Since I finished college, I have spent my working life in hotels. I have not lived in them, but have worked in the hotel industry since then. I started out as a night auditor and worked my way up to management. When I heard about the Las Vegas hotel promotion from within the company I work for, I decided that I was going to apply for it.

The company only has a Las Vegas promotion about once every three years, and though I knew it would be hard to live in a new city, I knew that it was an experience I would not get for a long time if I did not take the chance right now.

As it turned out, they were handing out two Las Vegas hotel promotions at the time and I ended up getting on of them. As I prepare for my new life, I am nervous and scared, but I am still confident that I will do just fine.

Each year, our company registers a team in the annual marathon for charity. It is not mandatory for the staff to take part, but we have learned that it tends to be a lot of fun and it brings us all a lot closer as a team, both in the office and out of it.

This year, the marathon committee sent us out some business forms to fill in with our team information and to help gather donations for the charity that they were supporting this year. I posted the information on the bulletin board in the lunch room and participant interest this year is higher than it ever has been before.

All of the marathon runners were given recruitment documents to fill out and several of the staff members started walking together during their lunch breaks to try and get into shape for the marathon. I am sure proud of my staff.

In my line of work, it is absolutely imperative that I be able to make a secure call from anywhere at any time. In fact, most of what I do is under such high security measures that my wife does not even know about it.

When I need to call and check in with my superiors, I use gsm encryption so that there is no way that the call can be monitored or traced. I have learned a lot about this kind of thing, as I do not want to put all of the information and research that we have done in jeopardy.

I am kept up to date on all of the latest encryption software. It is part of my job and we all need to stay on top of it. We have weekly meetings where we are briefed on new security measures and I am not willing to take a chance on letting anything leak.

My sister has always been good with her hands.  You should see her play the piano, build a bookshelf, or even paint.  In fact, I would have to say that she is one of the most talented people that I know.

Now I will be honest here, she isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.  I guess her lack of academic skills is made up with her ability to do anything with those hands.  I can remember that she was very sad when she was not accepted into college and she didn’t know what to do.

But thankfully, my mother came to the rescue.  She suggested that she should enroll in one of the local massage schools in town and do something that she would be good at.

Now, years later, she owns her own massage parlor and does very well for herself.  In fact, she has been voted the best in town for five years in a row now - all I can say is good for her!

When I was just a child, I lived through the most awful child custody case that I am sure every kid ever had to live through. My mother and father were at war with each other and my little brother and I were put right into the middle of it. I knew that they were angry with each other, but I was really disappointed that their respective lawyers did not take the kids feelings into consideration.

This experience scarred me for the rest of my life. I decided that I was going to become a lawyer someday and work with Utah family law. I wanted to be able to help the kids and I knew that living through it myself, I would know what was best for them.

One of the people I look up to most is Eric K. Johnson, as he quickly became my mentor. He always made his client quickly realize that hating their spouse was not productive to the well being of the kids. I made this my mantra and am doing what I always said I would do.

There was a memo on our desks today about the work disruption that we would all experience because of the renovations that they were going to do to our office complex.  In all honesty, it was about time as the building has pretty much looked the same inside for the last ten years or so.

We have been given dates that we will not be able to work as the commercial contractor has targeted certain areas of the building for certain days.  They are trying to do it with the least amount of disruption, but as with any other construction project, interruptions are inevitable.

There are talks that management might rent another workspace for most of us if we are unable to maintain minimum levels of productivity, but we will see how things go.

It will be nice to have a new work area to work in - it is time for a change of scenery.

A few years ago I was teaching a class that I had a lot of problems with.  Nobody seemed to want to do the work and it was very hard to get any of them to participate in the class discussions.  I assigned them a psychology essay in which I was hoping to draw them out of their own little lives and into the classroom.

I offered them the opportunity to come to me if they needed some essay assistance and not one student took me up on that offer.  Needless to say, I was very disappointed and didn’t know what else to do with this class.  To make matters worse many of the essays that were handed it to me, were not their own work.

I am sure that over half the class went to a buy essay website to purchase their essays and this really made me angry as the whole reason for a signing in this project was to find out about more who they were as people.  I never in my whole life want a class like this again.

I was hired a few months ago to do some registry cleaner reviews for our local paper. Part of my job is to take different products and write comparison reviews. We have slowly been moving to the technical side and I find myself having to do a lot more research, as I do not know the products well.

The nice thing about doing a Registry Mechanic review is that I get to purchase and try the software. I am sure that my computer has never been as clean as it is now. I would not have believed the amount of complete garbage that was on my machine if I had not seen it for myself.

What is even worse is that was just on my machine at work. I am sure that it would be even worse to run it on my home machine that has several different people using it. In the end, I decided that I liked what I had read most on RegCure reviews and that is the software that I, myself, decided to purchase and try. I was not disappointed and I would strongly recommend this product.

The weirdest thing happened to me the other day. I decided to apply for a job and they wanted an application essay. Any job I have ever applied for has kind of been a fill in the blanks application and I was taken aback that this one wanted an essay. I felt like I was back in school and wondered if I should study for it. Then I wondered if I really wanted the job that badly.

I decided to take the application home anyhow and think about it a little bit more. I told my mom all about it and she suggested that they were maybe doing it to find out who really was serious about wanting to work there. She said that the purpose for college admission essays is so that they can tell which students really want to be there and thought that this was maybe along the same lines as that.

I decided that I would do it, after all. I sent in an online essay with an online application and it was not very long when I got the phone call asking me to come in for an interview. I was excited that I was this close to working this job that I really wanted to have. I have my interview tomorrow afternoon and I am just hoping that it goes as well as writing the essay had.

I have been working for a local newspaper company for a few years now and I finally feel like I am moving up in the company. When I first started my job here, I was put in charge of typing out the Long Island personals. Not a very glamorous job, I admit, but it was a job and I had hoped to move up in the world before too long.

After about a year, I did move up. All the way up to the Long Island classifieds. Way more glamorous, I know. But, it was more hours and better pay. And, frankly, I was tired of hearing about all the divorced white females looking for companionship. I mean, who finds their soul mate by reading an ad in the paper.

I have just been promoted to the Long Island business directory. I actually really like this one, as it is not all office work. I actually get to go out and talk to local businesses and write short articles about new businesses in town. Who knows, maybe in twenty years, I will actually be writing the news.