Council-Sponsored Grant Activities: Employment (2019)

Precious is a team player. She enjoys working with others on the job and likes to keep busy. At Red Lobster, she's a second dishwasher, assisting the primary dishwasher in getting dishes, pots and pans ready.

Shelby started a new job at the beginning of the new year in January, working as a dairy department sales associate at Cub Foods. He's detail oriented, keeps a set list of job responsibilities, and much prefers to work independently – a great match for keeping the shelves stocked with daily products and not requiring a lot of communication with customers. He's free to seek out co-workers with questions and is definitely part of a team but not overwhelmed with feeling he needs to engage in a lot of conversation with a lot of different people. He's enjoying steady and far less stressful employment now compared with a seasonal job he had previously with more demands on regularly connecting with customers and co-workers.

Robert had been doing volunteer work as a window washer. He wanted to start out in a paid position doing a job that used a skill that he had and was comfortable performing. At East Side Neighborhood Services, he's cleaning windows but also doing other janitorial tasks, and will be learning additional cleaning tasks with the support of his employer.