Month: May 2025

My mentor for a day was my grandfather on my mom’s side. He talked to me about how he got into early web development for a career. On top of that he worked with Apple selling Apple IIs to schools. He also worked at HP in their earlier days helping them come into the Vancouver market. He started there when they were a small group in Canada. 

I chose him as my mentor as he had a lot of experience with business and a lot of experience with the early start into technology. I was interested in knowing how businesses worked and he has a lot of experience doing many different things. His wealth of experience, for example, years ago he travelled to the Caribbean with a business partner to invest in water pumps and filtration systems. He did a lot of things!

Anything to make money that he found worthwhile. 

This leads to the driving question: how did learning from other career journeys help to shape your own?

After an hour and a half conversation with my grandfather, I learned that it is important to take risks in business when you believe you can succeed. If you do fail, not to be too worried about it because you could have been too early into the business. Everything is a chance to learn and learn how to do it better next time. At this point, I don’t know what I want to get into, but I know it would be helpful to know how to understand how business works. He talked about how to trust people in business. One thing that helped him was a psychology course he took where he could distinguish if people were genuine or ingenuine. He said it was important to understand who you were going into business with and to ask around for that person’s reputation. 

Overall, I found this conversation with my grandfather to be very informative on what I want to learn in the future, even though I do not have a specific career in mind this conversation help me understand what it means to be in business and now I have a more understanding of what it is so for my jobs I want to do in the future. I can take this experience of my grandfather with me.

In the past month we have been working on a radio play. The play is a satire about the 1950s it it a lot like pleasantville. Our class were split 10 groups who made scripts and their where producers/sound technicians and voice actors. The play was to show the reality of the 1950s in a satirical way showed how people think the 1950 are better than they they are. The play started with the brother and sister who fight over a room they want to use the old janitor gave the kids key and a lecture on 1950 then the kids get transported to the 1950. Though out the play we showed how 1950s viewed women, relationships and family dynamics. In addition we showed how women started to get jobs and how they were getting more respect outside the home. Women breaking general gender norms by doing more sports and wanting to be more than a housewife. We overdid each of these 1950s beliefs. We falsified how much women were not respected in the 50s to make it more satirical. Everything was exaggerated. So we had the sister be really into hockey, which the principal in the play didn’t like. Women sports weren’t really around at this time.  We showed that right after WWII that there was a shift and women could do more. To show how we can educate people on why women and different races should have the same opportunities to do the same as everyone. All in all, I found this project to be Very interesting and fascinating to learn about what happened in the 1950s and the Falsity of it was interesting to learn and understanding how the 1950s really worked.