Name of my parent who took me to work: Greg Burdett
His relationship with me: He’s my dad
The Interview:
- Q: What is your job title? A: He’s the owner of Select Sprinklers
- Q: What is your job description? A: He oversees all aspects of the company, helps guide subordinates.
- Q: What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job? A: He oversees all aspects of the company, helps guide subordinates, and guides company policy.
- What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas: A) training: Trial and error, he started to company, and taught himself how to run it. B) education: A Bachelor of General Studies from Simon Fraser University C) experience: He worked for Fortis BC, and he worked for the City of Vancouver. D) skills and attributes (personal qualities): He works really hard; he has a dad that showed him how to do a lot of stuff.
- What are some of the things you like about the job? He likes that he has the freedom to choose whether he goes into work or not, he gets to choose who he hires/who works for him, he gets to choose what he does every day.
- What are some of the things you dislike about this job? Dealing with customers that aren’t logical, unnecessary government and safety regulations.
- How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? He probably won’t have to work as much or be as involved.
- (Other question) What’s 1 thing that you would change about your job? He wished that he could never lose any of his good employees
Student Reflections:
- Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific): 1. I would get to work with my dad, my aunt, and all of the other good people that work for my dad. 2. I would get to work outdoors, I always liked being outside, and lots of the time if you’re doing field work you dig holes, plow snow, and install things outdoors. 3. I would have the chance to take over the business when I’m older. If I work for my dad for a long time, eventually I will get to take over the family business, and being the boss at your work is something that I’m interested in. Plus, I would get to keep this business alive, and pass it down to someone else later.
- Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific): 1. I would have to deal with a few customers that aren’t smart, and that would annoy me a lot. I’m not the best with dealing with people who are difficult, so this aspect would really tilt me. 2. Sometimes, I would have to work outside in bad weather. I like rain sometimes but having to be in rain or snow for an extended period of time would suck, because I would get really cold and damp. 3. You have to do a lot of driving around. If I worked with my dad, sometimes I would have to drive to places that re far away, in traffic, during rush hour. That’s really boring.
- Is this job for you? Why or why not? I think that this job is really for me. I would get to work with my dad, be outside, and continue Select Sprinklers. My most wanted job would to be a doctor, but I would also be really happy with this job. It has good pay and is cool.
- 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 feel like TOKTW didn’t change my ideas about what I’m going to do when I’m older. I still want to be a doctor and I still want to go to university. 1 thing that it might change is what university I go to when I’m older. I went onto the SFU campus on TOKTWD, and it was really cool. Everything seemed fairly clean, and cool. So SFU looked pretty good when I went there. But I still want to be a doctor when I grow up, I still would like to work for my dad, and I still want to travel the world when I’m young.
Some pictures of the places I went to for TOKTWD
Video 1: IMG_1692
Video 2: IMG_1697