Interview Write-Up, 5th Grade Style
A couple months ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my 5th grade niece. She had an assignment to interview someone in her family about their job and because she LOVES animals, she chose me. The interview was awesome, she had some great questions! Questions like "What do you think schools should teach children to better prepare them for a job?" and "What do you think is harder, school or work?" The answer to "Who is your best client?" stumped me the most. We have so many amazing clients!! She chose Gidget and Bentley because they have been clients for so long and she knows them from Camp Carrie. Weirdly coincidental, Bentley, was diagnosed with cancer a few days before writing this blog and has passed over rainbow bridge, but he lives on in so many of our hearts.
I always love reading her stories because she has an amazing imagination and I am in awe of her ability to create a picture with words at her age. This paper is different, it's more factual, but she still shows great writing skills for a 10 year old. I'm sharing it because it is about See Spot Sit and (who knows!) it may be the first of many published stories written by her.
"My aunt, Carrie Dunnagan, is to me one of the most successful dog walkers & pet sitters there is, over her years of owning a business. She has even popped up in a local magazine! Through good days and through bad she has not given up and this is the story of Carrie Dunnagan and her business, See Spot Sit. She started her first job when her dogs were at a boarding kennel. Her mother was paying the bill for the dogs to stay at the kennel and the kennel showed her the ropes and she worked there for three years to pay off the bill for her dogs staying there. (It really only took a summer to pay the bill, but I continued to work there for a few years after). She has the job she has now after starting a business on the recommendation of a coach and that's where it all started. She does indeed like her work but, not only like but love too. She says, "I love my job because I get to be with animals and enjoy the responsibility." She also says she learned a lot of what she knows from doing it but also learned stuff in school that benefits her now. Her best client's name is Mary. She has been working with See Spot Sit for seven years and has a great relationship with Carrie. Carrie walks her dogs every weekday and loves to keep the pups, Gidget and Bentley at her house. The worst day of work is when Carrie gets news of a client's pet dying. The best day is when everything goes smoothly, the dog walkers are on schedule and all the pets are healthy.
If Carrie could change one thing at her work it would be dog walkers taking dogs for longer walks. (I'm not sure where longer walks came from?). Carrie is her own boss with employees but thinks of herself as part of a team. As mentioned before, she indeed is her own boss. She hopes her business will last in the next ten years but nothing is for sure. She says schools should teach children responsibility and dependability; they should turn in homework and not call in if they aren't really sick. Carrie did not think she would end up where she is now (when she was) in school, in fact Carrie wanted to be a teacher. Carrie says "school and work can be equally as hard." She personally thinks they are the same and loves them both dearly.
That is the story."
