Over the past five weeks I have been thankful for Ernesto, he really helped me with a couple problem horses and taught me a few things that I would never have learned otherwise, Caitlynn, for being so helpful, understanding, and always answering my questions, and Nicole, for showing me what its like to be the boss of not one but three companies and showing me not only her hard work but letting me share in it. This entire experience has been an eye opener and I am thankful I had it before I go off to college and begin my adult life, I have learned a lot of things about business and about horses.
Prompt 2 During my time at Poway Trail Company I have not experienced many setbacks that have truly affected me until I met Sam. Sam is a horse that was left on the property by his original owner. My boss, Nicole, has decided to give him to me as a project horse while I am here. He has absolutely no manners and is extremely rude. Currently I am trying to train using Parelli training but in my personal opinion I am spectacularly failing. He does not care about anything and will not do something he doesn’t want to do. Next week I will be going outside with Nicole to work with him and hopefully overcome his attitude problem. Prompt 3 My high school education has in no way prepared me for working on a horse ranch. Even the administrative work I’ve been doing I learned from a previous office job I had. I am out in the sun all day cleaning stalls, working with horses, learning a new training style and doing whatever else I am asked to do around the office and ranch. My externship has been like a project at HTHI because I am always on a tight schedule. There is no time for messing around because I am working on my own project, a project for my boss, and the summer camps. Time management was something I had to learn fast because unfortunately some teachers like to plan everything out and not leave that up to the students. My internship is with Nicole Stone at her company Poway Equestrian Center, this is not the only name it goes by though, she has many companies under her belt, some of which are just starting out. In the year I have known her she and her companies have grown into amazing things and she has even successfully opened her own non-profit which is aimed to help disadvantaged children become familiar with horses and to help horses in need. If you would like to donate please go to ptcgive.com . While here on internship I am learning what it is like for a successful business women in 2018. She has me helping quite a bit with the upcoming summer camps which I was a part of last year but will unfortunately miss out on the bulk of this summer because of internship ends. Seeing her aspirations, her dream board, her hard work, her caring; has really helped to open my eyes and see a world of possibilities in which people are more educated in equines and able to truly see how amazing horses are. While on internship I was really hoping to gain more ranch experience as well as learn what it takes to be a small business owner (she owns three and a non-profit). Only having been here three days I think it is too early to begin pointing out new things I have learned but I am gaining a ton of experience in office work and ranch work. I am very excited for all the new things I am going to learn this coming month. |