FROM FIONA: Your reply cordially requested

[pegkerr]

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)

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Hi, Fiona,

I don't go to a job every day. I don't have a boss, and I don't have a paycheck. I stay home, but I still have many things to do every day. You probably know about cleaning the house and doing the laundry and that kind of stuff. I cook a lot, and that means I go to the grocery store and try and think of new good things for meals. I get tired of eating the same kinds of foods all the time, and so does my family. I try and make new foods pretty often. Sometimes I make new things that we really like, and that's a lot of fun. There's a lot to learn about cooking, so I like trying recipes that have new techniques. I enjoy being a better cook than I used to be.

Even though I don't have to go to a job every day, I have places where I do volunteer work. I am on the Board of Directors for the theater that puts on the May Day parade and celebration. This means that I help the people who work at the theater. We go to meetings and talk about the theater's budget, and how to make the money that we earn stretch far enough to pay all our bills. The theater never has so much money that we can buy all the things we would like, so we try hard to find new ways keep the theater's expenses down. We also talk about how much fun it is to have a puppet theater in South Minneapolis, and how we can get more kids and families to come to our shows.

Another way I volunteer my time is to some local history groups and projects. I have been studying the history of Minneapolis for a while now, just because it is so interesting to learn what it was like around here before I was born. There's a piece of park land over by Minnehaha Falls where they built a tunnel over the highway, and the park board wants to make this construction site into a nice park. I was invited to explain what that park land used to be like in the 1920s and 1930s. I have a lot of old pictures and have read a lot about it, so they asked me to tell them about it. Can you believe it was a zoo! There were elephants and lions and hippos and seals and monkeys and all kinds of rides and fun stuff. I don't think they will bring back the zoo animals, though. I think they will just make it a flower garden.

I am also helping the state historical society to collect pictures that tell about the war that happened in Minnesota. We are making a book with all the pictures we can find in it. We will be designing the pages and deciding what order to put our pictures in to tell the story. Did you know that the Indians and the European settlers had a terrible war and that a lot of people died fighting over who got to live in Minnesota? The Indians mostly lost, and the European settlers mostly won, but it was a very terrible sad time. Have you been to Fort Snelling? Just below the bluff there was a prison for some of the Indians who lost the war. I'm glad the prison isn't there any more.

These kinds of work, the things I do to keep up the home and the things I do to volunteer, don't require any special education. I do get to learn new things all the time, and I really like that. I also like having time to read and study. I like being able to do volunteer jobs because the people I work with are always so glad to have help. Also, because I don't go to a regular job every day, when I volunteer I get to go out and work along with other people. I get lonely and bored when I stay home alone all the time.

your friend,

K.