mentor wrap up

Dear blog this is my last blog to wrap up what I have experience from my mentoring. I have spent twenty-five complete hours with a mentor and have found out a harbor masters job is quit hard to do. working on the docks and keeping things clean wasn't as hard as all the paper work that go's with the job. at the beginning of every month my mentor tim had to deal with all the billing process for each boat that is at that harbor. I had a lot of experience with my social skills and talking to everyone that lives on there boats. I also got to experience how the wiring works on the docks and the traffic ways on the water. Working on boats was fun but hard because I hade to wash five different boats and it was a lot of work but fun. The funest part of the mentoring was going on walks with my mentor to patrol the area for thing that are not in place or vandalism. On those walks though I got learn a lot of history such as the liberty ship which was used in WWII and learning about the old fueling station and docking station the navy used during that war as well. .In all of the experience I learned I would not want to make harbor master as my career goal but it was fun learning about it and obtaining a lot of knowledge about what it takes to be a harbor master

mentor final day

2hours done 25hours complete

Dear blog on may 11th I met with my mentor for the last day at 8:30 in the morning and left at 10:30 to finish the last two hours that remained for the mentoring. When I went in in the morning we started the day off on evaluating my experiences with him as a harbor master. We as well talked about my career goals and how to go about them to succeed in them. The final thing we did was talk about how the harbor masters job may not be a huge job every one would want but if you like being around the water and people then it is a great job.

mentor post 6

5hours done 23hours complete

On march 30 I met with my mentor and we messed with a transformer on one of the docks. There is one transformer for two boats and one of the plugs to it caut on fire. So me and my mentor had to go out there and repair the old plug with the wires still hot.after we finished fixing it my mento had me go to each doc and do matnence on eaxh of the docks ramps and doors because after a while there is corostion that gets in the doors and ramps. I was with my mentor for five hours that day and all that time we had to do all that work

mentor post 5

for this week I did not meet up with my mentor for he is in a competition for scotige men. this week I started more on my paper and have found better facts to support the military spendings. next Saturday my mentor tim and I plan to meet up again and spend 5 hours as we planned. he mentioned to me that we are going to be taking out the boat and I shall learn more about being on the water and what it takes to be a harbor master.

Mentor 4th day

3hours done 18hours complete

Dear blog on March 6th i met up with my mentor  at 1:00pm and i finished with him at 4:00pm. Tim and i had to go around the docks and clean them, for it is also a harbor masters job to keep the docks clean. He like to keep it nice and clean for there are many people that always pass by it and it looks better for the place to always look good, and to show how nice looking it is with all the boats around. That may not have been the best day there but i have a great time with tim as he explains how thing run around the harbor and meet a lot of new people.

mentor 3rd day

5hours done 15hours complete

Dear blog I have met up with tim again on febuary 16. Tim and I had to patrol around the docks and that marina area to find out if there are anyguests that souldnt park in any of the spots they shouldnt and to make sure things are clean around the area . As we did the scouting he told me some intresting stories like the old docking and fueling station. The fueling and docking station was used in wwll by the navy.there is one inportant boat that built there called the liberty. Now today the old fuelingdock sits there and falling to part. The the docking station used for the liberty and for new ships were built were sent out. When it was done I did another 5 hours and now have 15 gours done

mentor 2nd day



5hours done 10hours complete

Dear blog I met up with my mentor tim on febuary nineth and him and were washing four diffrent boats. Him and I washed two sail boats a house boat and a bigger boat that is a little smaller than a yhat. After all that hard work it was 1:30 and did 5 hours of work. Now I have ten hours done all together

first day with mentor at the harbor masters



5hours done 5hours complete

 

 

Dear blog I started on february 2nd and I met up with my mentor at the harbor masters at oaster point. My mentors name is tim and also had served 5 years in the coast guard befor he was a harbor master. Tim also was a medic in the ciast guard. That day that day I met up with him we did 5 hours of mentoring and he had taught me a lot in that anount of time.he showed me how to read the tide books for out in ouster point. You have add an extra hour that it said in the tide book for the tides coming in and out. Tim also showed me how to read all the meeters on the docks for each individual boat. The meeters show how much energy the boats use for each month to pay the bill for it. My mentor also showed me how to read the maps for the water freeways and were the big boats must stay in a certain current so that the do not bottom out on the dirt on low tides. The last thing I learned was that the bouwees in the water over there are maintained by that docks harbor mastwr and when exating the green light is on the right side and when coming in the red light is on the right

fiscal cliff response

President Obama says he won’t agree to spending cuts in return for Republicans’ raising the debt ceiling.The debt ceiling ought to be raised because nobody has a plan to eliminate the deficit immediately, and there is no popular support for doing what that would take.Third, the Federal Reserve should pledge to hold nominal income growth steady, since that would counteract any shock to consumer confidence.As Russ K has said in the past, the danger posed by the fiscal cliff is not solely whether we go over the side or not – it also matters what shape our economy is in before the plunge. Last week’s jobs report may have seemed like good news for the latter, but unfortunately a closer look at the numbers revealed a mixed. The Indy Star reported that a recent poll showed Hoosiers were evenly split on the issue of marriage with 45 percent favoring same sex marriage and 45 percent opposing it. That is a big step forward for this state.it conducted my research by using google and the tools on it.i searched it by the last hour and i have found articles that have showed me the recent fiscal cliffs.the most helpful was using the most resent knowlege of the fiscal cliffs and showed me republicans and democratics. the urls i used was http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130111/EDIT05/301119988/1147/EDIT07

http://isharesblog.com/fiscal-cliff-watch?cmp=Broad_Blog_Fiscal%20Cliff&chn=PPC&c=Google&kw=the%20fiscal%20cliff&gclid=CPyl2Iz237QCFeGDQgoduzkA5w

http://indydemocrat.blogspot.com/

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130111/EDIT05/301119988/1147/EDIT07