My incredible life choices after Cegep

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Choice count: 31

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Field Related Analysis

Education : 77 matches

(activity, cegep, choice, college, continuing, diploma, disadvantaged, don, down, field, first, further, graduation, learn, learned, library, mindset, private, research, school, skills, social, specific, task, topic, training, university, vocational)

Law : 58 matches

(answer, arrested, article, bar, bias, cabinet, case, client, close, contact, corruption, discovery, government, illegal, information, law, minimum wage, minutes, month, notary, notice, offer, office, possibility, private, receiving, rescue, residence)

Food and catering : 51 matches

(bar, chef, coffee, cook, cooking, cream, customer, dessert, discovery, dishes, dressing, fish, happy, kitchen, night, party, pasta, restaurant, shop, skin, store)

Target Structure: (25 matches)

background check (1 match)

bias (1 match)

cursory (1 match)

foot in the door (1 match)

fulfillment (1 match)

hr (1 match)

ins-and-outs (2 matches)

intern (1 match)

internships (1 match)

learn the ropes (1 match)

maddening (1 match)

ojt (5 matches)

overtime (1 match)

pulled off (1 match)

straight a's (1 match)

though (3 matches)

undermined (1 match)

vacant position (1 match)

wage (2 matches)

worthwhile (1 match)

corruption (1 match)

volunteer (2 matches)

volunteers (3 matches)

volunteering (4 matches)

abroad (1 match)

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My incredible life choices after Cegep

The fateful moment.

After spending two years at Cegep de Thetford, I finally got my college diploma. During the graduation ceremony, several of my friends talk about what they will do in the future. One of my friends asks me what I am going to do with my diploma in my pocket. However, I have not yet decided what I am going to do. I am now faced to make a choice for my future life.

Choice 1 : Go to Laval University.

Choice 2 : Take a leap year.

Choice 3 : Find a job in Thetford.

My friends during the graduation ceremony

Go to Laval University.

After I have finally decided to go to University Laval, I must now apply online. As I am an undecided person in life, I don't know what to sign up for. However, I have always been thorough in my studies and this is what allowed me to get straight A's in all of my subjects. This is also what allowed me to be able to enter two prestigious fields, law, and journalism. Now I have to make a choice.

Choice 1 : In Law.

Choice 2 : In journalism.

I am deciding my choice of study

Take a leap year.

After receiving my diploma, I decide to go to a coffee shop to enjoy my leap year. However, I see two old acquaintances, and I start chatting with them. I learn that one of them had gone volunteering for a year in Peru and that she had learned a lot from her experience. I also learn that my other friends had gone on an eight-month trip around the world unequipped but only with a backpack. She repeated that her trip allowed her to recharge her batteries. After, this discussion I begin to do research. I decide to go abroad during my leap year. I hesitate to take a trip to Peru to do volunteer work, and I will be able to learn ins-and-outs or go on a trip around the world unequipped and according to my desires.

Choice 1 : Volunteering.

Choice 2 : Travel the world.

I am researching possible volunteering in Peru and traveling around the world

Find a job in Thetford.

After choosing to stay in Thetford, I decide to find yourself a job. I go around the city and drop CVs everywhere. One day, I get two calls from two different companies wanting to hire me. I must give an answer today. One of the companies that want to hire me is a well-known restaurant in town and the other company is a small clothing store that has the potential to grow and become bigger. As I like to cook, and I also like fashion, I hesitate greatly between these two job choices.

Choice 1 : Find a job in a restaurant.

Choice 2 : Find a job in a clothing store.

Me talking to my future boss

In Law.

After finishing my law studies, I love this domain so much that I decide to continue my studies, but to become a notary. After another year of hard work, I get my diploma and my license to practice notarial law. During my internships for my field, I were an intern in a prestigious notary's office. Following the opting of your diploma, this same firm calls back to offer me a job, and I must come to this office to meet the president.The next day, I went to my meeting for the job offer, but the president told me that I have to make an OJT so that they make sure that I match their company, and I will be paying minimum wage. Nevertheless, there is the possibility of a career ladder. I also, at the same time, hesitate since many weeks establish my own firm and whose wage would be more attractive than the minimum wage offered by the prestigious firm.

Choice 1 : Make a OJT with a notary cabinet.

Choice 2 : Create my own notary cabinet.

The office of the president of the prestigious notary firm

In journalism.

After completing my journalism studies, I was able to be selected by a reputable newspaper. They had been eager on me, since I had written an article during my studies which had marked them. The newspaper that had contacted me offered me an earnest journalist position which I accepted immediately. I had to write articles that would shock people. So, I had a free field for my subjects, but I hesitated between two choices. I had received from a reliable source that I should investigate the political sphere because there was something strange within the government in place. Nonetheless, the arrival of a new managing partner disturbed me because I had doubts about him concerning his intentions towards the newspaper. I had to choose a topic soon because I had to submit my article in a few weeks.

Choice 1 : Investigate politics.

Choice 2 : Investigate on my suspicious new colleague.

Me in the process of choosing my subject for my article

Volunteering.

I finally arrived in Peru to do your volunteering. My group of volunteers who were already staying will pick me up by car. When I arrive at the camps, I are given a room in the establishment which serves as a residence for the volunteers. After long hours of sleeping poorly on planes and in the car, I collapse in my assigned bed. After this good night's sleep, my mindset is at its peak. I am ready to get to work. My job of being volunteered was to build a school for disadvantaged young people in the village where you lived. After a tiring week, me and the volunteers decided to do an activity for fun. The group persists between going hiking or going to the beach. I am someone who must decide between the two activities.

Choice 1 : Go hiking with the group

Choice 2 : Go alone on the beach

Me and my volunteer friends chatting

Travel the world.

I'm finally on the plane that will allow me to leave Canada. I decided to start my trip around the world in Florida. When I arrived at the hotel, I met a very friendly staffer. So, I made friends with him very quickly. One day, he invited me after his task that he had to do to join him at the bar in front of the hotel. I accepted his invitation. After some time waiting for him at the bar, he appears and comes to chat with me. He tells me that we have to go to get to somewhere immediately. When I arrived at this mysterious place, I found that it was an illegal party on a private beach.Though this party is illegal, I start having fun with the staffer's friends. Nevertheless, an attractive man arrives, and starts talking to me. I find him very attractive, and he asks me to follow him a little further to talk to each other in a quieter place. I don't know what to do between following this unknown man or staying at the illegal party.

Choice 1 : Stay at the illegal party.

Choice 2 : Follow the man.

The illegal party on the beach

Find a job in a restaurant.

As I decided to work in the most popular restaurant in Thetford and I have no specific training in the kitchen, I find myself washing the floors and the dishes of the restaurant. This foot in the door allowed me to learn the ropes by watching the chef. Subsequently, I reproduced what he was doing, but at home. I was able to learn and reproduce how to make pasta, cut fish and make beautiful pastries. The chef inspired me a lot, and I wanted to be like him even if several colleagues undermined him. One day, one of the biggest nights of the year, the chef was unable to cook his cream puffs perfectly. He tried hard, but it didn't work. I saw him do it, and I hesitated between giving him some tools and at the same time showing him my talents or continuing to do my tasks.

Choice 1 : Show my skills to help the cook.

Choice 2 : Stay at my place and continue what I was doing.

The chef making his pastries

Find a job in a clothing store.

After spending several days working at this clothing store, I could vaguely understand my duties because the owner talks more about her dog than anything else. During a day at work when the weather was nice outside, my boss left me alone to see if I could manage without her. So, I start to clean up, because there was no one there. I notice, however, that a dummy was badly dressed. So, I'm hesitating between dressing the model in nice clothes or leaving it that way.

Choice 1 : Dress up the dummy.

Choice 2 : Keep cleaning up.

The badly dressed dummy

Make a OJT with a notary cabinet.

During my OJT, I managed to complete several files. However, the President did not indicate to me that he wanted to see who would be better between me and another person for the vacant position in the cabinet. Though I gave everything I could during this OJT, the president decides to take the other person by bias because he is a man even if the latter does cursory work. Following this announcement, I return home maddening and reflect on how far I've come since my graduation.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

Me rethinking my life choices

Create my own notary cabinet.

I pulled off lately for my own cabinet. I finally set up my office in Quebec. I allotted time for several evenings to make my practice perfect. This is what allowed me to build a solid clientele and a rewarding career with new challenges. I like this vocational very much, but I always wonder what my life would have been as if I hadn't made this choice.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

My notary office

Investigate politics.

After days of searching, I finally found a reliable source that could point me to serious problems with the current government. This informant works for the Mafia, and he is very highly placed. He let me know that he is responsible for giving snippets to politicians. He told me that if the Mafia didn't do it. Politicians would do anything to threaten them. Following this shocking information, I wrote my article on what he gave me. It made the headlines, but found corruption in the government mean to be reprimanded. I feel followed, and I am also afraid of what could happen to me. Fortunately, I have my dog ​​to protect me.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

My dog

Investigate on my suspicious new colleague.

Looking for information on this colleague seemed daunting to me at first. Nevertheless, it has been worthwhile to look up on him. I was able to contact several people around him without him feeling aware. His neighbor and a former girlfriend told me that he never goes out at night. When they told me that, I found it very strange. So, I went to do a background check when the HR was on break. So, I dug into his file and discovered several issues he had including red eyes and white skin. Following this, I went straight to the city library to inquire about all of its information and found out that it was a vampire. Too afraid to confront him and write an article about him, I decided to write about the knitting party that was supposed to take place in a few weeks.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

My colleague

Stay at the illegal party.

After having refused, the invitation of this stranger. I went to join my hotel's staffer and his friends. Shortly after, the police arrived without warning. Everyone was running to avoid being arrested, but I froze and got arrested. When I arrived at the police station, I was charged with several charges. I also spent time in prison. The police detained me to continue my journey in the country, and I had to return to my parents. Unfortunately, he was not very happy to see me.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

My father when I arrived home

Follow the man.

The unknown man and I are directed to a restaurant a few kilometers from the illegal party. During this trip, we talked about our journey and what we liked. His name is Miguel, and we have a lot in common. We saw each other several times after that date at the restaurant. So, I stayed in Florida for several months instead of continuing my journey around the world. I found the big love with this man even though I didn't continue my journey anymore.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

Me and my man

Show my skills to help the cook.

The cook badly needed help. So, I walked over to him and took his kitchen utensils. Shocked, he started yelling at me, but I continued to do his plates. A short times later, he stopped talking, and I gave him some tools which allowed him to proceed to the ins-and-outs of his dessert. When he understood the technique, he offered me to become his apprentice, which I accepted. My thorough work allowed me to break into the field of cooking.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

The chef who shows me how to do well in the kitchen as an apprentice

Stay at my place and continue what I was doing.

The chef was far too frustrated with everyone in the kitchen for me to interfere. So, I continued to wash the floors. However, I had forgotten to put up the sign to indicate that the floors were slippery. A customer who did not see the wet floors stepped on part of the floor and fell. The client was an important man in town. He started to quibble with me when the restaurant owner arrived. The owner had no choice to fire me. The ramification of this sends me back to square one.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

The customer who fell on the floor

Dress up the dummy.

Dressing the dummy turned out to be more complex than I thought. I had to loosen and position a lot of his limbs to be able to put a new outfit on him. Some time after finishing, my boss arrived. She wasn't too happy that I was going to change her model's clothes because it wasn't my role to do. Nevertheless, a lady came to my rescue. This lady turned out to be a fashion designer, and she was blown away by the choice of clothes I had put on the dummy. Following this meeting, she gave me her phone number, so that I could call her and show her what I am capable of. It was a fulfillment for me to have dared something. Even if people working in fashion have a lot of drive of work, I would like to follow in my footsteps.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

The mannequin that I dressed

Keep cleaning up.

After rubbing well in the clothing store, my boss arrived. She was proud of the state of her store which was clean and tidy. A few minutes later, a group of women arrived. They tried everything in their path even if it didn't suit them. There were a few minutes left before closing, and they were still there. The store was a mess, and I couldn't close leaving it like that. When the ladies left, my boss left with them, and I picked myself up alone to pick up this mess after the scheduled closing time. So, I had to work overtime. Luckily, I was paid.

Choice 1 : The fateful moment.

The store after the passage of the group of women

Go hiking with the group.

The weather was nice outside, it was perfect for hiking. We headed down a trail leading up a mountain. He was very rough. At some point, we found a cave. We were very curious about our find, so we decided to dig inside. We followed a dark path and came to a room. We then searched it and discovered a chest. We were all amazed by our discovery, and we expected to have found a treasure. It was not the case. When we opened the chest, a note was written stating that we had had bad luck and that someone had passed before us to recover the treasure. I who thought I would become the next Indiana Jones, I was disappointed.

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The cave that me and my friends explored

Go alone on the beach.

Since the weather was nice outside, I decided to go to the beach to take advantage of this day. I was alone on the beach sunbathing when suddenly I heard someone sing. I looked everywhere to find the person when finally I found the person who singing. It was a mermaid on the rocks near where I was sunbathing. I could not believe my eyes. So, I took a picture of it to see if it were a real one, and I published this photo on social networks. I was getting comments saying that the photo was too vaguely and that there were boundaries to a mythical creature existing. So, My volunteer friends laugh at me for a long time, and it even became a joke between us, but I'm sure I saw a mermaid that day.

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The picture I took of the mermaid