Sunshine Coast Appliance & Mattress Assistant Manager
- The meaning behind this job was work, it was a job…, it helps build your resume, pay your bills, etc… At the same time I did enjoy working with my colleagues, with helping them to learn and grow, helping the customers and staff with information about the products so that the customers could get the best informed decisions about what they wanted. And helping out when necessary to keep the team functioning as smoothly as possible, and to make everyone’s lives as easy as I could to reduce staff turnover and do what I could to make it a nice place to work.
WESTERN SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN (WSFC) Board of Directors Treasurer
- The meaning behind this job was of course to get work experience, build up my resume, and to have a contact to use as a reference. And that is where it started as I graduated from university, but over the months and years it developed beyond that, getting to know the volunteers each year and the other board members, into wanting to help the director as much as was possible with my limited time and knowledge of the area to help children with physical disabilities to make their lives better, to help them find supports, and for them to be able to access government funding and help.
Westland Insurance Insurance Advisor
- This like with Sunshine coast appliance has meaning as work primarily but also I did enjoy working with my colleagues, again helping them to learn and grow, with helping them learn about insurance and when they had more detailed questions about the computer systems or about details of insurance I was primarily the go-to person for the other newer employees before they asked someone more senior.
I also enjoyed working with the customers helping them to understand what the different details meant in home, travel, auto, etc insurance policies, the advantages/disadvantages of choosing them and with different price points etc. I also found meaning behind being a go between for customers and ICBC.