DescriptionDuring Sophomore Inspire Week I volunteered at Soul Dog Rescue. One of the pieces of Inspire week was to help Soul Dog Rescue organize a fundraising event. For this fundraising event, I wrote a piece for the Animas Quill that would also make it into the Durango telegraph about the organization and their fundraiser. While at the shelter volunteering, there weren’t specific jobs as much as everyone did whatever work needed to be done. While I was working at the shelter with Soul Dogs, I painted walls, walked dogs, cleaned dog pens, and many other smaller jobs.
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Reflection
My biggest takeaway from Sophomore inspire week is the difficulty and complexity of running an animal shelter. There’s so many individual pieces that have to be put into it, and I respect people that work at and operate these shelters more now. While I was volunteering, I did a lot of different and varied jobs. Had there only been 3-4 of us, and not 8 the work we did wouldn’t be even close to possible in the time we had. I don’t know if this is a career I would like to go into in the future, but it’s not something I will rule out and not a job I would hate doing. At the current moment in my I am very directionless when it comes to my future career so I’m happy to have something I know I enjoy and I know the challenges of.
I do not feel like there are many, if any, connections between the work done at school and over inspire week. Other than collaborating with others, none of the work was even close to the same. At school we don’t paint walls, walk dogs, disinfect kennels, or anything like that. While working at the shelter, we didn’t do stuff we normally did at school. As the actual tasks we did were very different, the skills used are also quite different. Other than collaborating with others there wasn’t a huge amount of overlap. Working at the shelter didn’t require a lot of critical thinking for example. The work was more basic “move a over to b” or “do x to y” and not having to figure out how to accomplish them.
I believe I was good at time management during Inspire Week. At no point did I feel like there wasn’t any work for me to do. Chances are, if I looked around there would be something for me to do, even if it wasn’t a massive task. On the other hand, I never felt at any point I was slacking off, or off task. At many times I did feel like it would be possible for me to slack off, however. Yes, some jobs felt less meaningful or worthwhile, but they were all necessary. Same with stuff I didn’t want to do.
My YouScience results do not have any connection with the work I did during Inspire Week. The results I got from YouScience basically said I was only useful doing technical work and not adaptable jobs or working with other people. During Inspire week I did a lot of different individual jobs, varying from manual labor to small and more personal jobs working with animals and other people. I enjoyed doing the work at Soul Dogs Rescue, but I cannot stand doing more technical type jobs alone. For me collaboration and more diversity of tasks is incredibly important, so I do not believe my YouScience results were accurate.
I would tell future sophomores to not choose based on what their friends are in, but choose based on what they’re interested and what they are good at. If you choose based on your friends and not on what you want to spend your week doing, you’ll either spend the three days doing absolutely nothing productive with your friends who chose for the same reason you did, or bored because they actually chose something based on what they would enjoy. If you choose something you’re not good at for the same reason, you also won’t have a good time. Say you’re really bad at skiing but you join the Adaptive Skiing SIW, you’re not going to have a good time.
I do not feel like there are many, if any, connections between the work done at school and over inspire week. Other than collaborating with others, none of the work was even close to the same. At school we don’t paint walls, walk dogs, disinfect kennels, or anything like that. While working at the shelter, we didn’t do stuff we normally did at school. As the actual tasks we did were very different, the skills used are also quite different. Other than collaborating with others there wasn’t a huge amount of overlap. Working at the shelter didn’t require a lot of critical thinking for example. The work was more basic “move a over to b” or “do x to y” and not having to figure out how to accomplish them.
I believe I was good at time management during Inspire Week. At no point did I feel like there wasn’t any work for me to do. Chances are, if I looked around there would be something for me to do, even if it wasn’t a massive task. On the other hand, I never felt at any point I was slacking off, or off task. At many times I did feel like it would be possible for me to slack off, however. Yes, some jobs felt less meaningful or worthwhile, but they were all necessary. Same with stuff I didn’t want to do.
My YouScience results do not have any connection with the work I did during Inspire Week. The results I got from YouScience basically said I was only useful doing technical work and not adaptable jobs or working with other people. During Inspire week I did a lot of different individual jobs, varying from manual labor to small and more personal jobs working with animals and other people. I enjoyed doing the work at Soul Dogs Rescue, but I cannot stand doing more technical type jobs alone. For me collaboration and more diversity of tasks is incredibly important, so I do not believe my YouScience results were accurate.
I would tell future sophomores to not choose based on what their friends are in, but choose based on what they’re interested and what they are good at. If you choose based on your friends and not on what you want to spend your week doing, you’ll either spend the three days doing absolutely nothing productive with your friends who chose for the same reason you did, or bored because they actually chose something based on what they would enjoy. If you choose something you’re not good at for the same reason, you also won’t have a good time. Say you’re really bad at skiing but you join the Adaptive Skiing SIW, you’re not going to have a good time.