James Mundell

Career Question 1:

• What Made you decide to go in this career

Answer 1:

• "So my dad was principle at would've been Johnson in the 80's and there was a load of computers that were going to be either tossed or thrown away but they were still good but they were old but in Denver, they were getting in his scout the international scout and driving all the way up with him and we picked up everything we could and we had no idea what it was just a bunch of apple tuning C's and grabbed all the cables and monitors and put them in the back and came back here to start our lab..."

Career Question 2:

• Why do you think this job is interesting

Answer 2:

• "There is never a dull moment *Laughs* technology, the cliché is that technology is always changing and so i will be trying and doing new things and there will always be problems, networking for example is a huge field that is not shrinking or anything its in fact expanding because the amount of devices that are gonna be online, uh it doubles every year theres just more continuity more demand for that that kind of stuff..."

Career Question 3:

• If someone were to want this job what would you say to them?

Answer 3:

• um become very good at becoming patient but learning how to be a self taught learner being able to adapt those are actually good people skills are essential, because its not you know the stereotype computer person is you know rude or not good with people but thats not true for the sucessful one because you have to be on technology and technology and we are connecting people so you have to interacted with people and that is a huge skill to develop so having good people and being able to trouble shoot on your own and a desire to learn because what you learn now is not what you its not gonna be the same thing amicable when you are older or technology has changed dont be wanting to learn a specific thing go for many..."

Career Answer 4:

• What is the most interesting thing you find at your work place.

Answer 4:

• "Um the most interesting thing is discovering where things are, since i only have been here for a year, been only working here for a year but ive been doing this for a long time, um there is always new things to discover so thats exciting, with a side intention to it my whole family has been involved with education and so whats fun for me is to work with kids and students i like that cause they're fun to work with they are really great especially seniors *Laughs* cause they're at the end of their career so its uh school and they are ready to start their new adventure so thats why i love working with kids"

Career Answer 5

• What is the most stressful thing in your job?

Answer 5:

• "when something goes wrong and its depending on everyone when the internet goes out or the power goes out or the switch goes down things like that, that can be stressful but also being able to tackle that challenge is exciting people are like to them why isnt this working and to me is like oh well i get to fix something i get to improve on something it gives me an opportunity to make it better so it can be a little stressful when everybody is screaming at you but if you take that and stride and say that we are doing the best we can that kind of thing it usually smooths out pretty well and no system will be perfect..."

I want to be able to do anything i can for a technology career and or career that i want to do in the future. I want to be a IT manager to be able to focus on tech and be able to advance it for society. I want to graduate with a good career in technology or Psychology.

Right now i work as a lead life guard and as a lifeguard at the Community Rec center, I manage and watch the pool to make sure everything and people are okay. Here soon i will be working at shatter image.