Reflective Statement

          I had another important relationship with my coworkers. In many cases we had to cooperate to get the job done. As I worked more with these people, this got easier. This relationship isn’t quite a friendship, but I learned a lot about the people I worked with. As I am finding out now, these relationships are important to finding a job after college. These people can give an honest and real opinion of me that will help a potential employer to learn about me.
            As a person, this experience has shown me some of the things that I think are important the main one being my family. This experience has also helped me to shape my personality. When I first started the job, someone could describe me as very shy. By the time I finished working at the nursing home, I had opened up and I could strike of conversations with people I didn’t even know. These interactions have allowed me to unlock a part of me that did not want to come out. Now I would describe myself as a very friendly and personable individual. That quality helps when dealing with people.
            As a sociologist, the experience has helped me to learn about relationships; especially those that I have learned about in class. Reflecting on this helps to put some of the ideas and theories I have learned in to perspective. Some of the ideas I learned in class help to explain some of the thing I saw and experienced while working at a nursing home. I saw first hand how relationships worked, and now I understand why these relationships were the way they were.             Now that I am completing my sociological requirements at UI, I have the knowledge to look at situations in a different way. I use what I learned in class to evaluate relationships and react accordingly. Sociology allows me to look at situations from a different perspective which I understand. I can use this knowledge to continue to effectively interact with people.      

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