Name of your host: Vielda

Relationship to you: Mother

The Interview:  
1. What is your job title?      

Deputy Sheriff

 
2.What is your job description? 

They protect members of the court and the participants.

3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?  

Transport prisoners to court and institution.

4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas: 

a) training? 

You need to pass firearm training.

b) education? 

They have legal study classes. You also need a grade 12 diploma.

c) experience? 

 
Life experience is recommended.

d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)? 

 
Maturity, integrity, and commitment.

5. What are some of the things you like about the job? 

I like to drive around to different places and to go pick up prisoners.

6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job? 

I do not like waking up too early in the morning.

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? 

I do not expect it to change.

Student Reflections:
Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific): 

a) One reason I would like this job is because I would get health benefits. I find it helpful that I would get health benefits just by being a deputy sheriff.

b) The second reason I would like this job is because I would get to work in a courtroom. During “bring your kid to work day,” I got to see what it was like at court, and I found it interesting. So, I think it would be interesting to be a sheriff and to be able to sit in a courtroom.

c) Another reason I would like this job is because I would get to drive to multiple places. I would like to do that because I find it fun to go places.

  
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific): 
  

a) One reason I would not like this job is because sometimes you do not get summer break off.

b) The second reason I would not like this job is because It is a dangerous job.

c) The last reason I would not like this job is because sometimes you have to be out all day, instead of getting to go home early.

3. Is this job for you? Why or why not? 

This job is not for me, because I would not like to be around criminals. I also would not like to wake up early in the morning, because I like to get the right amount of sleep.

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 think that my experience during “take your kid to work day” gave me an idea of what to do when I am older. It showed me what It was like to do a serious job. The job that I want to get, and the job that my mom has is a little similar because they both involve working with people. But other than that, my mom’s job does not relate to the job I want when I am older. It was nice trying out new things and seeing what it was like at my mom’s work. I also found it really interesting, and I wish I could have seen more, and learned more about what she does.