Plan for Week 2 (April 2-6)

So, I’ve decided that I will post three times a week, maybe not every week, but I will post a plan during the weekend for the upcoming week, then post midweek, and at the end of the week, so they’re not as long all at once. I always have Mondays off, since the Museum is closed, originally I was going to work at May’s Place a vintage store owned by Katie May in St. Louis, but since I am already meeting the 30 hours a week requirement and sometimes going over it, I decided to drop this, since it’s not really helping me with my major or future career, I just thought it would be cool. So, those are my executive, no cap decisions.

This is what my coming week will look like: Tuesday, I will have museum babies, a daytime program, and then a facilitated dialogue. These are like discussions with the staff about internal runnings within the museum, I may actually get to lead one of these in the future! Wednesday, I will be at the Soldier’s Memorial Museum where I have orientation and then I will work as the desk greeter. Thursday, I will be at the Key Bistro Restaurant as a greeter, then either in the clubhouse or Soldier’s Memorial, and then I will be working the night even. Finally, Friday I have storytelling at the kids’ clubhouse, then I will spend the rest of the day either in the Key Bistro, SMM, or the Clubhouse, and just helping out wherever it’s needed.

I am really looking forward to the rest of the project and I could see myself doing this as a career. I like it because you’re on your feet and get to move around, which is refreshing compared to being at school, where you have to spend so much time sitting. I also feel like at school you are always being given work to do like even if it’s just busy work, where as at work if I finish everything I just get some downtime and get to take a break before the next new thing in my shift. Also, I went down a rabbit hole ahead of starting senior projects and looked way back on the senior projects blog to see what other kids did. And something that both Natasha Douglass and Elliot Voekel said, and a lot of others too, was that they were really surprised with how adults were so impressed with teenagers or interns just doing basic professional things like being on time, shaking your hand, introducing yourself, not being on your phone, etc. and I have noticed this also. At the career fair, I spoke to two women at a booth who help run an elementary school called Atlas School. I gave them my contact information and I would consider working with them, and I had mentioned that I was 17 in case that meant I wouldn’t be able to work there. And the woman said I still could, and that it was refreshing to see a highschooler who was so mature. I guess I can see why people would be impressed with this because there are some just downright cruel people in the world, so when someone is polite, understanding, and just willing to help it can be a breath of fresh air. In other news, I have also started a Substack blog to post my writing on because there is a writer’s position available at the museum that I may apply to this summer and figured that would be more professional than my Wattpad account, LOL. If you care to follow them my Wattpad is @bebobwaffles_123 and my substack is @jollyranger867, I post pretty often and if you want to discuss any of my articles or stories I would love to. If I get enough subscribers I can also be paid from Substack, which is super cool. I also plan on setting up an Amazon Kindle account where you could buy my stuff and I would get a partial commission, I just haven’t set it up yet. And last update, I am planning on trying to set my brother up with Elena from the museum because she is single, super cute, smart, funny, and sweet, and I think they’d make a good couple.