1. What is your job title?: Crochet.

2. What is your job description?: Crochet is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials.

3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?: Since it is a self-business, she does all design, creating, shipping, and deliveries.

4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) Training?: There isn’t specific training required, but the more time you practice the better skills you will obtain.
b) Education?: There isn’t specific training required, but the more time you practice the better skills you will obtain.
c) Experience?: She first tried crocheting when she was around the age of 7, but it became her real hobby when she was 15 years old. She started crochet as a business 20 years ago.
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?: Her personal skill in crochet is her creativity and time management. Time management is important in every job because it is a responsibility how to finish a task within a given amount of time. She is also good at creating new designs to attract buyers.

5. What are some of the things you like about the job?: She likes doing what she loves the most, and she likes when the buyers are satisfied with the product, they purchased.

6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?: She doesn’t like when buyers aren’t satisfied and is stressed when she runs out of good ideas.
7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?: She anticipates that she will be able to open her own shop and start a bigger business within the next 5 years.

Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) I would like to be free and create anything I feel or want to.
b) Crochet takes a lot of deep concentration and focuses which I would like to learn and practice.
c) I like how people won’t judge what I create and only buyers who is interested and enjoys crochet will buy.
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) This job is rarely physically active. The only body part that mostly moves is the hands and fingers.
b) I don’t like being pressured under a limited amount of time
c) I don’t like jobs that require long periods of time doing one thing, because I would often get bored quickly.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?
No. The main reason why I wouldn’t like this job as my own is that I would not like any job that doesn’t include a lot of physical movement.
4. Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?). I do want to become an army soldier, and I want to go to university in Montréal. I would also like to become a police officer for my future career.