¶ … activities since high school. Include jobs held, extra curricular activities, service, and volunteer activities, honors, and awards, any military or other service to the country and any significant periods during which you were neither employed nor enrolled in school. Also, explain in detail any two of the activities that were most meaningful to you.
If you were to meet me in my ordinary, grounded daily life, you would probably have no idea that in my not-so- copious spare time I am learning to fly a single engine airplane. Eventually, I hope to obtain my private pilot license. Yet although I have spent more than my fair share of time in the air, most of my life's work and my life's passions have remained securely grounded, focused upon helping others and communicating with others in the medical profession.
After graduating from high school, I began work at the Tug Valley Veterinarian Clinic for a veterinarian named Dr. Koch. Although no longer in his employ, I am proud to call him a friend and mentor. While working for Dr. Koch, I also was a full time student at Southern West Virginia Community & Technical College (SWVCC). Being a student is demanding of course, but I discovered that Veterinary medicine and the practice of medicine in general is even more demanding. It is demanding emotionally as well as intellectually. Veterinary medicine in particular requires a silent form of communication with the needs of the animal patients, as well as constant verbal communication with the patient's owners. Often I found that the owners were more nervous and emotionally fragile as their pets!
After graduating with two associates of science in Physics/Chemistry and Biology, I set off on my own new goal of pursuing a BA. I was a part time student at Marshall University for financial reasons. To finance my life and education, for a time I worked at three jobs, one part-time for Coleman Oil, another full-time job for the Williamson Daily News and lastly another part-time occupation laboring as, of all things a telemarketer -- another job that required a certain emotional resilience and sensitivity, verbally if not visually and tactilely!
After this committed, perhaps over-committed period of my life, I transferred to West Virginia State College and worked part time at Coleman Oil, until I secured a full-time job in the Home Health Field. While working in the latter occupation, even when I expanded my course schedule to a full time level, I finally felt fully at home and secure in my place in the world. I knew that the health field was where I truly was 'at home' as a worker and a human being. The health profession deployed my scientific curiosity, love of helping others, and my determination and enthusiasm all at once.
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