When Ms. Howard and Ms. Lyman told us that it was time that we started thinking about what we wanted to do for Career Day I was thinking about doing something like shadowing somebody at Dogtopia, a dog spa and training area, but in order to do something like that, you have to have at least a 3 week notice and since I only had two weeks I moved on and tried contacting my friends and family, asking them if they knew somebody who owned a business in the area and was willing to let a 16 year old shadow but I never did get any responses so I decided to try and find a shadow job myself and I did. It was at the Escondido Library.
Career Day was really fun and interesting, to be honest I was but a little excited because even though I have lived in Escondido - the place I was shadowing was the Escondido Library - for a year and seven months, I'm still trying to get to know the area and even though I've to the library plenty of times, it was still good to try and get to know the place. Cynthia Smith, the assistant library director and the person I was supposed to shadowed from 10am - 4:30pm, was in a meeting when I had arrived so I spent that first hour with a senior librarian name Dan Wood and he was able to answer some of my questions and the interview had gone smoothly.
I learned a lot about the library and what it takes to have that kind of job, you have to go to "library school" and have to get your Graduate's, Bachelor's, and Master's degree and that most of the staff have been working in a librarian for more than 10 years. I find it interesting how the library works and the staff were happy to help because they wanted more people, teenagers especially, to know that their job isn't to just organize and read books all day but they have to do a lot of other things like programming, cataloging, meeting up with the Trustee Board of the city of Escondido, working with the YMCA and inserting themselves into the community to be more helpful. I don't think that I would mind doing my internship here but I'm currently still looking for things I could do for internship.