How I communicate
I am an extrovert, and have always been on the lookout for new ways to express facilitate my personality. As a kid, I had a pen pal in Vietnam, and as soon as I became aware of the internet the internet was prevalent, I was using social networking tools like ICQ to talk with my friends and family. From there, I started finding online forums to talk with people who shared my interests. who had the same interests as I, and now, These days, I am fully connected through tools like facebook, and twitter, e-mail and SMS. The best part: it all flows through comes into my cell phone.
The degree to which I communicate through these methods to someone varies, depending on the extent to which they have embraced modern communication. My grandparents, I can either call or e-mail my grandparents. My parents, alternatively, I can contact and communicate with my parents through nearly any method (with the exception of homing pigeons and myspace). My father for example, uses employs many different methods of social media in to facilitate his work and research, and He has always been among the first people in line to test out new methods of communication. There are still though, some things to which he Still, he doesn’t see the appeal of facebook. (facebook). Unlike my parents and grandparents, I communicate with my friends through every possible and new facet of social media.
Besides personal communication, I have a very social job, and employ a completely different and nearly extinct style of communication on a daily basis: face-to-face [not really extinct]. This old-fashioned style of communication, despite my love for newer methods, has become an enormous part of my success in life. I am a barista and have been for the last six 6 years. I originally started at Second Cup, in a highly standardized corporate environment where communication played a very small role in what I did. No matter how I interacted with the people coming into the cafe or the people I worked with, it was all around, a thankless and humiliating job. Now, however, I have moved on to work in an independent artisan cafe, and face-to-face communication plays an enormous role.
I have slowly worked my way through the Toronto espresso crowd, meeting people in the industry, making connections, and subsequently generating an enormous amount of social capital within the Toronto food and drink scene. Also, if it weren’t for face-to-face communication, I wouldn’t make the kind of money in tips that I do working as a barista. At my old, corporate coffee job, no matter how I communicated, the tip cup on the counter was no more than a decoration. In an artisan coffee shop on the other hand, the kind of money I make in tips can vary greatly, depending on the level of face-to-face communication I have with the person for whom I’m pulling shots.
To wrap it all up, I love to communicate, and I devote an incredible amount of my life doing so.
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Wayne MacPhail said
at 7:04 am on Sep 21, 2009
Thanks for this Adam. Have made some edits above. In general I think you (and other students) can lower your level of diction a bit. Your work could also write tighter.
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