My first professional job after high school was as a Correctional Officer for the State of Texas, where I worked for two and a half years. While there, I learned a lot about all varieties of people, including the inmates and other officers. I quickly learned what type of person I am and how to stand by my morals in high stress environments. Luckily, I had some amazing supervisors to learn and take inspiration from. Contrastingly, I was also surrounded by people who I learned to absolutely not take lessons from, including both inmates and staff. I feel well adept in handling difficult situations with a calm and swift response. I realized that working in the prison system was not what I wanted to do with my career, and I believed that going back to school was the next step for me. My mother, who had recently moved to Oregon, told me that the hospital she worked at offered free education to employees and dependents, and that there was an as a Support Technician in Radiology. In the year that I worked there, I learned that an entirely new part of me existed. I was already well-versed in leadership and was familiar with having large responsibilities. At the prison, I was required to gain the respect of the inmates I was in charge of and to enforce the duties they were responsible for, which were just as much my responsibility as theirs. However, at the hospital I had to learn new ways of interacting with people, which, in a way, were more difficult than the interactions I had with inmates. For patients, you have to coerce them into things and be much more gentle and caring. You have to talk them through what is happening and be honest about their procedure. As much as my jobs have been about being in a leadership role, I have had to be supportive and caring in both of them. I believe that in order to get something accomplished properly you need to be open about the process and procedures as much as you can to the person you are talking to. Unfortunately, the state of Oregon was not the right fit for my family, but luckily for us, Rivian opened up another path and has allowed me to move back to the state where I was born and raised.
Over the course of my year and a half of working for TDCJ I was tasked with performing many challenging duties, from responding to fights to breaking up said fights. Most of my job required me to supervise inmates for the protection of both them and the general public. COVID-19 has been a challenge for my job because the inmates are not allowed to work. Thus, the officers had to unload semi trucks, clean the unit, do general maintenance, and do other physical labor that I never thought I would be tasked to complete as a correctional officer. Some other tasks that came with my job were,
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