Mentorship

Content:

    Literal

My mentor is Donald Bower, at Edward Jones' Financial Advisory.

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

 The most important thing I have gained from this experience is how the financial world operates. This both helps me towards Senior Project in answering my essential question, and for furthering my future endeavors in the subject of Finance - I plan to achieve a Finance minor.

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

I learned a lot about school funding and expenditures, which is a very large part of my topic, especially pertaining to my third answer relating to socioeconomic inequality. My mentor had assigned me a research project where I was a theoretical school, and I had to allocate my funding wisely. Doing this was a large part of truly grasping my third answer of "To ensure students are granted equal educational opportunity" because it gave me the research backing needed to truly comprehend the facts that make my answer possible.

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

I am completing my mentorship at Edwards Jones' Financial Advisory.

2.   Who is your contact?

My contact is David Bower, a financial broker.

3.   How many total hours have you done?

I have completed 11 hours.
  
4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

The service I have completed so far has mostly involved observing and talking to my mentor about what his job entails, and how he works with clients both on a personal and intellectual level.  I have learned a lot from him about how to deal with clients, and how working in any financial field is both extremely competitive and structured. Of course, we have many future plans ahead of us.

Summer Mentorship Component

Literal: 

1. (Know) Using google drive, link a log of specific hours and a description of your duties.

Here.

2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?

I worked for Ms. Sammy Urgo. Her main office number is (213)485-2352. You may have to ask for her.

3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?  List them. 

- How do different law offices respond to different cases?
- Is a law system based upon the absence of empathy the most effective one?
- How is a business most effectively run without implementation of profit maximization? [I noticed this because the office building was run by a man who barely maintained it.]
- What am I going to do?

Interpretive

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

The most important thing I gained from this experience was the sense of how our legal system works. In my time working, I had read many a criminal file, and I realized that our current law system revolves around the belief that in order to have a system as effective as possible, you have to disregard emotion and make it as bureaucratic as possible. This makes sense in some ways, but not in others.

Applied

5. How did what you did help you choose a topic?  Please explain.

This helped me choose a topic because I was at one point considering doing something in law, because my mother works closely in their department. However, I never knew how much bureaucracy is involved in resolving criminal cases. This helped me choose a topic, because I now know if I ever do a topic relating to law, I will very likely be doing office jobs. I now know this is not for me.


- Adrian Gallegos, proud occupant of south house.