I know life isn't meant to be easy, but I think if you have the right attitude even the difficult parts can be a pleasure.

I hope I am facing every day with the best possible attitude I can muster. I feel like in my environment it's all I can do, because if I don't I'll just fall down and never get back up. Sometimes I get tired of it, of always looking for the positive and of trying my best, but what else can you do? I've seen people take several alternatives and it's not pretty! I hope sometimes I'm doing it right. What if my frame of mind is completely wrong? What happens then? But I only worry for a second before I tell myself "Hey, you're doing pretty well for yourself!"

I might not be rich or famous... but then again why would I want to be? Fame and fortune doesn't equate to success in my books. Sometimes I have to remind myself exactly why I am successful, and I think that's what this post is all about, so excuse me if I sound like I'm gloating... I'm just trying to reassure myself I'm on the right path. Recently I've learned a lot of lessons I will keep with me for life. I've learned these lessons in a place I never thought I wold, my workplace. Not only am I trained on how to be an electrician, I'm being trained on how to be successful, happy, grateful, carefree, confident, friendly, patient and so many other things I just never thought would stem from a job.

I'm a woman in a man's world... and I love it! I've never felt more like I'm making a difference than I do in this job. I hope one day I can be called one of the pioneer females in the trades industry. I hope I can be an example to others, and I hope I'm representing my gender in a way that deserves respect from my colleagues. I try my best and so far the responses I'm getting from my superiors and workmates tells me that I am more than capable to do this job.

I think this has shaped my character in many positive ways. I've become much more confident in myself, and can easily carry out a conversation with a stranger. I've leaned not to take other people's opinions so seriously, because in the end my opinion is the only one that's going to affect me. I've learned too many lessons to list and met so many wonderful people.. and I'm only a second year apprentice! At one point I wanted to chuck this job in, I hated it and I wanted to quit, the best lesson I've learned is that you dont know what each new day will bring, and if you shy away from it you never will. It could be the best day of your life but if you aren't brave enough to get up and face the challenges then you won't ever receive the blessings. My job is a blessing that I deserve because I kept getting up, kept suffering, until one day it wasn't so bad, and then the next day it was fun, soon after it was a pleasure and now I wouldn't have it any other way.