Second Interview Questions

The questions I have come up with so far, regarding on my mentor and his expertise in the field are:

1) Did you ever imagine being in this field?
2) What made you decided to own your own skate shop?
3) How difficult was it at the beginning to build your shop?
4) Did you receive any help or did it solo?
5) How long have you been in the business?
6) Did you take any courses to be in this field, if so which ones?
7) How exactly do you get your merchandise for your shop?
8) What is the biggest problem you have encountered so far?
9) What is the best thing you enjoy in owning your shop?
10) How long did it take for your business to start up and successfully make profit?
11) Do you regret anything and if yes, why?

Working EQ

The Pentagon:

1) Positive Statement: A positive thing that has happened as a result on what I have completed so far is that I had to make a resume, which I haven't done besides a college resume. Another thing, I have been skating more and I really enjoy it.

2) EQ Content: When I interviewed Angelo, an employee who works at Utility Board Shop, he mentioned that in order to be in the "biz" I need to surround myself on my topic and gain knowledge on it by. That's what I have been doing just surrounding myself to skateboarding and skate shops trying to understand more of it.

3) In this senior project what has worked for me so far would have to be the interview. It went really well and was not as dificult I thought it was going to be, maybe because I got along with the interviewee.

4) What hasn't worked so far is the mentorship part. I have not yet found a mentorship to work with and it is kind of stressful trying to find one but I won't stop.

5) Finding Value: Based on my experience,

• The kind of questions that come to mind regarding to what I would like to study would be, where can I learn more about business management?
• My goal for the end of the year, is to learn and take what I have experienced to my next chapter of my life.
• I would like to talk to a manager of a skate shop next because they would have more knowledge on skate shop management.

Problem Statement

1) Skateshop Management 
2) Sometimes the customer service is not the greatest and could be very rude, leading in the clients in not wanting to purchase any items. Once I figure out a better solution in customer service and better away to attract customers to purchase items I will tell other local skateshops.
3) Sometimes some shops don't get the best quality items they can get and the boards are really bad. I will find out why the board is really bad and why the skateshop can't get the good quality board. After I will see the best solution on a material of a board.

Interview Preperation

1. The person that I plan to interview is Joseph, the manager of Platform Skate Shop. I want to interview him because I feel like he can give me a lot of information on a skate shop. Also he can give me any ideas or recommendations since he is the manager.

2. Additional questions I plan to ask:

• How did you get into being a manager?
• Do you enjoy being the manager, how so?
• What's the hardest thing you have to do?
• What's your daily routine?
• How do you manage the business side?
• Why did you choose being a manager of a skate shop?

Blog 2: Topic Choice

A. My topic choice is Skateshop Management. I choose this topic because I want to learn the business side in owning your own shop and see if it is difficult to have your own shop. I specifically picked a Skateshop because I have always been drawn into skating and always liked it since Elementary School.

B.I will accomplish these four things:

• As an effective learner,  I will learn all that my mentor-ship is willing to teach me.Also I would take what I learned and try to apply it to the real life. 
• As an effective communicator, I will ask all the questions I have so I can learn and gain experience. I will also listen to what my mentor says because he is the one who is teaching. 

• As an effective user of technology, I will use it as much as possible to help me out. I would try to see shortcuts when managing your own business with technology. 
• As an iPoly Citizen, I will apply what I learned into my school work to try and make more creative. 

Blog 1: Summer Mentorship Component

Literal (Know)

• Log Specific Hours
• Dawn Van Allen
• (909) 938-2435
• dawnvanallen@gmail.com
• Carlos D. Carrillo
• (909) 625-2248
• ccarrillo@uncommongood.org

Literal (Need to Know)

• How much money is spent in a week?
• What happens if the harvest isn't all sold?
• Where exactly would be the best location to put a farm?
• Does location really matter and if so how?
• What is the best amount of land for a farm?
• Is the old methods of farming better than the new methods?
• Would you need to contact the city council if you want to start your own farm?

Interpretive 

• The most important thing I gained form this experience was learning how difficult farming really is and that it is no fun games, it is serious business. When I first watched "Charlotte's Web" I thought farming was a piece of cake but that is because it was based on the animals but not the farmers. When I started seeing all the stuff that needs to be done and all the hard labor you actually have to do I realized it was very hard. You have to be really serious about what your doing because if your not your harvest might go wrong and that won't be good at all.

Applied

• This experience really helped choose my topic because I was debating if I should do my senior project on farming. I figured that farming wasn't going to be my topic because I was not passionate about it and expected it to be a little more exciting. Farming is like a business and I liked that part of farming so I think I am going to do my senior project on business. Something around the lines of a skate shop, I would really enjoy that since I like skating.