Toward the end of the school year I offer my students one extra credit project.
The directions are to find an adult in a vocation they would want to have when they are older. Then they conduct an interview and write a paper about what they learned about that career. Well... sometimes the stuff my kids write is just too funny to not share with others. So here is an essay from one of the kids. I didn't change anything. Believe me; I couldn't make this up.
Essay Interview
Mr. Burrill
Rm.15
Hi my name is Jordan Thompson, my dream job is to be a
detective or maybe a pharmacist. I’ve always wanted to be a detective because
ever since I was young I always watched Colombo and matloc, and I would always
try to solve the cases.Ive decided to interview my uncle Dwayne and he is a
call receptionist at Verizon wireless.
I
interviewed my uncle Dwayne, he is 52 and he has been a call receptionist at
Verizon wireless. He has been in the customer service field for about 8 years
now and has moved himself up. He pretty
much answers phone calls to customers that aren’t happy with their bill. Sometimes
there just having a hard time with their phones. He has customers as mad as
where they can be cursing him out. When people are complaining about their bill
being high he tries to maybe see if there up for a new phone or he can do a 15%
deal off.
A
typical day for my uncle is first to clock in and get his coffee. When he sits down he usually checks his email
and calls his daughter and wife and tell them he got to work safely. Once hi is all settled he checks if there is
any emails and calls. He said he gets about 45 calls on a good day, he gets
yelled at at least 10 times a day. He has two 15 minutes breaks and 1 lunch
break. During his 15 minute break he handles some of his bills and most of the
time he has mandatory meetings. During his lunch break he usually brings his
lunch to his daughter at work or goes out to eat with his girlfriend Sheela.
After he goes back to work and finishes up some paper work he starts on his
phone calls after he finishes up some paper work. Then he clocks out and goes
home and chills at home.
The perks
and advantages of this job is that he can flex his hours, which is where you
can leave work early and then make up the hours later. That is really cool
because most adults can’t do that so I think that is really cool. His money was really good when he used to be
a lawyer for a very long time and he had to go back to help his daughter
because she had a two twin kids. He
works about 10 hours on a good day 11 on a bad day. He and my family go on a
cruise trip every year out the country.
He gets along with all of his coworkers, he thinks it’s cool because he
usually a one man job except for his clients.
The rewards at his job is every Friday his job has a potluck I’m going
to one pretty soon. He always has fun either if it’s happy hour after his job,
or its clubbing with our family.
This job
requires 6 weeks of training you really have to know what you’re doing to have
job so it’s a lot harder. You have to
have an AA you don’t need a master’s degree or a bachelors because it’s not
mandatory for most people if they have been in this field before. He ended up in this job because he wanted to
get some extra money on the side and this was the easy because he went to law
school so he got the job easily. He
originally wanted to be in the NBA but that didn’t work out but he played
college ball.
He uses
math every day because he has to count his customers, so that’s a pretty big
part of his day. Math is very important
because he’s adding, subtracting and multiplying he said he feels like an
accountant. His advice to middle
schoolers now is to don’t take middle school for granted what you learn will be
essential to what you learn in high school and life.
An
interesting story I learned from the interview is it was his birthday and they
put him down for working after he asked for the day off. Once he found out he
had to go to work he yelled at his boss and he said Dwayne I gave you the day
off this is for next month. My Uncle Dwayne called him and apologized later
that day for all that cursing and yelling at him for. The most interesting
thing I have learned from this interview is to always put in your full work
because one day you will be so proud and it will pay off. Like in math class by
grade dropped and it’s been so hard getting up and I want to keep doing my work
so I can my make my mom proud. His worst day is when a customer called him and
was cursing him out, and his temper was already high from earlier this morning
so he snapped on the guy. The customer
gave him a zero on his survey and he had to have a meeting with this group
manager and his boss, luckily all he had was a write up. His scariest moment
was when he thought he was going to get fired because he missed 2 days of work
and didn’t call in saying he was ill. His most successful story was helping a
customer that had a problem that no one could really solve and the other one
was giving a customer a deal to help them pay there bill when they didn’t have
the funds to.
The
conclusions about this career is you have to have lot of patients and sometimes
you will get very frustrated and and this job isn’t for everyone. Also not many people are able to do this job
my uncles boss said it is a gift. I wouldn’t want to this job the salary isn’t
a problem I feel like I can see myself being a detective like I said in the
beginning of this essay, or I maybe want to be a scout for high school sports I
would love to do that. Thank you very much for taking up your time in your day
to read this essay.
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