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What is your favorite project that you've worked on?
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Michelle’s Answer
Hello, Christina !
I have two careers and transitioned between them both and back to my original love career which I obtained my degree in. I have some thoughts that your question has inspired, but I did not work on projects that are in your tags.
One thing that I can say from life experience is that when you are passionate and love a field of work, it ends up that you do not have ONE favorite project. It's the ONE career that is the "favorite" and the work and projects involved are why you chose the career as your favorite. I think that as an actor, I may have done two shows that were not my favorite out of the entire resume. As a social service case manager, two of my standout projects were being the director of a community action bureau in a major city at which I also had a large case load of clients. Of my two previous and current careers, I think that the social service field could be more related to your tags.
Among many favorite projects was when I worked for a HUD program serving homeless individuals. I had one favorite training in this realm and it was a Day of Homeless Simulation. It was held in a very large space, sponsored by a few social service agencies in the community in which I worked as a case manager. Various areas were set up as the welfare office, a police station, an employment office, a pawn shop, etc. We were assigned detailed characters and biographies that we had to assume throughout the day. I learned the most with this experience than any other training I went to (which were many times repetitive).
I also enjoyed whenever our agency would do what was called "Dog and Pony" shows or "Meet and Greets" . These were projects that introduced the community - countywide - to our programs and services. I liked meeting all the community people as well as other social service professionals that would attend. I especially liked speaking about the program that I was coordinating and working on and also speaking about the agency as a whole and what services and programs we offered at that time.
My two stories may be something that a person going into city planning - one of your tags - may benefit from so I wanted to mention them. The good thing to do is to become aware of any possible events, activities or trainings that may be available to you at this current time. I have left some referral links for you below so that you can explore the possibilities of both starting a project or participating in one.
I hope that this is helpful and I wish you all the best moving forward !
YOUTH AND TEEN PROGRAMS IN SEATTLE AT THE Y https://www.seattleymca.org/programs/youthprograms
SEATTLE PARKS AND RECREATION TEEN AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INCLUDING OBTAINING A MENTOR https://www.seattle.gov/parks/learning-and-childcare/teen-programs
SEATTLE YOUNG ENGINEERS https://www.seattleyoungengineers.com/
TEEN PROGRAMS JOBS IN SEATTLE https://www.careerjet.com/teen-programs-jobs/Seattle,-WA
I have two careers and transitioned between them both and back to my original love career which I obtained my degree in. I have some thoughts that your question has inspired, but I did not work on projects that are in your tags.
One thing that I can say from life experience is that when you are passionate and love a field of work, it ends up that you do not have ONE favorite project. It's the ONE career that is the "favorite" and the work and projects involved are why you chose the career as your favorite. I think that as an actor, I may have done two shows that were not my favorite out of the entire resume. As a social service case manager, two of my standout projects were being the director of a community action bureau in a major city at which I also had a large case load of clients. Of my two previous and current careers, I think that the social service field could be more related to your tags.
Among many favorite projects was when I worked for a HUD program serving homeless individuals. I had one favorite training in this realm and it was a Day of Homeless Simulation. It was held in a very large space, sponsored by a few social service agencies in the community in which I worked as a case manager. Various areas were set up as the welfare office, a police station, an employment office, a pawn shop, etc. We were assigned detailed characters and biographies that we had to assume throughout the day. I learned the most with this experience than any other training I went to (which were many times repetitive).
I also enjoyed whenever our agency would do what was called "Dog and Pony" shows or "Meet and Greets" . These were projects that introduced the community - countywide - to our programs and services. I liked meeting all the community people as well as other social service professionals that would attend. I especially liked speaking about the program that I was coordinating and working on and also speaking about the agency as a whole and what services and programs we offered at that time.
My two stories may be something that a person going into city planning - one of your tags - may benefit from so I wanted to mention them. The good thing to do is to become aware of any possible events, activities or trainings that may be available to you at this current time. I have left some referral links for you below so that you can explore the possibilities of both starting a project or participating in one.
I hope that this is helpful and I wish you all the best moving forward !
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Biplab’s Answer
My favorite project (that isn't confidential) was one of my first ones!
It was creating a new website for a customer to handle sales between their warehouses and end customers.
Taught me about basic SDLC concepts such as Design, Develop, Test, Deploy as well as business analysis and project management concepts.
The best part was working with a grateful and collaborative client and feeling like the site we built added real value!
Business requirements gathering workshops with the client business stakeholders to discover the user stories we needed to build for were a fun way to understand our client's business processes and problem solve.
It was creating a new website for a customer to handle sales between their warehouses and end customers.
Taught me about basic SDLC concepts such as Design, Develop, Test, Deploy as well as business analysis and project management concepts.
The best part was working with a grateful and collaborative client and feeling like the site we built added real value!
Business requirements gathering workshops with the client business stakeholders to discover the user stories we needed to build for were a fun way to understand our client's business processes and problem solve.
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