Journal 8 Collin Thacker

(My mother who always told me to do hard but quality work with her degrees)

The profile that meant the most to me would have to be The Sanitation Workers (page 125). One quote would be “I work with him, he’ll work with me”. (Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work by Dave Isay page 126). This shows that there is cooperation between these two and they are willing to work together to get the job done. 

The fact that all these people have found their true calling in life that they love to get up every morning and do. It goes beyond a job. It goes on a career. It s basically a way of life and a standard to live by to produce quality work and love it.  I always try to put the customer first and understand there needs/wants so i can do my best to provide that for them.

An interesting word i found was “sync” or “synchronize” which means to harmonize or come together. Working in union.

I also knew that to have your calling it might not be the most amount of money being paid even though that’s not the reason for choosing it.

My research question is how much money do sanitation workers make anyway?

Answer: $12.63 in Ohio

Brainstorming Exercise for Presentations-- from Mike Lohre

Good day students, and I would like you to do some subject brainstorming on the blog here for this project, so that we all can see it, think about subjects together, and then decide on a partner and a subject that we have interest in and can pursue with some fire and intellect.

Use the COMMENTS feature below this very post to contribute your ideas.  Write a short paragraph about two different brainstorms'

--The first of these subjects should be practical: a career or occupation that you are actually interested in and might consider doing.  At the least, it is an occupation or job that we witness fairly regularly in the culture.

--The second of these subjects should be wilder.  Perhaps you can never see yourself doing this job, but man is it interesting, and you really admire the people who have the skill, talent, or guts to do this type of job.

So using the Comments feature, share each of your two brainstorm subjects and tell us why you think both of them are good subjects for this project, in your opinion.

Have fun and I look forward to seeing your creative results!

DEADLINE: Have these posted by noon on Sunday, November 3, at the latest.

Invention is a crucial part of any creative or composition process.

Journal Seven- Madi Conrad

Journal Seven- Walcott

One Major conclusion I made from my observation about Walcott is that he decided to become a firefighter by following in his father's footsteps. This was intriguing to me because many people i know, including myself do not usually want to follow in their parent's footsteps. They want to make their own path and follow their own dreams, wants, and desires. I found it very interesting that Walcott also chose firefighting as his job because he receives an inside feeling of happiness for saving someone's life by putting himself in harm's way. I feel that a lot more people have begum to understand that same feeling that Walcott has when doing his job.
A direct quote from the book, Callings by Dave Isay, is on page 55, when it communicates to the reader the beliefs that Walcott has developed in his world of being a good fireman. On page 55, it says, "..When you put yourself in harm's way to help someone else, that's really what makes you a good fireman" (Isay 55). This quote represents how Walcott has begun to build the choices in his life as a fireman.
My Research question for this chapter is, what are the technical differences between a volunteer firefighter and a firefighter who graduated from the academy's job? The results I found to my research question was that a volunteer firefighter still receives intense training and recieve an EMT certificate but, they many only assist to putting out fires unlike an academy graduated fire fighter.

I chose this image of the Chicago Fire Department Engine Co. 116 as Walcott said that was the engine he was on when he first started his job as a firefighter.

Journal 7 - Tammy Guo

In the chapter, Barabara Abelhauser found her calling, and it was to be a bridgetender. She was miserable with her old job as a state employee and wanted a job that promotes relaxation and peacefulness. The two major conclusions I made about this profile were that having the job of your dreams, you have to be okay with the downfalls of it since Abelhauser’s job as a bridgetender that has horrible pay and terrible benefits. Well, that did not stop her because this job made her happy, and she was excited to go to work, and most importantly, she loved it. She knew that money doesn't buy happiness. One could have all of these great things, but if they are not happy, does it matter that they have money and all of these benefits. Another conclusion is that though she does not have this great job that others would necessarily want, she gets to experience things others do not. She gets to see the entire city and see it in ways that others do not. Abelhauser also gets to see people and understand people in new ways. She hears everything people say and sees more than most people have. Though this job does not bring all good things considering she has seen people lose limbs, she still now understands more than what she used to and more than others. Through this job, she learned to appreciate people and things in the way she has never before. 

An excellent direct quote from this profile is, “Most people do not stop to smell the roses, but I get to smell the roses eight hours a day. It is amazing” (Isay 21). It reveals that she takes her time to take in the world and what it has to offer. She doesn't breeze over it and notices things that other people cannot, and it helps promote zen. 

A research question: What is the importance of bridgetenders? 

Bridgetenders serve as the brains behind motorized and mechanical bridges, operating them as a form of traffic guard in order to allow watercraft and vehicles safe passage around a waterway.

website used: https://www.careermatch.com/job-prep/career-insights/profiles/bridge-tender/

The Ortega River Bridge Opening

Journal 7: Jacob Francis

           The story I chose from Callings was the story about Scientist Dr. Dorothy Warburton. Dr. Warburton grew up in a time where women were expected to stay home and take care of the children. Dr. Warburton didn't take that, she was determined to be a scientist. One conclusion that can be made from this story is to never give up no matter who tells you to. Dr. Warburton's father always wanted a boy but when Warburton came around he never expected her to be able to do much. "My father didn't really have much expectation that, as a girl, it would ever lead to anything" (Isay 43). Even though Warburton's father never thought she would amount to anything, she still became a doctor in human genetics.
A second conclusion that can come from this story is to believe in yourself even when it seems all odds are against you. At the time that Dr. Warburton spent at Columbia University, there weren't very many female professors or female students. As well with being one of the only females on campus conducting research, Dr. Warburton had four children! Dr. Warburton was committed to her work and never gave up on it.
A research question I had for this story was how many women had Doctorate degrees in the 1950s. I found that women only held 9.7% of all doctorate degrees in the 1950s. This was found from the National Center for Education Statistics.

This is a picture of Dr. Warburton with other genetic scientist in a research facility that specializes in Endocrinology.
 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjh5_-WnbjlAhXGi54KHXvPCsEQjB16BAgBEAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reifellowship.com%2Fprofessional-development%2F&psig=AOvVaw0YAyXrPzS8WWw0mGjVNLr4&ust=1572120977061269

Journal Seven from Teylar

Migrant workers working in the field.

In the story Callings by Dave Isay there is an interview with a man by the name Storm Reyes. Reyes grew up with neglectful and abusive field migrant farmworkers’ as parents. Because of the way he was raised, he didn’t really have any aspirations or dreams, and he sort of just did what he had to do in order to survive. 

One day when he was twelve years old, a bookmobile came to the fields where he lived. Since he wasn’t allowed to have books since him and his parents moved around a lot he had never really owned a book.”. . . because books are heavy, and when you’re moving around a lot you have to keep things minimal” (Isay 41). He took a few books home, read them and got hooked. It gave him the courage to leave the fields. He then devoted his time by going to school and getting higher education to become a librarian. When we did in class discussion, I asked how many children of migrant workers turned out to be migrant workers themselves because I was curious to see if there were more people with a story like Reyes’.

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Journal Seven- Keaton H

Keaton Hipsher
English 1109
24 October 2019

     The story that I chose to do for this journal is about Marat Kogut the NBA Referee. Kogut personality is he is the type of person that never gives up, no matter if the odds are against him. Kogut knows he will succeed. Like for an example, the chances of being an NBA Referee are really slim there are about only sixty referee job spots. One major factor he had to over come was Kogut's mom didn't want him becoming a referee. Kogut's mom wanted to see him as a lawyer or a doctor because there were millions of job openings other than just sixty as a NBA Referee. One of my favorite things Kogut said after his dad asked him "how many referee there were in this country?" Kogut said, "It's about sixty. And I'm going to be one of them"(Isay,29).
     Two major takeaways I got from this little story is you can do anything you literally want to, you just have to grind and move up the ladder to the big prize at the top. Another thing I toke from this story is how you need to be there for someone the way Kogut's dad was for him through his journey. Also how his dad is still there for him watching every game when it is on T.V. just like he went to all of his high school and rec games that he refereed when he was sixteen.
     My question is- What was the first two NBA teams you ever refereed? Which I couldn't find.
But I fount one of his most memorable NBA assignments. The game between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers on January 30th, 2011, in the teams first meeting in the 2010 NBA Finals.

Marat Kogut has been an NBA referee for 11 seasons.