MPC Job Descriptions Using the 10 hundred most common English words

1. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I work at the computer all day making the world look pretty by taking pictures and putting words around them….. I make their eyes feel happy.” -Jeanette Haxton, Office of Public Information

2. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I help people when they are hurt, sad, or want to know more about bad things in your body … Smiles are the a good way to fix some of these problems.”-Kelly Eyler, Health Services Specialist

3. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “Students want to learn about computers … I help them. I listen when students lose hope and want to throw a computer out the window. I try to talk them out of it.”-Steve Bruemmer, Instructional Tech Specialist

4. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words I show people how to do the art of making pictures. The first thing we learn are the ways to make pictures and how to use a box to make pictures … The person making pictures can look at their world through this box and use it to say ideas about the world. -Kevin Bransfield, Photography Instructor

5. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “…This is a key question: why, knowing what we know, we accept business as usual? The round ball we live on wonders, as do the other animals still here with us, the trees that remain, lands where now there is only smoke, the big waters that may have no little animals left by the time you read this … [I]f we study carefully and hold up the truth, it may be that a change is going to come.”-Anthony Villarreal, Sociology Instructor

6. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “…My job is to make sure people use their money in the way they should and not go crazy. I enjoy my job.”-Linda Martin, Fiscal Department

7. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I am done working. I used to work but I finished. Now I like to … walk to the place where the land and water meet.”-Nancy Goering, Retired Business Instructor

8. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I wonder about the way students are learning and what things will be like in 20 years if things keep on as they are with people not learning to think or ask questions...if people just accept what is told them as true and don't learn to think about the possible ways they might be getting lied to, in another 20 years it will be hell.” -Stephanie Tetter, Librarian

9. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “My job is to show students how to help doctors … They have to work in a team and they really have to get good at talking and listening to other people. It is a fun job. Most students really like it and that makes me happy.” -Monika Bell, Medical Assisting Instructor

10. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “What happened in the past and the agreed upon story written down about the past are two very different things. What stories have we missed? Why? What can both the missed stories and the agreed upon stories tell us about us, our long ago families and families not yet here? The answers to these questions change us, make us pay attention and see the world around us in new ways.” -Elizabeth Mullins, History Instructor

11. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I get people to learn about the round thing we live on … The rocks tell us that some of them are very very old, older than we can even dream about.” -Fred Hochstaedter, Earth Science Instructor

12. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words I sit at a desk in an office at a college and help students and teachers meet for class. My biggest work is to help the teachers plan their classes, make sure all the facts about the places and times to meet are right and then help students find the classes they want to take. -Barbara Smallwood, Creative Arts DOM

13. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “What do I do? I do what is needed to get the job done. This is the way I think and I wish more people here thought the same way. … There is more that I do, but I have to go back to work now.” -Leslie Procive, Assistant to the VP of Acad Affairs

14. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I help people find good people to do work in the college. Then I help these good people be happy at work … I also remind them to remember to do normal stuff they have to do, like making sure people are doing good at work and sending in stuff to me.” -Kali Viker, HR Analyst

15. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I help students get money for school. I do this by showing students where the money comes from. My job is to get people with money to give that money to those who need it.” -Danielle Hodgkins, Student Financial Services Coord

16. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “To understand the living world is to also understand us. We are all part of this amazing and interesting place, and we are all better off if we get that and act like it.” -Kevin Raskoff, Biology Instructor

17. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “Some people say I just help people find books. … [B]ut my job is so much more than that. The world is full of ideas, and I help people learn how to find the most important ideas for answering questions they have…” -Catherine Webb, Librarian

18. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words Numbers and letters can be used together is many ways. In this class we will study their use to find the answers to problems made up of letters and numbers. -Bob Evans, Math Instructor

19. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I teach people how to see, how to feel and how to think. I teach people to believe in themselves and how to share their ideas with others … I teach people how to use many different things like paint and paper, to make works that express their ideas.” Notice the words NOT on the list: art, artists, appreciate, creativity, I could have done this exercise very easily if I my job is to teach people how to shoot guns! -Robynn Smith, Art Instructor

20. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I show people how to make things fit in a space--home or office--and how to use those things well, while also making sure that those things look the way they want them to look--cool.” -Sunshine Giesler, Interior Design Instructor

21. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “Some people think I just help people get classes or fill out forms. Some of my family think I fix the world’s problems or the people who cause problems in the world. I think I love my job and the people I have in my job, in the seats of the class and the people who help learn the people in the seats.”-Kelly Fletes, EOPS Counselor

22. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “Think. Fix. Read write rush. Put out fires. Answer questions. Age… Give directions.” Linda Logsdon, Physical Sciences DOM, in fine haiku form

23. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I show and tell students about matter. Matter is anything that takes up space and can be light or heavy…We look at how matter plays a part in everything from cells to business. We have fun playing with matter together!”-Sarah Gerhardt, Chemistry Instructor

24. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I help people think, have conversations, and use every idea possible to grow learning in our college and all around us…At the end of the year, students dress in college red or white and come in long lines to get a paper from me and the other guys. The paper shows they learned something. The students leave with a very big smile on their face.”- Celine Pinet, VP of Academic Affairs

25. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I talk to people about words. Some people need to read a book but do not know the words in the book, so I help them learn the words. Sometimes they know the words but are not be able to find the idea in the words, so I help them learn how to find the idea.”-Skip Seibel, ESSC Instructional Specialist

26. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I present ideas to anyone serious about a way to make life better and not worse for themselves. They can use these ideas to get a good job and make more money. It is especially sweet when they share these ideas with others to make life better.”-Larry Walker, Dean of Student Services

27. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “We help people fill jobs, find jobs and keep jobs. We help the people who work here understand the things that help them and keep them happy. Sometimes people do not do what they are supposed to and then we have to tell them that too, but not very often...If you visit us you can have something sweet to eat.”-Barbara Lee, Dean of Human Resources, and the HR staff

28. MPC Job DescriptionsUsing the 10 hundred most common English words “I explain to my family how much money they can spend. Sometimes our interests are the same and sometimes they are different. In the end, we always agree because our interests are not really that different.” Steve Ma, VP of Administrative Services