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College Admissions Essay: My First Day Of Work
Have you ever had to make a hard decision or pick between two things and you make the wrong choice? I have and it led to one of the most difficult times in my life. On February 27 of 2016 Leon Merle Eppenbaugh, the man that I considered a father, died in a hospital bed with his entire family around him with the exception of me. Where was I? I was an hour into my first day of work. Sometime in the later months of 2015 I decided that it was time to get a job and I was actually excited about it. Lee always joked about how nobody would hire me and if somebody did then they were one desperate sucker. Even though we constantly joked about it, I was serious and I knew that he would be proud when I got one. I spent two agonizing weeks filling out

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