The Switch

After my success in losing a potential mentor I didn't have any luck finding another potential mentor. I had known that franchisees were busy because they have tons of things they need to do to make sure that their business is striving or surviving , but I didn't realize how busy they really were. I now know that franchisees are too busy for my taste. I would rather not spend my time away from my future family and friends. Even though I met with my potential franchisee only a few times, yet I could see how she rushed to get her work done just to meet up with her family. Despite after I failed to contact her on time once, she said she would do an interview and when I called to confirm a time she had said she couldn't, simply didn't have the time. At that point I wanted to switch. I wanted to do something where a time schedule would be reasonable and finding a mentor would likely be easier and fun because more people are in the field. I have always wanted to be able to fix things around the house or learn how to fix a car so later on I can do it myself rather than pay someone else. I decided to ask an electrician/industrial technician if he would be my mentor. So now my topic is Electrician/Industrial Technician. I am very pleased with the switch, I will get to use the skills I will learn later on in life and I will get to have fun in the process of learning.

Second Interview Questions

1) My mentor is Alfredo Nunez Sr. and he works at Hino Motors as a maintenance technician.

2) Five questions I plan to ask:

1. Where did you attend college and what classes did you take?
2. What are the advantages/disadvantages to this job? Do you have any benefit packages?
3. What is the most challenging thing you must do in this job?
4. How often do you deal with other people, if you do how do you respond to negative behavior?
5. What safety protocols does your job require or follow?
6. As a maintenance technician what are some tasks and expectations that are required for this field?
7. What are your most and least favorite responsibilities/tasks you have?

Blog 5 Project Reflection and Working EQ

The Pentagon:

1) Not many positive things have happened as a result of this other than my knowledge on franchising expanding a bit more from research and well learning how to be less forgetful. Other than that I've had a few setbacks on attaining mentorship and an interview.

2) Well as I've been reading my research the one that caught my eye was "10 Things Every Franchise Owner Should Know" by Cliff Ennico . This article helped me understand my topic more because I hadn't known how time consuming being a franchisee can be which is a huge thing for me because I want to be with my family in the future.

3) So far what has been working for me has pretty much only been researching, although I did mess up on the second research check, I have noticed that there are alot of website and a few programs that will help out franchisees. That's about it.

4) What hasn't worked was finding a mentor or interviewee. I had lost my mentor and the interviewee said they were unable to do the interview anymore so I have to find another one.

5) A potential EQ is: What is the best way for a franchisee to work with their franchisor to be successful and satisfy both parties?
I haven't found a mentor yet, but my mom has told me she knows a guy who might be able to do it so I am planning to get in touch with him.