Reflection

I have had great learning experience from doing work with my mentor. Not only was the focus on finances  it was the whole business field in general. Also there was an important need for communicating with other people.  I have had a great learning all this information about people and how to understand them.  The strongest tool available is listening with two ears, using that information you hear, and talk and respond to their questions.  Let people talk, because people love to hear themselves talk about what they love.  My mentor and I listened to this guy talk about gold and the economy for a good 45 minutes before we left because we took an interest in what the man talked about and it started off as a simple conversation about how they price gold (this was a cash4gold worker at Tanforan).

This job requires skills and initiative, you cannot be afraid to go and talk to others because that is the basis of the whole operation.  It is here in this field that I can take the confidence that I can feel and apply it and talk to others, be interested in what they do, and then try to help them out of the are in debt or the know someone else that does.  I had a wonderful time trying to apply what I learned and I hope to do so in the future.