Essay On Why I Chose This Job

On Sundays, while my friends enjoyed their day by going trekking, playing games or taking catnaps, I was dreaded by these extremely long family meetings right from 8 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon. My grandfather, with my father and uncles, chaired these meetings to discuss my career and the family business of real estate. I was an innocent ten when I was first cajoled to sit through these meetings even though I could barely differentiate between the 'c ' of cash flow or the 'a ' of asphalt. Moreover, I used to attend the family meetings with my cousins. Some of them are engineers and others are businessmen. Therefore, one Sunday would become my business class and another would become my engineering session. This way my weekends consisted of many learning sessions. Thus, I started creating interest in economics as well as in civil engineering. Moreover, my father used to give me a myriad of tasks. Initially, I would make rough maps of houses and later study documents with technical terms such as zoning, equity or flipping which were beyond my comprehension. Slowly, I approached these difficult tasks with

I started helping one of my brothers in managing his three pharmaceutical shops. I used to note down other people 's business experience in order to learn the applications of a business, watched Shark Tank, and listened to the speeches of great businessmen. With my knowledge and his hard work and persistence, we expanded our business by creating three more pharmaceutical shops. Moreover, I started helping my uncle by interning in his real estate firm. I used to do paper works, made new contacts and played a major role in the department of design. My cousins used to tell me about the importance and the positive aspects of civil engineering. Civil engineering requires creativity and thinking out of the box to solve problems encountered in the real