Hi! I’m JC and I’m exploring three life designs. One in the mental health field. One in the software and artificial intelligence field. One as a professional Polynesian dancer.
THREE STORIES One for each field.
MENTAL HEALTH I had a patient I’ll name Edna. Edna was in the hospital for weeks and the staff said she was cognitively unresponsive and essentially a “Vegetable.” As we transferred her from hospital bed to gurney the other EMT’s and some nurses were indifferent to her care. They lacked compassion. I, on the other hand, communicated to her, not knowing if she actually heard me. As caregiver during transport, I would let her know when we would hit a bump in the road and to hold on because we’re almost to her home. I felt the need to treat her as a regular human being and not a transaction. When we transferred care to her family, she looked at me and said, “Thank you.”
SOFTWARE and AI It was a couple of years ago when I was searching for a job and the only way I knew how was to write a customized cover letter, a customized resume, and hope for the best. I began to search the internet looking for a faster way to do this when I came across a manual for Applescript, Apple’s automation scripting language. It’s a program to automate repetitive tasks like cutting and pasting text, but the cool thing is that you can use it across most programs on the Mac. So with Applescript I developed a script that cuts data from Microsoft Excel and pastes it to Mail.app and attaches a different resume depending on the job posting requirements. The result would be a hiring manager would get an applicant that appeared to have spent hours on this specific cover letter and resume, thus boosting my chances. It took me about a month teaching myself and testing. Two days of it working pass and I had sent out 220 resumes, had a bunch of inquiries, then had 2 job offers that competed to give me my highest salary ever.
POLYNESIAN DANCE If money and image were no object, I’d love to just live by dancing. One of my all time favorite things to do while I’m on stage is to slow down and look at the faces of my fellow dancers. Some are very concentrated and some are just smiling. At this point in time I’m the most content and happy. Why wouldn’t I want to do this forever?