While growing up in the rural area of Virginia, all there was to do was hang out side and cause ruckus. When I was younger I loved to go out and play in the dirt and destroy things, like any little devious kid does. When I got older and more capable of doing laborious work, I would go out and help my dad with the garden during the spring and summer. Once, I found a passion for growing plants and taking care of them I then started to get into landscaping around the house. My dad being an agriculture teacher at a local middle school really got me involved with the agriculture aspects.
When I got into high school I wasn’t in ag until my sophomore year when we would get to experience all the different parts to the class: wood working, welding, and landscaping. When I was in the landscaping part of it we learned to transplant the plants and a whole variety of things that would take way too long to explain. Then the next year I took landscape design class where we designed a landscape for the athletic fields and then once we were Okayed by the booster club we got to install them. Once I got to experience this I knew right away that I wanted to get into this career once I got out of high school.
I have had experience the last two summers of working in the outdoors landscaping and mowing. Two summers ago I worked for a guy who graduated from tech and now 10 years later owns a medium sized company that has branched out in 5 years and has four different divisions. He has landscape, hardscape, maintenance, and masonry divisions. When I worked with him he taught me a lot of valuable skills in hardscaping. After one summer I learned what I needed to allow for me to go out and build a pavered patio, walkways, paragola’s, and ponds. After I experienced all of this I knew eventually I would love to be able to get into a career of installing those sorts of things.
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That is really cool. I also was one of those kids who played in the dirt. I never got to much into landscaping, but I do help with my parents flower gardens. I also have helped my dad build a planter for my mom. It turned out nicely with two little ponds in it and a huge rock.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up my neighbors had this cute little play house to play in. Well the kids my age were boys and so when their sister (who is 10 years older than me) got tired of playing in the house they destroyed it. The kids found out how to use hand tools by using it on that house and then they discovered the act of digging. So, by the house there was this huge hole and at one point the dug up a pipe! It was after the pipe incident that the hole was filled in.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have just about everything you need for your career. I feel like you know how to do everything already which is awesome.
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