The Best Yet Worst Job

        What would you do if you had a dream job that was everything you ever dreamed of, and suddenly you find out that it’s not as great as you had hoped it to be? Well this is what happened to me during my time as a sushi chef in a small restaurant in Vallejo. 

        The restaurant was called Suruki’s and at first it seemed like a dream come true. 

        Since the owner was Japanese he needed someone with work experience to become the manager to help him with hiring, and no that wasn’t me, but it was my friend Chris Aguda. He became the factotum of the store, and he was tasked with creating new menu items, doing payroll, hiring new employees, and more. Shortly after I found myself hired along with 6 of my other close friends, truly a dream come true, that is until the big boss started to criticize my work.  Within a week my dream had been shattered by the rudest, racist, ignorant, pessimistic, money driven boss, who I had never met until that day. I was yelled at and eventually was about to be fired, but thankfully Chris had saved my job. But the stress was too much and the fact that I was expendable and he was willing to fire me made me quit. Although this job was the worst one I had ever had, it taught me a lot of things that will help me with my future career choices.

        I had learned how a small business ran and that every little mistake costs money and that while you may have the greatest boss you have the exact same chances of getting the worst. In the end I learned how to work in a very fast paced environment dealing with many customers’ orders and complaints. This made me humble and I now work harder towards my goal to never be worked like a slave for only minimum wage.

Freakonomics Review

An interesting view on economics that provide many supporting details on how incentives drive the world. Freakonomics has no main topic and goes above and beyond in explaining and backing up all the topics he discusses from why drug dealers still live with their moms to how sumo wrestlers and school teachers are similar.

I believe that the author wrote this book to break all the bias views on what effects our world.
There was no passage that initially came out to be very interesting to me but how he describes incentives and how it affects people really caught my attention.

My book groups had a very long and interesting conversation on how a child should be raised and we all came to an agreement that a child shouldn't be punished for everything they do, but they also shouldn't be given freedom to do whatever they want. There needs to be a balance of the two to show the child that there are some negative incentives to doing bad things and vice versa.

While the book was very interesting I found that the wealth of information was a bit overwhelming. They presented so many facts that it was hard to keep up with them while at the same time complete the assignments given to us.

Freakonomics was a very simple yet complicated book presenting many words that I didn't understand, but helped broaden my vocabulary with the new words. The language had no effect on my group as we all understood his message for each chapter and continued to have very interesting conversations

Overall I would recommend this book to a friend because honestly I feel that this book would have been more enjoyable to me if I didn't need to retain the information and create summaries on the whole book for a grade.

Process of reading Freakonomics

Freakonomics is a very interesting book that gives you a lot of knowledge of every subject it goes over. I found that it was a very hard task for me to read it, but I endeavored and kept up with the assigned readings. The best strategy that I used to do this was I read on the way to school and back. I take public carpool which takes about 45 minutes to get from Vallejo to San Francisco. This would allow me to read about 10 pages every ride because I would either get dizzy, tired, or lose interest. If this wasn't enough to finish in time I often used my breaks to catch up by reading 2-5 pages every break. While at home I have too many distractions for me to want to concentrate on reading for longer than 4 pages, so I would often take breaks so I could remember what I had just read and this was I am able to keep me interest in the book. The way I annotated the book was based on what assignment I was given. For vocabulary I would place a question mark next to every word I didn't understand which made going back and finding them faster. I also used this method to find a quote I talked about by placing a mark next to meaningful things that were said in the book. Next for moderator I have every key point he makes and then make a quick summary of that point. Making summaries of the points also helped me create the summary for the intro, chapter 1, and chapter 2. Since there was so much reading, I just reread my smaller summaries when I needed to refer back.

This book was a lot of information to take in which in turn made it hard for me to keep interest. So I advise to try and not read the whole chapter in one sitting but take breaks after every 10-20 minutes. Also make annotations; they will help all your assigned book work so much easier.