Job Shadowing

I had a really good time when I went job shadowing. It took me a long time to get there because it was all the way out by Lincoln Land kind of, off Toronto Road and way back in the back of this little place called Industrial Park. I went to Canham Graphics, and at first I thought it was going to be really boring because when they showed me around and I just thought all they did was made signs and put stuff on cars. But it was actually really cool when we got into it. They started of with showing me all of the machines that they use and a quick demonstration of how to use them. When they showed me the machines, I thought that was all they were going to do all day and that I was not going to like it, but that is not really what it was like at all. Until around 11 or 11:30, Doug (the guy I was shadowing) and Justin (another worker there) were putting a giant picture on a Chiles Team truck, and it was pretty cool. They used this like, colored vinyl that was adhesive on the back side, and had this just huge picture of the Chiles team. After they were done with that, they said we were going to order lunch. They even paid for mine. We got it from somewhere called Chaditos, or they call it, Little Chads. It was pretty good. After lunch they were pretty busy making more signs, so that was kind of boring because I could not really do anything but watch. It was interesting to watch, but not hands on or anything. At one point, they asked me if I wanted some leftover vinyl to take home. I wasn't really sure what I could do with it, and they said I could just put in on stuff and use and exacto knife to cut out stuff. So I took this really pretty aqua marine color, it was kind of metallic-y, and covered the backside of my phone with it. Then I took a some white and cut out a swirly design and put it on the back so the blue would come through. I like it, I think it looks really cool. They also gave me a bunch of other pieces of vinyl in different colors to take home. Towards the end of the day, Doug was working on a drag car for Tim Wilkerson, who I guess is a really big deal around here, he races drag cars and is basically in the dragcar version of Nascar. So he was working on the decals for that car and detailing some flames on the side with piping in a teal color...then he asked if I wanted to help pipe. I said yes, and he walked out of the room. I really didn't want to mess up since this car was kind of a big deal, but I didn't. i finished the piping on both sides and it looked really cool. Then day ended around 4:30, and overall I had a really good time.