Job Shadowing Experience Essay

For my job shadowing experience, I went to the Henry Ford museum. I wasn’t around any of my fellow students, but there were other people there. The experience was mostly directed towards a group, and explaining a majority of the jobs that you could have there from guest services to security. It wasn’t really personalized or narrowed down, so you got a lot of exposure in just eight hours. The people who were overseeing this mass job shadow, Jim and Tim were pretty lively. It was pretty clear that they loved what they did.
Jim and Tim both spent years in guest services, so the ‘typical day’ is going to revolve more around their time there. Guest services is the first and last thing that people see when they enter The Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, or the Ford Rouge tour. Because of this, they
It helps, but it isn’t necessarily required. You had to go through training specific for the job that you end up going into in the beginning, but, even then they tell you that you can’t really grasp the info by just showing up for the training alone. You have to learn on the jobs. You learn where everything is by getting lost a few times. You find out what’s the best way to wrap food up by doing it several times. You learn how to make swirls at the frozen custard stand by failing an insane amount of times.
From this job shadowing, I could confidently say that, while the Henry Ford is a great first job experience to have, It’s not necessarily somewhere I’d like to spend the rest of my life working. Museums are where I’m most in my element, but I have bigger plans for the future. Being around so much history might help me gain some ideas, but if I stay there, they won’t be put into action. I couldn’t do that so early on. The most interesting part was either finding out how much stuff goes on behind the scenes, or how many people come in there per year(it was somewhere in the