polite and formal
to get along with co-workers. We need to be more cooperative so that we can get well along with
workers and have the effective work. We need to accept the different culture which the workers
have. Our home culture and U.S. are also different. We need to change our mind about the
culture. For example, in my home culture, when we want to shake hand, the younger should
stretch the hand first to show polite. In contract, we need to wait for the superior to stretch first in
U.S. Also, there are some words and gestures have the different meaning in different cultures. In
a word, we need to deal with the problems about the different cultures which others have in our
discourse community.
As for my discourse community about business, I need to work with the company's co-
workers, customers, boss, superiors, investors and so on when I am going to be business man.
We need to master some skills to get well along with them. First, we should understand the
customers' requirements and contract with them in a good way. Second, we should get well along
with my co-workers to have the more effective works to make the better projects. Third, we need
to have the good relationship with the boss and superiors so that we can work well together and
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struggle for a same goals and have some benefits for the company. So we need to train ourselves
Knowing about that some skills are important and required for my career, business. I
need to have the good communication skill to work with customers and others in my jobs in
order to explain myself clearly and easily. I need to have good effects on speaking, listening,
writing and reading. I also need to master some critical thinking skills, such as analysis and
problem-solving. These skills are required for the jobs so that I can have the good process on the
works. Because I am a immigrant, I need to adapt and deal with the cultural differences which I
will meet during the job, for example, the differences between college and work environment,
the differences between my home culture and U.S. I should get well along with the partners.
Finally, something I need to keep and something I need to change and master. Some of
my hobbies, such as being challenged, keeping imagining in free style, patience, need to keep
and improve to be better. Some weakness need to train and practice. For example, I need to
practice pronunciation of English so that I can drop my accent; I should have more progress on
analysis in order to have good job in the future; I also train my problem-solving skill so that I can
solve the problems which I will have in my jobs. I should train myself on creativity because it is
important for business if I want to have higher achievements. So I need to reinforce my strength
and train my weakness so that I can prepare for the major which I want to be a business. For the
short-term goal, I need to improve my English skills first. At the same time, I should train and
master some required skills for business. Because I like have challenges at works and use my
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ideas in my works, my hobbies and experiences make me to decide to be a business man in the
future.
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Works Cited
Webcourses: https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/984277/pages/what-is-a-discourse-community
Hart Research Associates, “Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success,” Jan. 20, 2015,
p.4. http://tinyurl.com/nz6txph.