Journal topic # 3

My dream job requires a job that first of all pays good and can support a wife and kids. It needs to have a secretary and not me to do all the desk work I do not do well at desk jobs. It also needs to be a job that is a physical job. I right now work part time as a apprentice for a contractor I like it a lot and I like the people that are in the trait. I also like working on my grandpa's ranch that's a blast working caddle driving tractors. I once worked on my grandpa's ranch for a whole summer it was fun. The money was not good at all but I enjoyed it its probably not something I would want to go into just because there is not much money involved in ranching anymore. But, I would like to maybe work in contracting it is a lot of fun and they money is really good I have noticed if you stay up on all the projects. I plan to stay in school and figure out what I might want to go into. Right now my main focus in school I do not really care about working right now.
I have worked many jobs in high school so I am used to working food and those are not my kind of style for making money. I used to work at Subway, the sandwich shop and that was alright all my friends used to come in and make fun of me about it. I also worked at Papa Murphy's pizza for a year in high school too it was a fun job I had a good boss and the people I worked with were cool people. So I just need to stay in school and fiugure out what I want to go into.

Journal topic # 2

I find it hard to figure out how to balance my time everyday with out getting off topic. Friends can come in the way, a class or two can really make me get off topic because I might might be thinking about homework or a project. I am fortunate to not have to pay for school so I am not worried about money like a big population of college students. But, I just have to stay on top of my school work that's the most important thing in my life right now. I have a quit place to study and read so that's not an issue. All my roommates go to Chico state so there a big help with studying and if I need help I can get it. I need to learn how to change my bad habits by using my time wisely. When i usually get home from class I am just lazy after that I need to do all my school work during the day night time I just can not study or do homework. All my friends call or come over so its a little distracting but i need to cope with it.
My parents are really counting on me to do well in school my older brother kinda screwed it up for me because he did not do very well his freshman/sophomore years so they really are looking to see if i am doing well in all my class's. I also work out at the gym everyday so that takes up like two hours of my day and that is something that's really important to me is staying fit. I don't know how I can stay up on working out but when it comes to school work it is a totally different thing.

Journal topic # 1

I have never really been challenged in school. I never really tried I always took the easy way out. I always have had the help at home and at school in a program called resource. I have always struggled in school that's what made me take advantage of all the accommodations in school I know i needed some of them, but a lot of them were just because i was lazy and wanted to hang out with my friends instead.
My goals for this semester are to pass all my class's and learn how to study on my own. I plan to work on self discipline with all my school work and take control of any problems that may come in the way. I plan to move on to all the new levels in school for my next semester. I would like to raise my reading level to help my school work and just so i can read faster and not have such a limited vocabulary.
My expectations for this course are just to have someone look at all my work before turning it in. I would like to have maybe a little more time on the test if i needed it. I am somewhat of a slow reader and i cant comprehend everything so it may take me a couple of times to understand what I am reading. Besides that I should be fine in school I can't really depend on the instructor to help me its all on my own to ask for help. I think this is going to be a good semester.