The Interview:

1. What is your job title: PawTrakz
2. What is your job description? Dog walker/hiker
3. What are the duties/tasks you preform at your job?  Boarding daycare for dogs that hikes and walks them.  Also helps train the dog off and on leash and to listen/listen to commands.
4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas.

a) Training?  Because you work with several dogs at once you need lots of experience with dogs, with like training and how to deal with them.  Watched and went to some seminars but its mostly experience that you need.

b) Education? Carolina went to interior designing school so you don’t really need any education for this job.

c) Experience? Carolina has worked with dogs for years and has worked in the past at another dog daycare for 4 years more than full time before she open PawTrakz.

d) Skills and attributes (personal qualities?) Carolina is a hard worker and works and hikes with the dogs a lot, she also needs to be really honest to tell the owners that the dog dislikes it there or if they are not a good fit.

1. (5) Some things you like about this job?  You get to spend a lot of time outside, which Carolina loves taking the dogs out for a hike in the forest.  You cant be lazy so it takes up a lot of time for walking/hiking with the dogs to tire them out.
2. (6) Some things you dislike about this job? Cleaning the dogs is tough sometimes and cleaning the daycare to get rid of accidents the dogs made or all the fur build up.  Cleaning the car is tough too with all the fur.
3. (7) How do you anticipate the job changing in the next 5 years or so?  Getting some help (Like Abby(me)) to get more clients and to grow the business.

Student Reflection:

1. 3 reasons why you would like this job

• I love dogs, they are my passion and I absolutely love working and being around them
• I love the outdoors and I love hiking as well and its a way to stay active
• You get to explore on the hike and enjoy being outdoors and its also a way to talk to other dog owners/lovers

1. (2) 3 reasons why I would not like this job

• The cleaning part is kind of icky but I mean I wouldn’t enjoy it its just something that you have to do in order to have this amazing job
• Sometimes on the hikes it starts to rain really hard or just when your getting started on the hike it starts to pour and that makes me uncomfortable
• Sometimes the dogs can be really energetic and/or not that well trained so you have to be really patient

1. (4) after high school I would love to go into zoology, dogs I don’t think have a huge part in it but I love being around animals.  I would also love to be part of PawTrakz because I’ve been volunteering there for around 3 years now and I absolutely love being around the dogs.  I feel like being with the dogs is good because I’m not loosing interest in animals and I’m around all sorts of different personality traits in the dogs.