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FROM FIONA: Your reply cordially requested
Tomorrow, as part of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work, Fiona is going to be visiting Rob's store and spending the day with him, learning about his job. The last two years, she has spent this day with me at my office, learning about my job.
I'd like her to give her the chance to learn about a lot of jobs. Specifically, your job.
Won't you tell Fiona about your job, so she can get an idea of the vast possibilities in the World of Work out there?
If you can, please leave Fiona a comment by tomorrow night, telling her about your career. Something like:
What your job title is, and what that means
A description of a typical day
What you need in the way of training/education/experience to do this job
Why you like it and (if you dare)
Why you dislike it
What sorts of things can go wrong at your job?
What kind of person thrives in your job
Anything else you can think of that would give her an idea of what it might be like to choose your career?
I'd like her to get as many replies as possible. Thanks ever so much!
Cheers,
Peg (and Fiona)
I'd like her to give her the chance to learn about a lot of jobs. Specifically, your job.
Won't you tell Fiona about your job, so she can get an idea of the vast possibilities in the World of Work out there?
If you can, please leave Fiona a comment by tomorrow night, telling her about your career. Something like:
What your job title is, and what that means
A description of a typical day
What you need in the way of training/education/experience to do this job
Why you like it and (if you dare)
Why you dislike it
What sorts of things can go wrong at your job?
What kind of person thrives in your job
Anything else you can think of that would give her an idea of what it might be like to choose your career?
I'd like her to get as many replies as possible. Thanks ever so much!
Cheers,
Peg (and Fiona)
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What your job title is, and what that means
~Gymnastics teacher. I teach beginning gymnastics at a YMCA around here.
A description of a typical day
~I only teach on Saturday mornings. My first class (Basic 1) starts at 8:30, so both the other gymnastics teacher (who teaches the more advanced classes at the same time as I teach mine, but on different equipment) and I can set up the gym. We put the mats out, get the beam up, set up the vault, and put up the bars. At 8:30 we call the kids out on the mats, and she usually stretches both her class and my class out while I take attendance. Then we split up. We rotate through working on the floor, vault, beam, and my class does some bars, but since they're not as advanced, they don't need to work on them as much quite yet. (a lot of my kids don't quite have the strength in their arms yet to do things that are really advanced. . . that will come for them though :). The first class is scheduled to go until 9:15, but we usually end about 2 minutes early so I can talk to parents. Then we basically have the same schedule for our 9:15-10 class (for which I also teach Basic 1). After my second class, the kids usually like to help put the stuff away (the mats, beam, etc), and stay and practice a bit. And then I clock out and go about my day!
What you need in the way of training/education/experience to do this job
~ I took dance and gymnastics for years when I was younger at a dance studio, and the last few years when I was in 8th grade and hs, I started helping out w/ the classes of the younger kids. Then I got this job at the YMCA!
Why you like it and (if you dare)
~I LOVE it! It is fantastic. VERY fun, and it's all because of my kids. I love my kids. It is so fun when they come in and run over to me with a big smile and give me a big hug, and when they get so excited telling me what's been going on in their lives.
Why you dislike it
~I'm not really a morning person, and I have to get up around 7:15am on a Saturday morning to be there on time, lol. And sometimes it's not so fun when the kids are all having a "hyper" day and none of them want to listen very well.
What sorts of things can go wrong at your job?
~Most of what goes wrong isn't too bad. One of my funniest kids, she was running up the vault run the other day and she must've tripped and she fell forward. It was on the mats, so she was okay - just a bit shaken up. So she came over and I picked her up and she sat on my hip for a while and then hopped down to rejoin her class. What goes wrong is kids sometimes get hurt. Not often. . . most is when they're playing around on the bars or beam when I've told them not to, and I'm helping another kid, and they fall.
What kind of person thrives in your job
~Someone who likes kids =) And who is flexible. Being a gymnastics teacher. . . . you don't have quite as much structure as you do in a school classroom. The students don't sit at desks, so it's more informal, and sometimes it's easier for students to get excited, so the teacher has to be easygoing, but be able to handle working with excited students! :)
Anything else you can think of that would give her an idea of what it might be like to choose your career?
~Well, not too many people only teach gymnastics for a living. If they do, they teach a lot of classes every day, and they tend to teach more serious students. Most of my students are just there to have fun and check it out since it's the first time in gymnastics for most of them. A lot of my co-teachers either are students, or for instance, one other teacher I have worked with was a police officer and did this on Saturday mornings for fun and to keep up with her gymnastics training =)
I hope you have fun, Fiona! :-D