Journal 8 - Colton Long

Respect & Discipline/Career Choices

I have always had the idea of respect surrounding my life and everything I do for as long as I can remember. My dad has always taught me good manners common edict when it comes to being around people and when I go to visit another persons home. I say respect and not one of the smaller subjects because respect basically sums up all of them and gives me an easier way to portray my reasoning. I think that respect is the most important core value a human being to have because it alleviates most of the problems that occur in our life. We see too many times today where you see a kid have problems at school and it gets them in trouble because of there was no respect at home. Al well as there was no discipline to show who to respect. If a person has little or no respect, and I mean actual respect not what someone who doesn't have respect thinks is respect, but a true understanding of respect. Discipline and Respect go hand in hand because without one you truly do not have the other. With out one or the other you are lacking the most basic of traits a person could have. It is true many people have different lives and were raised in a different style homes, but we all should have the basic understanding of respect and discipline. Even though some people grew up and never learned it it is something that you can learn at anytime.

There are two careers that I find to be in the interest and of my liking and they would be what I am getting a degree for which would be to become a CPA, or a certified public accountant, or a more unorthodox job but no of the less still a great stable and good paying job is to work for UPS as a package deliverer in their iconic brown vans. The idea of a CPA has been around me really influencing me for a couple of years now. It started when my sister was dating a man who worked in the financial field and helped me learn about what there is to do and the basic outline of what they do. The UPS idea came to me very recently when my family's favorite delivery guy came by and we talked to him about it because it seemed like a fun job to me because it was pretty much an easy going job with not too much stress involved.

Here I would in a nutshell be doing people taxes.

For UPS it would be a pretty relaxing job that I could do with was still a great provider for whatever I do in the future.