Personal Narrative: My Professional Writing Experience

In a professional environment, there are many supervisors who have little to no writing experience before they start a management position. This largely attributed to employees of companies maintaining a high work ethic for many years and proving they have what it takes to take over these leading roles (Mabrito, 1997). When these employees started their jobs they likely did not have the expectation that they would move to such an important role in the company so furthering their education after high school was not a priority. This can cause a poor representation of the company from the less than professional writing skills a person may have. For these businesses, it would be beneficial to actively seek out employees who they see potential in and send them to further their writing

In late 2016 I started a job as a diesel mechanic. This was a fairly new experience for me and I had some idea of what I was getting into (e.g. heavy lifting and troubleshooting problems drivers have on the road). What I didn’t expect is writing complete and detailed accounts of what problems I found and how I went about fixing them. With my limited writing experience in a professional workplace this was difficult. I was unsure how I was expected to write and had to ask other employees for advice on multiple occasions. My verbal communication and personal relation skills were something that I had always prided myself on so when it came to my poor writing skill I was not satisfied. After a year of work, I felt like I had come along way, but was still not on the level I wanted to be on. I had been consistently communicating