Journal 9 - David

 David Miller

English 1109.01   Mon, Wen

12/03/2020

Journal 9

For this essay we will discuss one of the most impactful chapters to me throughout Callings, By David Isay. To me the chapter I never want to forget is the Ironworker chapter. The two men, Kerry and Ken both enjoyed their jobs, but there was more. They liked to feel helpful to people who were low added on to the original responsibility of doing their job. Ken even says, “Some people call us Guardians of the Gate, and that’s nice to hear. It feels good.” (Isay 124). These men inspire me to do more than what is required in my job and my daily life.

The next topic we will be discussing is two of the many projects I watched my peers present. Personally, I thought many of my classmates did a great job, so even if they are not on here that doesn’t mean I found it bad. The two that stuck out to me was Judson’s presentation on Neonatal Nursing and Isaac’s presentation on Taxidermy. The reason I picked these two was because they both had so much passion for their topics. Judson used a topic that he was interested in and used videos, online sources and personal experience into his presentation which made it very interesting. Judson’s was the same way. He looked into something he is passionate about and would like to learn a lot more about in his presentation. He was very clear on how broad the career could be and how we could always have a use for the career. All in all these two were very good presentations, it made listening to the presentations very interesting when they had a lot of time put into them like these two.

inspire me to do more than what is required in my job and my daily life.

This is a picture of Ironworkers at work building a bridge.
It really shows how dangerous it can be.