Matthew Valdez: Ace Sushi Chef

My most enjoyable job was when I was hired at a Japanese restaurant called Suruki's. I had one job and one job only, to make sushi. Some other responsibilities I had were to wash dishes and fill the fish tub with ice. Besides that, making sushi was all I had to concentrate on. What made the job enjoyable was that lots of my friends worked there and Chris Aguda from LCO was the manager that hired me so I was able to have a really flexible schedule. Fun Fact: I was actually hired to replace Andrew DeMesa after he left. So yeah anyway. We had tons of downtime in the morning and after lunch. All we did was talk and listen to Japanese electro music and anime songs. The only thing that wasn't that great was the owner of the restaurant. He was really mean and by far the worst manager I ever had. I believe that the experiences I had at this job will help me at my internship because I would be able to deal with mean managers. The lessons I learned were how to have patience with an extremely rude temperamental manager. This is a great lesson I learned because angry managers are ubiquitous.

The worst job I ever had was my first job at Target.  My job was to take items and put them in their specific aisles in their proper place.  I also had to fix up the aisles and make all the items look all clean and tidy.  I was really fast at this job and my managers liked that.  Because of this, they put me in the toy's section during the Christmas season.  I hated it.  It was seriously like cleaning your room and having people come in and mess everything up.   What I can take from this job is patience to push through a very mundane task.