Thanks madam
Toastmaster, fellow toastmasters and distinguished guests.
Today, I’m gonna talk
about my first salary, I will explain how
it feels when you earn your first salary, but before moving to
the intend of my speech let me introduce my self.
My name is Gilson
Adao, I was born in Malange long time ago, I belong to a large family, my
father was a really good baby maker so I have 9 siblings, I’m trying to follow
his steps, but I’m kind of slow, so far I have a daughter. I have a bachelor
degree in Environmental engineering.
Moving on, I have
decided to work, when I was at 2nd year of university, I wanted to
be independent and I had also my personal things to buy. At that time, I was
looking for small jobs that would allow me to do both things in parallel, I was
looking to 400 ou 500 pay job. I was so blessed that appears a job with higher
pay than I was expected, so I signed the scholarship program with Exxon in
December 2007, and at that time Exxon was offering 1200 to learn English during
12 months, I didn’t think twice and accepted the job.
I received the first pay on January 27, 2008. And it was really a
memorable day, I was already in school learning English, I remember this day
like today, I was so anxious to go to the bank and make transfer to my family
to celebrate this moment. I was educated
that the first salary should be spent with family in order to be blessed. I had
made my plans with 1200, and I wanted to send half of my pay to my family.
So, I went to the bank
and I asked for the account balance, when I received the paper it was showing
700$, I asked the teller to check again, and it was 700, so the teller printed
the bank statement and it was 700, at first, I felt so disappointed, I thought
that there was a mistake or something, I went and talk to another colleague and
he received as well the same amount. I just went back to the bank and
transferred 300 $ to my sister to distribute along the family.
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