Freelance Graphic Design
Since my graduation from college, I have done some freelance work for friends, neighbors, and acquaintances who needed help with their own businesses. This included drafting up a written agreement, meeting with them in person to flush out ideas, drafting logo designs, revising, and contacting print companies to have the final design made on business cards and company apparel. This has given me real world experience in working with clients to produce an end result that fulfills their needs for their own companies.
Aquatics
Throughout the years, I have worked as a lifeguard, swim instructor, and pool maintenance worker at my local athletic club, amusement park, and town lake beach. I have been around water my entire life, so working in these environments feel like home. Whether it was at a local town pool or at a resort water attraction during vacation, aquatic recreation has been an integral part of my life. I’ve competed in countless swim competitions since I was nine years old and have been affiliated with private, high school, and US Masters swim teams.
I was elected to be one of the boys’ swim team captains during my senior year of high school. This gave me the opportunity to advocate for the resolution of teammates’ concerns and conflicts to the head coach when they arose. I also encouraged inexperienced swimmers and helped guide them in proper techniques for success during competitions. Throughout my career, I placed in the state for several events, ranging from the 200 yard individual medley to the 500 yard freestyle. Qualifying for the Seniors Championship held at Brown University in Rhode Island in July 2017 for the 200 meter butterfly was by far one of my biggest accomplishments. Swimming has taught me unforgettable life lessons, such as sportsmanship, determination, resilience, goal-setting, and focus.
Golf
Over the past several years, I have also worked at my local golf course. Here, I have worked alongside others to ensure that the course is maintained for golfers to fully enjoy. Some tasks that I have been responsible for completing include washing, refueling, and parking golf carts, emptying trash cans around the course, refilling water jugs, handing out refreshing iced-towels to golfers on hot summer days, assembling event posters, driving incoming golfers in the shuttle cart from the parking lot to the club house, and fully cleaning the restrooms. My time at this job has given me a lot of experience with professional social skills and being helpful to customers. As a side note, I used to be on the middle school golf team. I played at this same course several times during the season. My father had brought me to this course since I was two years old and taught me how to golf.
Retail
I started working at my local Walmart superstore during the shutdown of 2020. Despite the fact that my other jobs closed down, I understood that I needed to find another avenue to work. Retail was always something that intrigued me, yet I never had the opportunity to get involved in it. I decided to give it a try, and to my surprise, it was far better than I ever expected.
I’ve received invaluable experience while working as a front end cashier at Walmart. Throughout my time there, I have been able to refine my customer service skills, clearly and quickly describe problems to supervisors, use good judgement when selling age-restrictive beverages and products, remain calm when customers are frustrated, and troubleshoot problems on my own. I now have a better understanding of how stores keep their prices competitive, why product placement and promotion are vital for a store to obtain more sales, and how supply and demand works in the real world.
