How I hope to use my college education
In college, I studied computer science. The course enables the use of algorithms to manipulate, store and communicate digital information. Computer science is divided between theoretical and practical disciplines and is an active and vibrant field especially with new changes in technology happening every dawn. This area of focus enables a student to have a strong foundation for work in areas including but not limited to mathematics, social sciences, natural sciences, and arts. The course puts a student at a better position to interact with other fields without the feeling of inadequacy. I have been involved in competitions at the college with other students from other universities, and I have managed to brainstorm and benchmark to know precisely the department of computer science that I intend to fully immerse myself in.
I am interested in data presentation and databases, which is mostly involved in how information is represented for other people who are not computer literate to understand and depict easily. In this specific field, I hope to help business people easily market their products using image representations and enable them detect errors that occur in their businesses. For most business people, they do not have a well outlined manner to input the commodities they have. Unfortunately, those who are willing to install these soft wares for tracking what is bought and sold tend to ask for more money than most businesses are making. Such high installation prices make the entrepreneurs to prefer doing without them. With lack of necessary skills to run their businesses, their employees easily steal from them because there is no way to track how items were sold or bought. Consequently, such incidences has led many businesses to close down as they are making more and more losses. I therefore hope to use my college information to make such services affordably available for the small scale and upcoming enterprises.
With the help of my college education, I will train people on how to do merchandise stocking correctly and how to track and manage errors in their businesses. With such skills instilled to entrepreneurs, no money or items will be stolen from them because they can easily go back and check the activities of a specific day. Entrepreneurs will also be able to check if they are making losses or profits, which can make them to decide seeking the right help to make their businesses improve. I hope that my college education in computer science will make businesses in my area and its environ a little bit safer to venture in than the status quo.
During the holidays, weekends and after school, I work with my father in a grocery store just a few blocks from our home. Working with my father has really helped me garner the skills that can only be passed on from an experienced figure. I work as both a merchandise stocker and cashier. Working as a merchandise stocker helps me utilize the skills I have learnt in school as it even led me to prepare a new system of taking stock for the business. However, it is now easy to keep track of what is almost over and what is in excess ensuring that we do not understock or overstock. As a cashier, I have learnt to be keen, which is an attribute that I did not have before but luckily, I can now be patient with myself and other clients. Managing to do both merchandise stocking and working as a cashier also allows me to become more responsible because I have to ensure that I manage both without forgetting the other.