Problems at Work with my supervisor

Today I’m going to talk about work and managers. I work in Los Angeles City Hall, in the office of special events. I have a boss who is really difficult to work with. When she is in a bad mood she doesn’t want anyone getting next to her nor asking her questions. Last week she told me “Mayra secure a lance closure on spring street between 5th and 6th street for the African American Heritage Event”, I asked her “do you want the lane closed in front of the Los Angeles Theatre Center where our venue is going to be or across the street?”, she said “I don’t know” so I said “I’m going to reserve it in front” she yelled saying “no close it across the street!”. I was really upset but still managed to respond in a calm voice saying “who should I contact” she said “I don’t know figure it out, look online I don’t care” and as I was leaving she said “try Rita”. I began asking Rita if she could help me and she said she didn’t know how handle this, so I researched it on my own with help of my co worker. I applied for the permit needed to secure this lane and the page did not let me submit the application, it said “you must apply for a permit 5 days prior to the event” and I was applying 2 day before the event. I informed my supervisor my situation and she was really mad and said “I’ll take care of it, I told you specifically what to do and who to contact!”

This situation last week was horrible, first because my supervisor did not tell me specifically who to contact, second because she told me 2 days prior to the event, not giving me enough time of notice. What can I do in these situations? Should I have responded back? If I would have I’m sure she would have fired me right there and then.

Procrastination

            Why do people procrastinate? I procrastinate because I feel lazy to do my work sometimes, other times I am just to tired, but most of the time it’s because I put insignificant things in front of things that are important. This past week I began to make  list of all the things I needed to take care of for that week, things that have to do with homework for school. I wrote down things for my history, English, Psychology, and Math class. Once I completed my list and saw all the things I needed to do I automatically got lazy. I started of with English class and began writing my essay. It took me two hours to complete two paragraphs! Why? Because my roommate turned on the TV and I got distracted. I could have gone to a study room or asked her to turn it off, but the show on TV was good that I felt that I could multitask. Turns out I could do homework with the TV on, but must stop writing and turn around to watch TV every 30 seconds.

            That day I after writing my agenda for the week and after two paragraphs I realized it was 10:30 p.m. already! I pulled out my psychology homework and began reviewing my notes. I usually type them up and print them out and then review it, but I felt so lazy that I didn’t want to type it out. I went to sleep at 11:30 p.m. The next day I realized that I didn’t COMPLETE at least one of those tasks I set myself to do. I really have to start drinking vitamins and avoid distractions if I want to complete my work.

Keeping up with classes

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about how difficult it is to have a job, go to school, and pass all your classes. I was taking French 100 which introductory to French, but the class was extremely difficult. I can’t believe the professor isn’t allowed to speak English in the class! How were we supposed to understand what he is saying if he isn’t able to tell us what it means in English? Keeping up with homework and class work was extremely difficult, he would ask the class questions, and the majority of the class would stay quiet without a response because nobody had a clue of what he was saying. He burly wrote anything on the board, and would not teach us how to write in French, his entire lecture would be on videos of people talking in French and he would review the chapters in the book so fast that also keeping up with that has hard. My friend stayed in that class and I dropped it, and I am extremely glad I did, she is stressing in the class and had a midterm coming up, good luck to her and all those taking that class, at least with this professor. Attached is a link to French tutoring on line for those that may need it. http://www.ielanguages.com/french.html

My plans

            Last week I talked about different types of dances, in specifically salsa and mambo. Today I’m going to talk about my plans with dancing. I am going to major in Biology and minor in dance. I want to teach dance to other people because I have a passion for it. Dancing is more than a hobby in my life, it’s part of my daily schedule. Once I minor in dance, I plan to teach dance in a non profit organization because I’ve always been part of non profit organizations, they’ve allowed me be part of a dance class for free! I want to give back to these organizations by teaching in their locations for free. I don’t need to get paid to dance; I just love doing it and want to teach other for free, just as they taught me. I hope to become a great dancer and teach other how to become great too. This way if I ever see one of my dance students in TV I would feel good about myself for helping them achieve that success.

            How am I going to manage to have time for dancing when I’m a doctor? I honestly don’t know. I don’t mind giving up my weekends if I have to, in order to teach. I want to have my dance class so badly, I know we’ll be great, with all of our effort, I’m sure we’ll create an amazing class. Attached is a video of Ciara, she is a great dancer and her background dancers are just as great, they came from small dance studios and now are out in the Celebrity world.