Tag: education

In San Angelo, the first income I generated alone was by making and selling beaded bracelets and necklaces. When I was 15, I volunteered at a hospital and for the first time learned that the elderly love me (I have since learned that children, the elderly and dogs and cats all love me, whereas anybody close to my age is not so optimistic). When I was 16, I got my first job at K-Mart and was fired for selling cigarettes to my underaged friend (who coincidentally had the same last name as me). I then got a job at Sitel as a telemarketer which I did until I graduated high school. After I moved to San Antonio to go to college and live with my mother, I got a job as a telemarketer at West. I learned and acquired amazing skills of persuasion, just by using my voice and some basic selling techniques, which I still utilize to this day, just not for money unfortunately. During my first two years at college and while working at West, I was also practicing my ass off to become a great musician, playing the guitar, the bouzouki, the bass, percussion and singing. We got so good that for about two years I got to quit telemarketing and just focus on playing music professionally, a truly amazing experience worthy of its own blog post. After a four month stay with my family in Chile, I came back to San Antonio, played with the band for the remainder of the year, then retired, selected my majors (English and Philosophy, minor in Music) and got a job at Barnes & Noble for a semester. I then took over a landscaping business and ran it for 3 years, where I had off every winter (3-4 months) to read, write, travel, think and do whatever I wanted. I then moved to New York to study for my master’s (PhD at the time) and live with my brother. I got a job as an adjunct lecturer of English at New York Institute of Technology, a job I had the entire time in New York, teaching at other locations as well (Kingsborough, Medgar Evers). During my year in Boston, I was finishing my second master’s from NYU, tried to find work but failed; I ended up doing an unpaid summer internship at a translation company. After aliyah, I got a job working as a linguistic editor at a startup called Time To Know (now Enabley) where I worked for under a year, when I got a job as a legal editor at the IP law firm Gilat Bareket where I worked for seven years. I then continued being a legal translator at Copylawyer, where I work to this day.