Week 5: Grateful

I am grateful for Ms. Horton because she helped me make the internship possible, my supervisors at Cake Art Supplies (Katie & Maria), Professor Duran & Mr. Morales for the educational classes, my family, friends, and life it's self. The experiences I am grateful for this summer are the internship at Cake Art Supplies, the classes at the Summer Career Academy, and getting accepted to 10,000 Degrees. I am lucky to have had to learn about financial planning because it made me realize that being an adult isn't easy and money can be wasted in such a short period of time. I am lucky to have had the opportunity to intern at Cake Art Supplies because it showed me how it would be if I had a job and that you can get very creative when decorating. Also, I loved working with the kids and eating some of the edible creations!

Prompt #5

One thing that I am grateful for from class this summer is waybook. I am very grateful for all the things it had to offer me. I really enjoyed the surveys it had me take on my personality and strengths, and I feel that i learned a few new things about myself from it. I also appreciated the discoveries as a way to write down what I was trying to process in my head, making things much easier. Often times things got jumbled in my head and the discoveries helped me to express this feeling and make it less confusing. Lastly I was grateful to be able to set my short and long term goals in my waybook. It's nice to have everything that I hope to accomplish and how to get there all in the same place.

I am grateful that I was given the opportunity this summer to work with kids. Working with children is something I really enjoy and I appreciate the fact that I was able to do this for fun. I am grateful for every single one of the kids in my camp for each one has taught me at least one valuable lesson. I also thank my supervisor for allowing me to work with these kids and have a great summer.

Grateful

This summer has been going great so far. The internship sure did make it fun and useful. I have learned many things from my internship, class, and myself. I am very grateful first of all for the opportunity of having an internship and these classes over the summer. I really appreciated the budget lesson, and the discovery lessons. The discovery lessons made me realize much more about myself that I didn't know about. The class overall was packed with great lessons and assignments. My internship was also great! I appreciated working alongside babies and the staff. Everyone was very sweet and patient with me. The babies rarely threw a fit. It was just sp amazing working with everyone. I am just really glad I got this opportunity.

1. If you put $500 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 18 years old, and add $50 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (50 years later)?

     ~$822.32. I'm surprised because it looks like you'll be saving quite a good amount of money so I expected to have more money but I guess not.

2. If you put $500 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 30 years old, and add $50 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (38 years later)?

~$59,016.94.  That's a lot of money!!!

3. If you put $500 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 40 years old, and add $50 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (28 years later)?

~$30,076.26

Savings and Credit Interest using the Compond Interest Calculator

1. If you put $500 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 18 years old, and add $50 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (50 years later)? 
$39,500.23

2. If you put $500 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 30 years old, and add $50 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (38 years later)?

$28,301.40

3. If you put $500 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 40 years old, and add $50 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (28 years later)?

 $19,938.10

4. If you put $5000 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 30 years old, and add $500 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (50 years later)?

$283,013.98

5. If you put $5000 into a regular savings account in the bank when you are 40 years old, and add $500 each month, how much will you have when you are 68 years old (28 years later)?

$199,381.03

 This makes me think that if I maintain a similar savings pattern, I will have a substantial amount of money saved up in my future.

Grateful

I'm so grateful for being able to be apart of an internship this summer, also being apart of this class for my internship.  I learned so much, like how to be professional basically for everything.  Being in this internship also made me realize who I really wanted to be, I was so scared that I was never going to find out how I wanted to live m life and now I do.

Week #5: Grateful For

   I am grateful that I live in such a prosperous community and that I get to benefit from the wonderful College and Career Center Program and get an internship. I am thankful for my liaison, Greg Davison, who got me my internship at PaperSeed Foundation with Aliyya Shelley Mattos. I have learned that I can be lazy when it comes to continuously checking my email and phone. I learned a lot about how to be professional in a workplace environment. I enjoyed learning about social media and marketing and I feel I would have been much less confident if I hadn't had the class. Professor Duran and Morales were wonderful teachers and I enjoyed all of their feedback they gave. I know that if I hadn't thought of the future and planned anything out, even if it was a plan that was unlikely for me to actually do, I would never have done it. I would never have thought of property taxes, or how buying soap and toilet paper would all add up. 

  I liked taking the quizzes because I got some unexpected results. Once I got a 33, and it told me that anything above a 32 meant you were autistic or had Asperger's, which I don't think I have. I already knew how to used google drive, but google sites and blogger were both completely new. I liked how people would read and comment on my blog posts and I would do the same with them. I learned what skills I lack, and what my strong suits are from analyzing the Career Readiness Skills. This class was helpful in making me thing of the future and other concepts I have ignored up until now. My internship taught me about professionalism and how to communicate effectively. I was given opportunities that are not available to most people. I am lucky and very thankful for the wonderful summer I have had working and going to class.