Interview Preperation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?

I plan to interview my Mentor who is Rosalio Jimenez.

I choose Rosalio because he owns his own business which is my senior project topic. His business is in landscaping, he designs and accomplishes what he and his clients have planned. He seems like he has a lot of experience and can teach me a lot about the job. Even when I mentored with him i would ask simple questions but he would give me in depth answers, he is the perfect interviewee. 


2.  You have to ask 5 questions.  What additional questions do you plan to ask? 

Set Five Questions: 

1. Do you enjoy working in landscaping and why?
2. What made you pursue your job in landscaping?
3. What is one thing that annoys you the most about your job?
4. If I want to pursue this job what do you recommend  for me to do? 
5. How well do you work with your clients and what did you do to aquire them?

Additional Questions: 

1. What did you do to get your contractors license?
2. About how much is the total cost of accessories and gas for your machines?
3. What kind of person do you have to be to be successful in this field?
4. How do you handle with the heat and working outside?
5. What do you do when you need to get a job done but mother nature gets in the way?
6. How many hours do you usually work a day? 

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Semester 1 ESLR Goals

1.  List your topic here:  Landscaping

2.  What do you plan to do this year to show growth in each of the ESLRs?  Be specific and use an example.  Examples can come from senior project, model assembly, core, and/or participation in senior class ASB or other organizations on campus (clubs etc).

I-POLY CITIZEN: 

• I will become an effective I-poly citizen and show growth by respecting others, helping the lower class and doing everything in my power to help the class of 2014. I am sure by helping teachers and volunteering I can become an effective I-poly citizen. When attending class and a peer needs help I will offer my help and help to the best of my knowledge. Also I will be responsible and try to join the most amount of committees and engage in senior activities.

EFFECTIVE LEARNER:

• I will become an effective learner and show growth by participating in class, paying attention to the teacher and studying every single day. Everyone has a different way of being an effective learner, people retain knowledge and what is being taught at different rates. Some can just listen and already become an effective learner. As for me, I will have to take notes and study several days before a test to retain what I have learned and be an effective learner. In class I will stay away from friends and always take notes ti be the most effective learner I can be.

EFFECTIVE USER OF TECHNOLOGY:

• I will become an effective user of technology and show growth by practicing on by typing skills, using programs such as Word and PowerPoint to make my life easier. Being a teenager and going to a technological rich school I already am an effective user but there is always more to improve on. Technology was invented to make life easier and I tend to take advantage of that. I will try my best to use technology in everything I can like homework, senior project and model assembly because by doing so I will use technology to help me and therefore be an effective user of technology. 

Effective Communicator 

• I will become an effective communicator and show growth by getting involved with my peers, getting along with others and ask questions when needed. An example of being a good communicator is getting an idea across to people without them asking any questions. Pitching ideas to peers and not arguing about whats being said. But to be an effective communicator you need an effective learner. If the person does not want to learn or take in what you are saying then you are not communicating. So to be an effective communicator you need everyone to hear you even the hard-headed stubborn people.

Senior Mentor Ship Component

Literal
1.Here is a link of my mentor ship hours- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqvHQ7PgSB6zdFN5QmlrWXlRLVNfWUtjMW9jdDBRZ1E#gid=0 
2.I Did my mentor ship with Rosalio Jimenez, who can be contacted at (909)538-6580.   
3.The only questions that were raised were-

1. Why pick this career, do I want to pursue this for the rest of my life?
2. Am I sure if I want to do this for my senior project?

Interpretative
4. I learned a lot from this experience, I learned how to work, how to please and talk to customers. I also Learned how it is to run a small business. Working with people is hard because not all of them will agre with what you have, many have different styles of doing things and as worker or"employee" the costumer is always right and gets what he or she wants. Also I learned how to work with tools and machines like commercial Mowers and tools to fix sprinklers.
  Applied
5. What I did didn't necessarily help me choose a topic but it did help me get closer to what I want to do. Landscaping is a very rigorous and stressful job it requires strength and diligence. I may Choose this as my topic cause I do enjoy doing this and working with people but im not sure if I want to work so hard the rest of my life. What I am sure of is that I would love to own many business of landscaping and make one huge landscaping corporation so that I don't have to work. I would just hire people to do the jobs.