Paige Cyrus

I worked about forty-five hours per week for 6 months as a caregiver for Linda Storey in 2024 before returning to college. Linda is a woman with a disease that makes her incapable of moving any part of her body, so my responsibilities included daily tasks that she could not do herself such as:

• Getting her out of bed in the morning
• Bathing her and getting her dressed
• Cooking meals and feeding her
• taking her to appointments
• administering her medication

I worked for about a year and half at McDonald's while I was in high school. During this year and a half I worked every Saturday and Sunday from 5am-1pm while also going to school 5 days a week. This was my longest job and taught me a lot about commitment, teamwork and communication. Some of my responsibilities while working here were:

• Taking orders in the drive-thru
• Resolving problems in a timely manner
• Restocking all the supplies for rush hours
• Making coffees
• Ensuring clean stations, especially when it's busy
• Lots of multi-tasking such as taking orders while also collecting payments, cooking fries, bagging food or making drinks.

I worked as a camp counselor at a summer camp when I was 15. this was my first job. It only paid about $5 an hour, but it was extremely fulfilling. I would work Monday-Friday from 7:30am-4:30pm. I was assigned to a big group of 5 year olds, which is a very cute but challenging age for children. I had many responsibilities at this job including the following:

• Constant attendance checks to ensure safety
• Accompanying children to their different activities throughout the day
• Helping children adjust to being away from their parents
• Growing connections with the kids so they could feel comfortable and have fun
• Coming up with fun inclusive games for the kids to play
• Settling arguments amongst the children quite often