Hello everyone! My name is Summer Spicer, and I am one of the part-time employees here at Cassy Electric. I figured I would tell you guys a little bit about myself and what I do in a day.

For a bit of background information, before working here, I was a part of the construction class at our local career center. The career center is an area that allows students to take classes that are focused on teaching students the basic skills needed for different jobs. Students might learn how to weld, work on cars, take care of plants, etc. As a senior in high school, the career center offered me the opportunity to become a work-based learning student. This meant I could go get a construction-based job and get both the credit for the class, and the opportunity to test out my skills in real life. This is how I came to work for Cassy Electric.

When I first started this job, I worked out in the field but it became apparent that this wasn’t a great position for me. I didn’t know a lot about electrical work, other than the basics, and I don’t enjoy being anywhere where spiders might be lurking. Thankfully, on days when I couldn’t get to jobs in the field, I would work in the office. Originally I just helped out with blueprints and testing out software. I would tally up what we needed and send that information out or test out different software to see if it might work better than what we were currently using. This slowly translated to me becoming a permanent office worker.

Nowadays I come to work around noon, I have class before that, and get started trying to find possible leads. My job is to essentially take a little bit of work off each person’s plate and help them out where I can. For instance, this week I was asked to import contacts into our emailing list, find and fill out vendor information, keep an eye on any possible leads, and upload a few different posts to our social media pages. It isn’t anything too difficult, but the tasks are often time-consuming and would be otherwise pushed aside in favor of bigger projects. I handle all of that until 4:00 pm and then I head home to spend the rest of my evening playing video games and hanging out with my family.

That’s what I do in a day, if you enjoyed this little blurb then please reach out and maybe I’ll show you a little bit more of what I do. See you next time!!