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What was the most dangerous thing you ever did?
Not being the physical type, I think for me it was filling out an application for my first teaching job out of college. At the bottom of the form was the question "Could you teach a violin class?" As I had played the violin for years, it was easy to answer that "yes". Next came "Could you lead an elementary school orchestra?" This stopped me for a while. But then I figured I had played in an elementary school orchestra, as well as in several others, so I answered "yes". There was one more question. "Could you direct an elementary school chorus?" This took me very little time to answer. I figured if I could do those other two things, there was no reason I couldn't do that.
On that basis, I got a job as a music teacher in an elementary school. It was a dream come true for me. Before school started up in the fall, I took music education classes all summer, and even learned, among other things, to play the string bass. When I was assigned to a school, I was so lucky as to have a wonderful music supervisor, who helped me learn whatever I still needed to. I loved my time as music teacher, taught children how to play all kinds of instruments, led the band, taught music in each classroom, and led a chorus. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Sometimes taking a risk pays off.
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I would have to say the time I went sky diving in Africa, over Victoria Falls. The drop was over 400 feet, and they wrapped hand towels, plain old buy them at any store, hand towels around your ankles to keep the bungee from slipping off your feet. They also recommend that you tie your shoes really tight for the same reason!! I am normally not afriad of heights or adventuresome activites, but when my mom saw me on the video she barly recognized me because I was so nervousand unlike myself!! In the end, they had to push me off, I screamed the whole way down, and spun around at the end of the line for a while. Eventually someone comes down the line to help straighten you out. Then you have to climb under this 400 feet high bridge onto a ricky old stairway to get back onto the bridge. I don't know if it was the most dangerous, but it certainly was the most scary!!
Good God,eesmall!
"comment deleted?" C'mon, author, take a risk!
I bought Martha Stewart stock at the original IPO.
Some risks don't turn out as well as others.
Actually Uncle Matt so did I - only it was with pretend money. Martha Stewart IPO happened during my junior year of high school, while I was in an econ class. We played a "real" stock game where we have $100,000 of imaginary money adn we track our investments over a period of 6 weeks or so. It's actually a contest between a few different schools - needless to say my team didn't win!
When I began to looking for a computer marketing representative job in Bangkok ( I came from a small town). The two skills on my resume that I wasn't qualified for were speaking English and knowing basic computer.
The night before the interview day, I prepared a paragraph of an introduction about myself in English and read an article about basic computer. Finally, the day came, I was asked many questions from the human resource staff including the last one. He asked me "Can you speak English?" I said "yes". He continued" Tell me about yourself in English?" I smiled and repeated every sentence I memorized to him. He looked at me with satisfied eyes and said " O.K. the next step, please take this folder and go to interview with the computer manager at the fifth floor". I thanked him and walked away with the folder in my hand. On the way down, I peaked into the folder, and I saw his comment on my evaluation including good in English communication. After I arrived at the room of the computer manager, we accidently found we graduated from the same college. So, our conversations were all about our school and ended up with the amount of the salary I would get. My computer career experiences started from this point.
I knew that it was a risk to write down unqualified abilities in my resume. I had no way out. It was my first interview in the capital and I wanted to get a job in a large corporation with benefits. These companies all required English and computer skills. If I didn't pass the interview, all I thought was only "at least I will try and experience it".
To eesmall,
You did it again, an adventure girl. I wish I am as brave as you are.
There are all kinds of being brave. I think leaving your country and coming to a strange land where you hardly know anybody is pretty darn brave, too. I am glad that you did it and ended up as part of this family.
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