Job shadow narrative
For my job shadow I met Ken Britten who allowed me to take a tour of his very own packing shed and then took me to meet Scott Carlisel the supervisor of a big packing shed called booth ranches. The day of my Job shadow was March 18, 2016 and it lasted from about 7 am to 12 pm. The reason why I choose this specific field is because I have always been interested in learning more about this because well I live in the central valley and I’m curious as how the oranges get from the fields to me.
The first thing that happened was I met the guy who would be showing me around, Ken Britten a small packing shed owner. He first took me to etc. to see his personal packing shed which was not what Imagined, I imagined a big factory but it was still really cool. Then after that he took around to some of his fields and showed me how and when to start picking the fruit off the trees and when was the right time to start picking. Next he asked me if I wanted to go and tour a big packing shed in orange cove and I said yes. On the way over there we passed some other large packing sheds and fields and literally almost every field and or packing shed we passed he gave me a small lesson on what it was and how it worked.
Then we arrived at booth ranches a equipment storage place where I met Scott Carlisel and he showed me and Ken a new field working machine that allowed the workers to pick the fruit at a faster rate and at a more efficient rate. After we took a drive up the road to the actual packing shed and that itself was more than I ever could have hoped for because literally now I feel completely satisfied of how the oranges go from the fields to stores. We toured the packing shed and it was like a human body each part more important than the last, the cleaning process seemed to be the most important part of the whole shed because one thing that Scott kept repeating during the tour was that food safety was their number one priority and that is anything went wrong in that system they would have a risk of that shed being shut down and 100’s of workers and losing their jobs. Finally we reached the end of the tour and Scott asked me if I liked the tour and I said “I loved it, I now have newfound respect for the packing shed industry” Then he gave me a box of free oranges which were really sweet and really ripe.
I learned how every job has a specific importance to the packing shed process. Such as the individual workers who sort the bad fruit from the good fruit this is a very big job because if a bad fruit gets through it could get packed and sent to the store and get sold and then the customer will get a bad fruit and will not wanna buy anymore because they gave them a bad product. The one thing that really stuck out to me was the cleaning process, the oranges go through so much cleaning that they are really shiny and looked literally brand new.
At the end of the Shadow I started asking Ken about his job and how his life has been affected by it, one of his main answers to the questions was that if the crop doesn’t grow that he is into a really bad position because that is literally his way of making money and supporting himself and his family. In conclusion I was very satisfied with my experience and it makes me even more interested in joining this field. Yes, I would do this again if I had the chance to.
The first thing that happened was I met the guy who would be showing me around, Ken Britten a small packing shed owner. He first took me to etc. to see his personal packing shed which was not what Imagined, I imagined a big factory but it was still really cool. Then after that he took around to some of his fields and showed me how and when to start picking the fruit off the trees and when was the right time to start picking. Next he asked me if I wanted to go and tour a big packing shed in orange cove and I said yes. On the way over there we passed some other large packing sheds and fields and literally almost every field and or packing shed we passed he gave me a small lesson on what it was and how it worked.
Then we arrived at booth ranches a equipment storage place where I met Scott Carlisel and he showed me and Ken a new field working machine that allowed the workers to pick the fruit at a faster rate and at a more efficient rate. After we took a drive up the road to the actual packing shed and that itself was more than I ever could have hoped for because literally now I feel completely satisfied of how the oranges go from the fields to stores. We toured the packing shed and it was like a human body each part more important than the last, the cleaning process seemed to be the most important part of the whole shed because one thing that Scott kept repeating during the tour was that food safety was their number one priority and that is anything went wrong in that system they would have a risk of that shed being shut down and 100’s of workers and losing their jobs. Finally we reached the end of the tour and Scott asked me if I liked the tour and I said “I loved it, I now have newfound respect for the packing shed industry” Then he gave me a box of free oranges which were really sweet and really ripe.
I learned how every job has a specific importance to the packing shed process. Such as the individual workers who sort the bad fruit from the good fruit this is a very big job because if a bad fruit gets through it could get packed and sent to the store and get sold and then the customer will get a bad fruit and will not wanna buy anymore because they gave them a bad product. The one thing that really stuck out to me was the cleaning process, the oranges go through so much cleaning that they are really shiny and looked literally brand new.
At the end of the Shadow I started asking Ken about his job and how his life has been affected by it, one of his main answers to the questions was that if the crop doesn’t grow that he is into a really bad position because that is literally his way of making money and supporting himself and his family. In conclusion I was very satisfied with my experience and it makes me even more interested in joining this field. Yes, I would do this again if I had the chance to.