Working as a Bike Mechanic

            In society many teenagers are strongly encourage to stay active within many activities including things like sports, school clubs, spiritual organizations, and maintaining a part time job. Many teenagers are very busy and seem to make room for all of these activities while also working. Not only does working give a teen financial support but it also allows them to gain a rich experience within the real world and allows them to gain responsibilities in many ways.

            Many teens in this day and age take jobs that follow a general pathway including those of working at a grocery store, small restaurant, or life guard. Although the majority of the teens today follow through with these types of job applications I however work at a bike store.

            Working at a bike store can sometimes by perceived by an individual as a grimy, boring, and low paying position. These types of stereo types are very false and my job position is about the exact opposite of this description. Although I have only been working at the bike store known as Northtowne Cycling and Fitness in Cedar Rapids for only about six months I have gained large amounts of knowledge and experience in mechanic, sales, finance, and business concepts. As being a bike mechanic I have made my way up through the ranks of this business and continue to learn new things every day that will stay with me for the rest of my life. This job opportunity has given me an outlook on life and the field of work and has strengthened my working ethics along with financial strategies.

            A bike mechanic like me fulfills jobs among the bike store including building bikes, servicing bikes, along with many other misallanious things that help the store and community. Most reviews that I have heard from my friends regarding there employment positions would be dissatisfactory to me. A person working at a grocery store brings in carts and checks peoples groceries as they purchase items for hours on hours at a disappointing minimum wage of 7.25 dollars per hour. Then there are the life guards who believe that their job is just the best thing out there. Although these life guarding positons do pay pretty well at 9 dollars an hour as a starting rate, the large amount of sometimes useless training and financial commitment to gaining a life guarding license can defiantly out way the benefits that life guarding may bring in my point of view. So after talking with friends I am very happy with my position as a bike mechanic as a get paid a even better wage then most teens of my age, obtain better learning experiences rather than transferring and checking  groceries all day, or sitting in a chair watching little kids in the hot sun.