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 I have been employed! I got a job at my jiu jitsu gym. This is a dream come true. My first job is doing something I love. I feel so grown up. I have only gone a few days so far. For most of it I have been learning how to work with little kids. Now I was a junior instructor which is just a kid volunteer instructor, so I did already have some experience teaching children, old and young. Even some adults. So I feel like I did a good job and it come naturally. My strengths that I and my boss have noticed is that I am compassionate with the kids and I am able to connect well with them. My boss says it's because I have a tender heart, but I think it's mostly because I am a total kid at heart. Maybe it's both. But I will say I am good at connecting with the kids. Although it is covid and I have to wear a mask while teaching, I've learned that if the kids can see my smile while I am teaching them then they are more open to listening. Although I am good with the kids that is no...

 This blog about considering the ethics of choices and actions is going to be deep. Recently I just had a philosophy J-Term class that went into many things one of them being moral ethics. We also got to watch some episodes from the Good Place. Which I have seen before because it was one of my favorite shows but then we had a seminar to go super duper in depth into the different moral philosophical things that were brought up in the show. One thing that really stood out to me was how one of the articles we read about the show was how people who make a choice or commit an action with good intentions but a bad result doesn't mean that they are bad people. It was the doctrine of double effect that the result and the intention should be judged on different scales. So that if the consequences were bad it shouldn't be blamed on the person who had good intentions. Now that doesn't mean everything you do with bad consequences is your fault because you should think about the consequ...