Senior Projects

This week, I am working with the same company I worked with my first week which is owned by my uncle. They are located in Nashville and reside in a much smaller office. This is the third location that the company has opened and is still in its developing stages. I am working with Pam, the location manager, and Katie, a member of their office staff. Both ladies are extremely sweet and make my time here enjoyable. I spent the first day just observing what they do for the company and today I am reaching out to potential clients and advertising CSI’s services.

Today I finished working on the phone extension logs. There were a total of 132 phones in all of the locations. Almost half of them were not in use or the extensions were wrong. My next and final project will be the device log. The log will show us what devices we have, even if not in use, and it will help with the finances of the company.

This first week has been really fun. I have been helping out at a automotive shop that works on every type of vehicle including diesel. I follow some of the older mechanics there and so far I think I have learned a lot. Some of the things that I have done is change the oil on multiple cars and trucks, change tires, balanced and align tires, cleaned out a transmission, and helped replace one too. All of the workers are very friendly and they all are very skilled in this trade. So far this is the most fun and also the dirtiest.

During my last day at the ranch, an organization called The Lou came out to serve. It is a community of people organized by a church called The Crossing that goes all throughout St. Louis to serve and volunteer in the area. The day before, I helped Lori set up for their arrival and organize the projects and on the day they arrived, I helped greet and organize people where they can help. It was really neat to meet so many diverse people all with the common goal to serve their community. There was a photographer and videographer who took interviews and documented the events of the day. I am very happy that I was able to be apart of the service and lending Lori a hand in organization. It was neat to see how a group of complete strangers would become friends after just a few hours of working on one project together.

The beginning of the week Rhiannon and I met with more potential clients. We then started working on painting and updating a clients kitchen. We taped the kitchen in order to get it ready to paint. I started on the ceiling and I learned how tedious painting actually is. It took three days to finish, but it looked great at the end.

This week I was back at Strong Tower Ranch. At the beginning of the week, I helped map out and create a community garden and also organized for the upcoming summer camps. I enjoyed both of these activities because it was satisfying and peaceful. I learned from the people I worked with and enjoyed the simple time that I had to converse and get to know them. Most of the time, I am working with just one other or two other people.

Of course, I loved being back with the horses and enjoyed taking care of them. I got to watch a farrier come to replace the shoes on one of the horses and found it parallel to a pedicure. I thoroughly enjoy being at the ranch and hope to visit this summer.

Today is my last day at Continuum. This week has been a little bit strange because the administration has sort of run out of things for me to help out with. I’ve gotten through a lot of stuff in my time here, but Wednesday through Friday I’ve been sort of just sitting around. I feel sort of bad because I’m supposed to be doing this instead of school, so I feel like I should be actively doing work, but the therapists are busy with the kids, and the administration is either working with the kids or trying to fix the online work schedule or payroll- neither of which I can help out with. I wish there were something specific for me to do because sitting around is getting pretty boring. I could go watch the kids in session, but I’ve figured out how this place works enough that things aren’t that eventful and I end up getting bored anyway. I really really want to help, but I just don’t think theres a way that I can help at this point.

Next week I start working at Salon Prive. I’m still not sure if there will be a lot for me to help out with, but I’ll only be there for five days since I work there from wed-sat. The hours are a little weird so that’s going to be stressful for me to adapt to. I’m working in the evenings for the most part. On Wednesday and Thursday, I work from 1-8, and on Friday I work from 11-6, and on Saturday I work from 10-5. It will be sort of strange getting home so late. I’m worried it will cause me to feel like I don’t have a lot of time in the day because I’ll end up sleeping in late. It’s only a short time though, so it will be fine.

Yesterday was eventful. I was tasked with going around to Edwardsville, IL to make sure all the phone extensions worked. I then had to type in an excel sheet if the phone was active, there was a voicemail, and if the location of the phone was right. I then had to log all the devices to create an inventory. This is important because we need to see if we are wasting money because we can’t find a computer that someone can use instead of buying a new one. I had to do the same for iPads which were mainly used for check-in during Covid.

On Tuesday, I published the PayCom learning presentation for the employees on Bloodborne Pathogens. It took me about three hours to do because I never used PayCom and I had to make sure everything was up to OSHA standards. It wasn’t too bad one I figured out how to create it. I was listening to Morgan Wallen so that helped.

Hey, sorry ya’ll for not posting last week. I was very busy and then all of a sudden I got strep. I worked for about ten minutes last Friday and then took three naps and felt like dying. Other than that though last week was fine. I went and logged some more computers before Thursday. They after the track meet I got sick.