Journal #38

My job shadowing experience was horrible.  I will be blunt about it because that is the truth.  I hated it so much.  I will give you a run through of what I did.  First off, I job shadowed at Illinois State Police because forensics interests me.  We were told to arrive at 10:00 in the morning and enter through the South entrance.  There were five of us total that were job shadowing.  We were led into a conference room and we sat down.  Yes we were at a police station and we were in a conference room, which is where we would be for the next hour.  Sergeant Natasha was the woman giving us the presentation.  She gave us a presentation on how to become a state trooper. The presentation was boring and she didn't even make it.  She got it from their ISP website online.  Once the presentation was over, she asked if we had any questions.  Sergeant Natasha made us each ask a question because no one wanted to ask a question.  It is really sad that the young adults job shadowing a potential career did not want to ask questions because they were so bored.  I HATED IT SO MUCH.  I DISLIKED IT VERY MUCH. VERY VERY MUCH.  This career is an option for me but I still do not know anything about it at all because I DID NOT LEARN ANYTHING.  The only free thing I got from job shadowing was a business card and a packet on doing an internship with ISP.  The internship is only for people in their third year of college or older.  Very helpful thank you.  NO.  It is not helpful at all.  The only good thing that came out of my job shadowing experience was that on my way home, I stopped at Headwest and got my dad and I a sandwich.  I also got a Jones soda, which was delicious.  I wish that I could have gone somewhere else because so many other people had fun and actually did things.