Working at SACC

People define work as different things, but I define work as doing something that you will enjoy every single day. If you get a job where you enjoy every minute of it you will never work a day in your life. When I was back at home in Brighton Tennessee I use to work at a place called Drummonds SACC. This was basically an afterschool camp for kids, and my job title was a caregiver. My task every day was to make sure the students got help with homework, and to help with whatever else they needed. Although we didn’t really have a lot of time during the school year to have fun, we did have fun during the summer time.

When I worked there during the summer of 2013, it was a blast; the kids had fun and so did the workers. I can remember a time when we all played a game of basketball. One day I and the other four caregivers came into work thinking that we were going to just do our normal thing which was to sit down at the gray, and ragged old tables and play board games and maybe play a game that involves physical activity. Mr. V and I were friends before he started to work at the after school camp and we were both very much active. Mr. V was about five foot nine and looked like he had not eaten in years because of how skinny he was, but he was a very active person and loved playing sports with the kids as much as I did. So we came up with a plan to go ask our boss if we could play a friendly game of basketball. When we asked her, she hesitated at first and then decided to let us play but she laid down some rules first. That way no one would get hurt or in trouble. There were 3 rules to be followed before we could play the game and they were as follows: 1.) There is to be no fighting during the game. 2.) No one is to argue back with ...

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...ed what I said around the kids, and made sure I carried myself in a presentable manner. That’s what I feel like I should bring to my future job. I may not be the top person in my class but I am willing to give 110 percent, be determined, and also carry myself in a way that is professional.

While working at SACC during the summer help me to realize that this is not the profession for me. Although I really do like working with the kids; the fact is that I get too attached to them and it just does not pay enough. I feel as though the lessons that I have learned and have been taught while I have worked at SACC will help me later in life. Whether it is with being a team player or if it is just simply having enough patience to just wait for my bonus to come. SACC will always be my first job where I can actually say I never worked a day there because I enjoyed what I did.