Previous Jobs & Current Employment

In my junior year of high school, I started working at an after-school program for elementary students. I fell in love with the job and my favorite part of the day was picking up the kindergarteners from their class and talking to them about their day. At that job, I came up with activities for them to do. My supervisor would give me themes and guidelines and I would get inspiration from sites like Pinterest, or I would ask my grandma for some help! The students loved most of my activities and sometimes I made huge messes with them. There was one time when the head supervisor was at my site and she watched as the kids made a large mess on the stage where we were doing sensory bins. I was so embarrassed that it was my idea and it made such a huge mess that I convinced myself I was going to be in trouble.

While I was cleaning up the stage with my head supervisor, she turned to me and told me that this was one of the best activities that she's ever witnessed and she had never seen the students so engaged.

I was so excited and when I asked her about what to do about the mess, she told me she would make a couple of phone calls and it would all be okay.

I also worked at the Sheraton Grand Wildhorse Pass as a recreation attendant. I was able to assist children in making crafts and also play games with them around the hotel. Another part of the job was being able to come up with activities on the fly. There was one specific time where we needed to make an obstacle course for some kids and I helped my coworkers find materials that we could use to make things more engaging for the children. A specific memory from that job that still sticks with me today was when I saw a child who was struggling with the obstacle course and I ran inside to grab him a different activity that he would understand more. When his mom saw what I had done, she got super emotional. She told me that her son had recently been diagnosed with autism and I could tell that she felt embarrassed that her son could not do the obstacle course like the other children. I told her it was okay and that he clearly liked the other activity I had gotten out for him more than the obstacle course.

The mother thanked me and told me that she hoped I was going into education because I handled the situation with her son so well.

Currently I am working as a part time babysitter on both Care.com and the Busy Bees babysitting app. Because I am a full time student, it can be challenging to find ways to make money and these applications make it easier to utilize my free time and spend time doing something I love. Feel free to look at my accounts or set them up at the bottom of my contact page.