Link internship:"Animas High School offers a unique program to their juniors. Leading Internships for New Knowledge sends juniors on three week internships in the field of their choice. During LINK, students have no regular classes as they spend 30-40 hours a week with mentors in the workplace, learning how to apply their skills outside the classroom. "
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Tabor-rice funeral home:My internship was at Tabor-Rice Funeral Home, a family helping families.
Being a local and family owned business in the Brighton, Ft Lupton, and surrounding areas, they make sure to bring the best service towards you. It's a business that offers and provides professional, personalized funeral services for families that value quality, excellence, and a friendly welcoming environment. Contact Tabor-Rice Funeral Home: Website- http://www.ricemortuaryandcrematory.com/ Main Office- (303) 654-0112 or (303) 659-2321. |
PREPARATION and ANTICIPATION.
This was not my first option for a LINK internship. I previously had an internship up in Boulder with Coastless, a film boutique. After Coastless fell through I reached out to my aunt and uncle who own two businesses, a funeral home, and an event center, both up in Brighton. The event center was a weekend dealio and was not considered my LINK. I am not at all interested in the funeral business but I took on this LINK to reach the requirements to graduate.
Working at Tabor-Rice Funeral Home for three weeks offered me a lot of skills I was not prepared to learn. This internship was easily a gnarly but an enjoyable time. The opportunities and my amazing coworkers gave me a great first taste of the professional working atmosphere. One experience was crazy, I had helped with retrieving two deceased patients from the coroners building and I had to sit in a car in a garage filled with some crazy equipment with two dead bodies casually chilling with me in the car. No one else was there and it defiantly made me come to a decision that this wasn't the happiest place to be right now. So I really am regretting I didn't get that internship with Coastless. I did learn maybe don’t give up on looking around for other available opportunities.
Working at Tabor-Rice Funeral Home for three weeks offered me a lot of skills I was not prepared to learn. This internship was easily a gnarly but an enjoyable time. The opportunities and my amazing coworkers gave me a great first taste of the professional working atmosphere. One experience was crazy, I had helped with retrieving two deceased patients from the coroners building and I had to sit in a car in a garage filled with some crazy equipment with two dead bodies casually chilling with me in the car. No one else was there and it defiantly made me come to a decision that this wasn't the happiest place to be right now. So I really am regretting I didn't get that internship with Coastless. I did learn maybe don’t give up on looking around for other available opportunities.
reflection.
Going into this internship with my aunt and uncles business defiantly had some unexpected experiences. During this internship I learned how to wear many different faces, I had known how to talk to each customer because not everyone was the same. Changing my tone, changing my mannerism and the way I interacted with them was helpful for me because I am possibly the worst person to come to for comfort. Also having experience in a coroners office was pretty gnarly. It turns out I worked with a lot with the dead bodies which was the very, very unexpected part of this whole deal. I can now say I've seen some pretty gnarly gruesome deaths. Some were suicides of various causes, a burn victim, and some victims of gunshots. Working among those clients and working with the families of the deceased opened my eyes of what the funeral business is all about. I went into this internship with embarrassed because I did not want to discuss or even say I have worked with anything with that line of work. I couldn't be any more foolish because it was a fabulous experience to gain traction in the working world. My project which involved sorting and archiving roughly around 400 files has opened my eyes. Being a person who absolutely hates desk jobs and then having one for the time I spent on my project sure was not enjoyable so I had to find stuff to keep me entertained and motivated to do the work. The two offices I was working in had no windows so I decided to draw some mountain filled views on sticky notes and hung them up. Another thing that I found myself doing to keep me entertained and motivated was looking at the cause of death on the death certificates. I am aware that sounds very morbid and disturbing. It was. It was also an eye-opener, I knew suicide was an issue among teens and young adults because those are the stories I am most familiar with, seeing some of the death certificates with a 7-year-old who had committed suicide or a 72-year-old who had was an intense thing to realize. This internship helped a lot with my communication, adaptability, my ability to meet deadlines, mindfulness, and my business professional persona.
My project.
My project took up the whole three weeks and has resulted in me having a annual month long job each year. My main project throughout the three weeks was archiving each file from 2015-2018. The project consisted of me going through thousands of papers which is roughly a total of 400 folders. Going through each client folder and retrieving the death records, final dispositions, and other important state documents, was followed with coping and scanning each individual paper and then moving them to the correct location on the computer. Other things that I worked on and helped with was helping at funerals, helping with removing the deceased from one place to the other, taking finger prints of deceased, helping families, making memorial/funeral videos of loved ones, observing the art of cremation jewelry and more.