I love my job!

I drive a lot for my work. I don't mind and I feel my work is important and I do it fairly well. I work for the California Army National Guard recruiters helping them work with high schools. The area I cover is HUGE. I cover 3/4ths of California which is bigger than all of New England and some countries. I support 7 teams and over 50 recruiters. There are 2 other people in the state that do the same job as I do, those two cover the 1/4 of the state that I don't. I really enjoy my job. Because I support so many teams and so many recruiters no one really knows what I'm doing or where I'm at. They just figure I am supporting someone else. This week I will support 5 different teams. Today I only drove one hour each way and worked in the school for 6 hours. Tomorrow I will drive 5 hours round trip and work in the school for an hour. Wednesday I will go to 2 different schools, the first one is 3 hours away.

After working there for one hour I will drive another one and a half hours and work in a second school for an hour. Thursday I will drive back to the same area, 3 hours away, and work there for an hour then drive 5 hours to stay the night in San Jose and visit with my sister. The next morning I will go to 3 school districts before working at a school in that area for an hour then drive home, hopefully before the rush hour traffic that will turn a 1.5 hour drive into a 4 hour drive. A total of 900 miles this week. I don't mind the driving. I see a lot of cool parts of California.

The recruiters like going to the larger schools so I go to the smaller schools, often by myself. I don't mind that because I feel I do a much better job than the recruiters because I do this every day and the recruiter does it two or three times a year. I like knowing the smaller schools get a better program than the larger ones. What do I do, you might ask. I do a Career Exploration Program utilizing an aptitude test, interest inventory, and work values. After having the students analyze themselves I show them how to find jobs that fit their individual needs.

I work with them until they know how to use the website then explain they can use that website anytime they can get on line for the next year and a half. I give them a tool they can use by themselves to try to figure out what they want to do rather than have their parents tell them what they want to do. They can look up how much the job pays, by zip code and where they can get training and even how many jobs are open. I like my job and feel it benefits society, it makes me feel useful and fulfilled. I travel in many places and see many things. I have the best job in the world!!