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I am a Chinese, and I have a common name called “mei ling” in Chinese. My name is means beautiful and successful. This is my parent’s goal for me, and I try to make the significant meaning of my name come true by achieve more about my future.

       When I was 2 years old, my father moved to America for a better life, unfortunately, he had car accident when I was 5 years old (1997), he had physical illness since that car accident and he have to stay at hospital, this means my father could no longer make money. So to take care of me and my brother becomes my mother’s responsibilities.

My mother was a hard worker, she usually works at the mosquito net factory, and her job is to sew the mosquito net with long, overlying stitches. I usually helped her to put on the plastic flower at the top of the mosquito net, and I never complain about it because I like to relief my mother’s tension from working. But soon my mother had the disease so she could no longer working, our life is getting worst than before. Even our life is poor, my mother never try to cut off my education, because to her, knowledge would change everything, she told me that it does not matter if we eat and dress well or not, I have to get the education. I learned it from my mother that the only turning point for my future is to getting the education. If I have knowledge more and I can protect my mother more. And I did well at my elementary school, junior high. I joined a lot of school activities, most of them are to help classmates to understand more about art, and I was also a Chinese tutor when I was at junior high. Most of my teacher suggests me to be a teacher since I like to talk to people and to help people.

When I was 15 years old, my mother, my brother, and I moved to America. For me and my brother, our goals is to get a better education, for my mother, the goal is to take care of my father and let us understand more about the “family happiness”.

During the first semester of Lafayette High School I felt I was useless because I did not speak English at all, so I have to learn it from the beginning. To learn the second language is full of obstacles, I get average of 55% for my first semester; I felt the end of the earth was coming. So I struggled from learning the English and I finally find the right way of to study the English, that is, reading more English literature, speaking more in English, and to practice writing in English. Then I achieved my part of goal that I graduated from Lafayette High School in 3 years. I automatically applied to Baruch College because I want to learn more about business then have my own business and to make a better life for my family members.

Most of people around me know that I am a very hardworking and like challenges. I believe that challenge would make me grow more. I learned from my mother that as you do more, you’re achieved more, so I work part-time while attending school full-time as well. I appreciate the valuable experience I get working and I benefit from it as much as I benefit from school. While attending school full-time, I have to work 35 hours a week at nails salon and at the SEEK office of Baruch College. I have to work because my mother has business at China and she usually go back to China about 6 months then she will come back to America to see if I am doing well or not. There has not enough time for me to study. When I look around at the other students studying and I feel envious and even angry, but I know that the work experiences teaches me things that these other students will be unlikely to learn.

Mei Ling Chen

824 44st Brooklyn New York 11220

(646)-288-4145,Email: [email protected]

Education:

Baruch College, New York, NY

Work Experience

Feb 2006-May 2006

• Cashier in the glass store

June 2006- Sep 2006

• Cashier in the Japanese Restaurant

June 2007- Present

• Manicure& Pedicure

Volunteer Leadership:

January 2006- June 2006

• Server of Chinese-American Association
• Translator of Chinese-American Organization

Sep 2006-Mar 2007

• Dance teacher of Lafayette High School

Apirl 2007-June 2008

• Principle of Chinese club of Lafayette High School

Sep 2008-June 2009

• Chinese tutor and math tutor of Lafayette High School

Nov 2009

• Asian Women Suicide Workshop

Mar 2010

• Diabetes

Skills:

Computer: Microsoft Work,Excel, Graph

Languages: Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Fuzhouness.

My dream is to become a Management Accountants, according to the websites of United States Department of Labor, the standard of to be a Management Accountants includes: record and analyze the financial information of the companies for which they work. This means to be a Management Accountants I have to be patient and careful, I think I can deal with it because I am very patient and careful to read the information. Second, Among Management Accountant’s other responsibilities are budgeting, performance evaluation, cost management, and asset management. Usually, management accountants are part of executive teams involved in strategic planning or the development of new products, which means Management Accountants, is a brain job and I think my brain’s structure is okay because I always bring the new idea whether at school or at home. Third, they analyze and interpret the financial information that corporate executives need to make sound business decisions, they also prepare financial reports for other groups, including stockholders, creditors, regulatory agencies, and tax authorities, this means if I want to have this job I have to express the information clearly, and I like to express and explain the thing that I see or hear, so I think I will make it.

Most of the people who know about me say that I am smart and a former of ideas, and I took the Strong Interest Inventory, my top five interest areas are: sales, Taxes and Accounting, Teaching and Education, Office Management, Protective Services, and if I want to be a member of these careers, I have to do more activities for example as Career- related employment, internship, co-operative education according to Career Discovery by Baruch College. According to Strong Interest Inventory, my career area is Conventional, Enterprising, and Social, and these not a big different from my alternative careers.

Reference:

 “Accountants and Auditors.” Baruau of Labor Statistic. 17 Dec. 2009. Web. 06 Mar. 2010.

“Career Discovery” by Baruch College. 06 Mar. 2010

“Strong Interest Inventory” by Jeffrey P. Prince. 06 Mar. 2010