The Driving Question

Last Wednesday it was take your kid to work day for  all the grade 9’s in the province! We got to go to work with our parents, mentors, or family. It’s pretty cool and we got to have a day off at school. My mum works at Capilano University as the events manager. The driving question for this project was “How does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices.”

My Day At Work

So as I already said I went to Capilano university with my mum and I had a super fun time! I started off by dropping my brother off at school and then we started our drive to Capilano University which is only about 10-15 minutes so that was good. when we got there we met up with my mums work colleague and her daughter who is on my soccer team. Her name is Maelle. I started off by getting a couple interviews and pictures then we went to the theatre and saw the set that they were building, it was super cool!!

I mostly just took interviews and did a couple tours around Capilano University and it was so cool to just be in a University and see what it’s like. As we were taking our tour of the library we came across The student affair cats and they were super cute and we got too play with them for a while and it was so much fun!

TYKTWD Video

For this project as we’re in PLP we have to do a lot more than the mainstream kids. We had to make a video about our day. The video had to be about the driving question and we had to record our day and what we did. We also had to take interviews of your parents or people you know there. I got an interview with 4 people, 1 with my mum, one with Maelle’s mum Jennifer, 1 with the theatre manager, and one with a woman who works in my mums office. I had a lot of fun working with my mum and making my video. It was fun to interview all those people and find out things about their jobs and how they got them and what they do.

Here is my video:

My Email

We had to write an email to the person we went to work with saying thank you and saying that we had a lot of fun which I sure did! I wrote my email to my mum and explained that I had a lot of fun working with her and I just overall said thank you to her because it was very nice for her to take me to her work because I know she is very busy all the time so I am glad that she took the time to make sure I had a fun day!

This is my email that I wrote:

Conclusion

In conclusion I would say that I had a super fun day with my mum and Maelle. It was so much fun experiencing what is like to work at a university and just go to work in general. I hope that one day I can go back there to CapU and experience that day again because it was super fun and I found that job to be fun and rewarding because it is cool to see the events turn out and see all your hard work put into the event. My answer to the driving question is that now I have been to a work place and had a day working in events I have really realized that events could be a good choice for my future. Im not sure what I want to do in the future but now that I have gone with my mum I think it has narrowed down my choices in jobs for the future so I can figure out the perfect job for me.

Thank you so much for reading about my day at work! I hope you enjoyed! ❤️