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NICK CHARNEY
location , types of jobs
540 18th st, Brandon, mb
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My work experiences

 During my 2 weeks their I learned on how Mr. Copeland (the

teacher)gave me things to do while I was there at Earl Oxford. He
would let me help students work on their cars that they were
painting and putting the axels and wheels on the cars for the
racing. Mr. Copeland let me using some of the machines to use for
the cars, I used the drill press as one of he machines I used.
 My strengths and weaknesses
my strengths were I knew how to use of a lot of the machines at Earl
Oxford and I didn’t have that many weaknesses
Week 2

 Monday – the students were still working on their cars as oi would be

walking around and seeing of any off the students needed help

 Tuesday – Mr. Copeland led me through the right way of how to do the
right work on the cars
 Wednesday – during the last week I was their the students were finishing
up on their cars and I was still helping them

 Thursday – I was their on short notice and during I was their I gained
some experience on how Mr. Copeland does his job

 Friday – I wasn’t their cause I had no school

History of cardinal signs

 Cardinal signs began on march 1st, 1970 at the location of 940

Princess Ave of Brandon Manitoba. 3 ½ years of the location of
October 1st 1974. as they expanded their manufacturer with the
gerber sign maker around 1979. they were the firs ship in western
Canada to move in to the computerized sign manufacturing. Their
were many growing pains over the years. They soon outgrew that
location and November 1, 1986 they purchased the present
location which is 10,000 square feet of building on 3 ½ acres of land.
Location

 335 Park Avenue East, Brandon, MB R7A 7A4

 Hours opens 9-5

Week 2 placement

 Monday I got a tour of cardinal signs by one of the workers tony who I was with for
the 2 weeks I was there for. If he was busy I would be with another worker learning
their job.

 Tuesday helping tony with bending the metal for preparation of the signs and putting
in the ribbons and using the metal shear cutter for the big pieces of metal

 Wednesday helping tony with bending more metal and cutting more metal for
making the metal signs

 Thursday through out the 2 weeks been helping tony with making the signs so they
would be ready for delivery

 Friday I was able to put leds for lights inside the three metal signs
My work experience

 Through out the weeks I was their for tony led me through the proper
steps and the proper use of every machine we used for the signs
that we were building. The proper conditions and approaches that
helped me was that everyone helped me so I wouldn’t get lost on
what I was doing
Week 3

 Monday watching tony weld some pieces of metal together for the bigger signs

 Tuesday I've been helping another worker putting adhesive lettering on the
pieces of metal and I've been helping the other worker for the past 5 days

 Wednesday I've been helping the other worker on using the adhesive lettering
and going to a dental workplace and attaching lettering to a wall

 Thursday I was still helping the worker on attaching the adhesive lettering to
more pieces of metal

 Friday no school
Week 4

 Monday I was helping another worker on using some sort of glue for
attaching lex an together

 Tuesday acc spend a day

 Wednesday acc spend a day

 Thursday I was helping tony use the drill press on drilling the angle iron
for the attaching it to the sign

 Friday I’ve been watching tony do some cutting with the angle iron
cutter to get them cut
Work experience

 To me it was very different then school. You went to a place that I

used some big machines like the metal shear cutter and the
machine that bended metal and I got to learn about the attaching
adhesive lettering to the pieces of metal. An I’ve been watching a
lot of tony working on the signs and helping him as well.
 My strengths and weaknesses
my strengths were lifting and carrying a lot of metal from one place
to another and my weaknesses were applying the adhesive lettering to
the pieces of metal and I kindve messed up applying one of the metal
More work experience

 The knowledge and skills that I learned was how to do something

right like getting the proper usage on the metal shear cutting and
attaching the ribbons to the metal signs. And getting using the
proper usage of attaching the adhesive lettering to thee pieces of
metal.
 Would I be suited for this kind of work
I think I would be suited for this kind of work because its what I like to
do and I got a lot of help on what was needed to do at cardinal Signs
with the work that I have doing.