written account of MY own life
Hi everyone, please help me to check my autobiography.
My interest in business administration started very early, in the first year of primary school. The business and management spirit developed inside of me through all stages of my education. It didn't meet my parents' great approval because it led me to leave many obligatory classes and forced me to catch up with my lessons during free time.
First few months of attending primary school were very important to me. We had to know each other well and chose among us 3 people who would be responsible for the class in a different field. Of course my dream was to become class president, unfortunately, my friends chose me for the treasurer position. Why? Because I was only one pupil in the class who has never be late. I always knew how much money I can spend on snacks at school and I have never borrowed money from my friends, but I often lent the money instead of spending on my own needs. Became the class treasurer hadn't stopped me from engaging in general management class matters. I was the initiator of writing a class chronicle of events that took place during 6 years of attending to the Primary School. In 4 year I become school vice-president one year later, school president. I had a lot of responsibilities that time not only taking care of school from students sight but also improving my skills and knowledge to satisfy my adventurous personality. I was very curious about everything so I attended many extra-curricular activities such as European Union class, math class, painting class, school choir, and more. I even attended an extra history class despite the fact that I didn't like history.
In my junior high school I became the chairman of the school very soon and unfortunately, Headmaster quickly moved me to the position of vice president. The truth is, it wasn't surprising to anyone. In my junior high school, I took part in international exchanges between Poland and other countries from Europe. I have been in Hungary, Italy, Sweden, and Lithuania. That time was extremely amazing for me. I not only improved my English language but also I gain a lot of knowledge about different cultures. I become much more open-minded, self-confident and brave than I had been before. My frequent trips have taught me discipline, which later helped me to make up for outstanding topics at school. Probably thanks to this I went to one of the best high schools in my city which brings me a lot of learning and not enough free time.
For almost everyone, high school time on the beginning means more parties, friends, lovers and less studying because teenagers feel more like adults than children. Of course, I belonged to this kind of "young adults". I did not want to get involved in school matters as I did before, I wanted to be as cool as most of my friends, that is, school is less important, relationships and friends are important. This time I wasn't a member of the school self-government and I didn't have to devote time to inventing and organizing interesting school actions, but I took part in international exchange as I did before. I really like the multicultural environment and I couldn't let it go. In high school, we were allowed to take part in this kind of activities only once a year for two first years. I got a chance to go to Germany two times. I really enjoyed it, because I could improve my German language. Nevertheless, I felt the inner emptiness not engaging in the life of the school, but it turned out for good.
I entered a university which I want to and studied International Economic Relation with specialization International Business. I wanted to become independent very quickly so I also started working as an office assistant with the first year of studies. Working and studying at the same time didn't allow me to focus on schools activities, but every cloud has a silver lining. I could develop my skills and use business knowledge in practice. Thanks to that, I learned a lot more than I could in my studies.
After gained a bachelor degree I started master studies in Management and learn Chinese (Asia is my another whole life hobby, but this topic is for another long essay ). During the first year of my master studies, I had also attended one-year postgraduate studies majored in International Business between the European Union and China. After postgraduate studies, I obtained a Chinese Scholarship and I had been spending in China two years studied Chinese. I had to take one gap year on my master studies in Poland for the first year of scholarship in Guangzhou on South China Normal University. The second year of my Polish studies I finished during Chinese language studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. That helped me to do the research for my master thesis project.
Almost for the whole of my life, I had to do a few things at the same time. Now is the same the more activates which are the hobbies I have the more effective and happy I am. From childhood to today I am a very organized person who likes adventures and adrenaline. My character and way of life are shaped all my life. From the beginning, my path leads me in the direction of research in the management field. This is what I am also bringing wonderful people to me, who become my friends and sometimes even mentors. One of this kind of person is my ex-boss.
After graduation, I got a job in a small Chinese company in Guangzhou. I worked as an Office General Director for over a year. My responsibilities were managing the whole company and creating strategic plans for future sales and preparing reports about company monthly income. What else I had to do was market research for our clients. Thanks to this job, I gain a new friend who was my boss, now ex-boss. He already manages more than ten companies all over the world and obtained P.hD. degree. The Chinese market is a big passion for him so small business in China was enough. That is why he didn't want to extend his small enterprise and couldn't give me more opportunities to develop my skills. We both knew that I needed to acquire more and more knowledge. This person also contributed to mobilizing me for further study.
The whole family also supports me in my choices, sometimes advise me, sometimes negate what I want to do in the future, but in the end, they always keep their fingers crossed for me. To have people in my surrounding who supports me is also very important. I am the youngest in my family and the only one who travels so bravely. Everyone knows that I am always looking for knowledge and I want to develop my skills. I believe my determination will help me achieve my goals. On the contrary, success is also about recognizing my weaknesses and accepting support from people who genuinely want to help me. For instance, if it were not for my parents' support of my educational endeavors, I would perhaps not be able to achieve as much as I did until now.Hello @agenishi,
After reading your autobiography, i have some questions and feedback:
1. What kind of PhD program are you applying for? I can sense that it might be related with business administration but it helps the forum to give more suitable feedback knowing the program & university info.
2. You started with saying that your interest in business administration started very early but you have only mentioned being a treasurer and then you mentioned several leadership positions but nothing more related with business administration.
3. Also, i don't think that the terms "school vice-president", "president", and " chairman of the school" is correct. Is it a position within the student body?
4. In overall, i think your autobiography is lacking of focus. Try highlighting just 1-2 roles or phases in your life that you think would support your PhD candidacy in both academic and professional experience.
Hope it helps! Good luck!
thank you so much for your feedback.
1. I am applying for PhD in business administration on Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, where I want to focus on business strategies , management strategies.
3. I dont know also if the terms, which I used : "school vice-president", "president", and " chairman of the school"are correct. ti is a position within the student body, sth like student organization, which is responsible for "students rights" at school, events for students , meetings, parties etc.
