Zaiden Ortiz

I attending ABC NorCal for about two years. Which was a tradesman apprenticeship for carpentry, electrical, and plumbing. I got to learn a lot about carpentry, and the industry of construction. I would attend school about 1 week every 2-3 months. In the meantime of that I would be sent off to many jobs in the bay. I would work on low income apartments as in remodeling them. I also worked on a commercial school out in Greenfield building a whole new part of a school. These jobs were only a couple weeks long if I was lucky. The companies would use me for about a week then send me back to the school for good company reasons. It just looked really good on there company saying they hired and worked with apprentice. The work was getting very slow and I was told from my school that I would need to do schooling for longer due to my hours of work. It wasn’t my job to look for the jobs, as I was attending school still. I thought my best option was to just step away from the schooling and try to make my way up another way. I will say when I attended school, my instructors were very helpful and got a lot of skilled work from them.

Tesla Motors was my favorite job of all my jobs if I were to be honest. I had very little time in a big company, I wish I was still there until this day. Unfortunately the company had to let go of 10% of their employees due to many workers, stock dropping, etc. I was sadly apart of that crew. Anyways, my time at Tesla was started as an assembly line associate. I worked on the beginning part of the car. Which was called the Rear Under Body (Rub). It would first be clamped together machine called, Gigs machine. The metal would be clamped together and make the first ever part of the Tesla product. It would come out about 600 degrees, and my only job at the time was to break off all the metal excess that needed to be coming off the RUB. It would then be brought inside of the factory to be smoothly surfaced, which meant it was grinded down and cleaned up. I eventually, made my way up in a short span of 5-6 months to an Operator. An Operators position was to make sure the Giga Machine ran well, looking at data all day, fix a troubleshoot to not have downtime, do our daily maintenance procedures on downtime. Obviously, Elon Musk doesn’t want to have any downtime because the more parts the more money. In the time I worked there, I also learned how to be on a forklift, organizing parts, bringing in more parts on downtime to make sure the line is always moving.

I only worked at the Bindoctor for about a year, but my time there was amazing. I got to learn to work in a different type of industry. I worked in a warehouse prepping/repairing bins for agricultural. These bins would get sent to us from many different agricultural companies, that maybe had a cracked wall, needed new bolts, had a hole or two in them. My job was to fix those problems and prep them before sending them to our welders. They would plastic weld the holes, if a door needed to be welded back together, or whatever the case may be. It was more of a placeholder job for me to get experience for construction trade I was going to school for. It is a family based business, they were so much help in life, my career, and just learned a lot with such a small company with the Bindoctor.

At Valley Center Bowl, I started at a customer service position. Eventually made my way up to become into a Shift Manager. In the amount of time for working in the center, I learned to work in the Kitchen, Front Desk, Party Hosting, to doing Mechanical work on bowling lanes. Becoming a shift manager was my last position in the center, meaning to make sure everyone takes their lunches at the right times, helping the positions that are running behind. Making sure we are doing our closing procedures. Setting up for next day parties, cleaning everything up, closing out drawers, etc. I was able to interact with all my employees very well, it was just time to step away from the center due to being there for a very long time and grow myself somewhere else.