Working at Lagoon

Hey peoples of the blogging community. My life has been so spectacular that I can hardly believe it..... not really, but I can hope.

So... I really need some help from my fellow reader(s), I have no idea how many people read this. If you do, give me a shout out some time. My request is that you give me an honest opinion about me working at a certain place, but I need all of you to take my side. I would like to work at Lagoon this summer. For those of you who don't know, Lagoon is an amusement park that is a mile or two away from my house which is a pretty fun place to have near your house with roller coasters, swimming area, golf course, camping area, pioneer village, kiddy rides, and games, but not as fun as Disneyland and Six Flags (I've never been to Six Flags though, but I can imagine...) Click on this particular sentence for a magical portal to the Lagoon website.

Anyway, Mom didn't let Ashley work there because she heard they were bad about letting people off on Sundays, so I was totally cool with not working there because there's no way I would work on a Sunday. But, Anthony Bailey worked there last year, and he's going to this year, and he said that he's never had a problem with getting Sundays off. My school was conveniently having a career week this week, and the eight graders got to have job interviews yesterday. We got to fill out an application and make a resume. They also courteously gave out applications for Lagoon. Therefore, I used this to my advantage.

During my English class, I had my "fake" job interview. I requested to have my interviewer be someone from Lagoon. We had to wear dress clothes for our interview and act all professional (haha me professional! I can't even spell the word right, it's only spelled right on here because I used spell check). So I went in and shook the nice lady’s hand, and we started my interview. “Tell me about yourself” Uhhhhhhhhh….. I’m usually unusual, according my blog. But I said something like “I like to learn new things and challenge myself” and other things, which are actually true, I wasn’t lying. She asked me what my strengths are, weaknesses, how I would rate myself on stuff, what a good employee should do, how I would define “honest”, and past experience. I said that I dog-sat for Marjorie and did eBayish stuff for Dad (I didn’t use those terms, I tried to talk professionally). She also asked what my references would say if she asked them about me, which I answered truthfully. Lori might say that I’m good at planning out stuff (because I was the Beehive president :P) and Jill would say I’m a good girl. It was hard answering those because I didn’t think of anything to say before hand, so I had to think super duper fast and use good grammar (which I was able to do thanks to Hannah :D). I thought I did a spectacular job. When we got to the end, she asked if I had any questions. So I asked her about getting Sundays off at Lagoon and she said that she works in the games department and that they’re really good about making sure that people get Sundays off and she doesn’t usually have any problems. Yay!! I then said something like “Oh good! Because I was actually interested in working at Lagoon so I had been wondering about that, but that sounds grand.” Well, not exactly, but you get the point. So she then gave me a small fois de papier about the Job Fair at Farmington Jr. High that they’ll be having and she said that she would definitely hire me because I sounded and looked professional and I’d be a great addition to her employees. She then told me some things I need to work on for job interviews, which happened to only be looking confident. I didn’t feel confident, but then I did after that.

So after school was out, I enlightened Dad about my fabulous discoveries, and then Dad later informed Mom about how my interview went. I really want a job there, and here are some reasons why I think I should:

• I get paid
• No work on Sundays
• Even if I did, by the slimmest chance, be told I had to work on a Sunday, I'd tell them no and/or quit
• My friends will be working there
• 2.5 college credits
• free entrance
• it's nearby, so I can ride my bike, take the bus, or beg for a ride
• It will be fun
• It's good practice for working in the future
• I really want to.

And, according to the website:

• Free entrance to Lagoon
• End of season bonus
• Family Days where your family comes to Lagoon at an incredible discount
• Discount coupons for friends and family
• Earn high school credit through the School to Careers program
• Excellent incentives and employee recognition programs
• Employee parties throughout the season
• Discounts on park merchandise
• Meet new friends
• Competitive wages
• Opportunity to advance and gain supervisor experience
• College Scholarships through the Robert E. Freed Foundation

So, it's still Mom and Dad's choice, but I want to work there super duper bad and it will be so fun and I'll make money to help buy things so my parents don't have to buy them for me, or to save up for college. I want everyone's honest, nice, on my side, opinion please. Should I get this great opportunity? Me thinks it would be awesome.