One Week Job Page #3

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Looking after the family

is a full-time job,

and before you know it,

you reach retirement.

I really admire

that my dad put us

before himself,

and it's something

I'm really grateful for.

Waking up this morning,

I was just thinking...

oh, like, another morning,

come on, Sean,

get going, get engaged,

and... uh, it can be

quite tiring,

because day after day

having to get your game on...

routines can be nice too.

With me this afternoon,

you will be hearing a lot

from him this week,

is Sean Aiken.

He's the man who's doing

one week jobs

for the entire year.

Sean, thus far, how was

your week been at Dave?

I know it's early,

it's only Tuesday, but so far...

It is, it is early in the week,

but so far it's been awesome!

When I was a little kid,

I didn't like

being alone in the dark,

so my dad got me

this little clock radio,

and the idea of somebody

being there

and entertaining you

just struck me from the time

I was about five years old,

so I knew I always wanted

to do this.

Since you are trying to find out

what you want to do

with your life,

what's really at the top so far?

Is it yoga instructor?

Radio DJ.

Radio DJ. He's good.

The whole key is to make it

as conversational as possible.

You're talking to one person,

that's it

when you're doing your thing.

Dave weather brought to you

by Staples Business Depot...

I think that the most important

message for you

is to make contacts,

call people up,

go out for coffee,

go out for lunch...

that's how you get a job,

not so much

putting in the resume.

You got a million people

throwing in a resume someplace,

but what you have to do

is create a personal

relationship with somebody,

and that's going to get you

where you want to go.

Currently 16 degrees,

tomorrow we have clouds.

So I just finished my first

little, uh, stint on the radio

with Dave FM.

I think it went pretty well.

Talked about the job

and everything,

and it makes me wonder what

I'm going to be talking about

for the rest of the week.

I don't know how

these Radio DJs do it.

It seems like they always

have something to talk about,

some news going on,

and there's never dead air.

...with a chance of showers,

and it's going to be 27.

Nice work, nice work!

All right! Okay! Yeah! Whoo!

After Trois-Pistoles,

I went home to Toronto,

and I didn't really know

what was going to happen

with Sean and I.

We both experienced

some pretty intense emotions

in Trois-Pistoles,

and then the first weekend

that I was home,

I got a phone call from Sean,

and he told me

he was going to come

and visit me that weekend.

He hitchhiked to Toronto,

and I was even more

smitten with him.

No guy has ever hitchhiked

halfway across the country

for me before,

and that's pretty awesome.

So, since Trois-Pistoles,

me and Danna have decided

to try and make it work...

Um, I'm just not sure how

exactly that's going to happen,

and how

we're going to make it work.

I'm really happy.

I feel like it's been forever,

but it's only been a week,

and I definitely realize

how much patience

everything's going to take.

Sean had said to me,

"I have no idea what's going to

happen over the next year,

but this is worth seeing

what happens

with this relationship."

This week I'm working

with New Tribe.

It's a tattoo and piercing place

down here in downtown Toronto.

Now it's Monday morning.

Time to start a new job,

start off fresh over,

and meet a bunch of new people.

Hi, I'm Johnny Tribe.

I'm the head piercer here.

My name is Glenny

and I'm a tattooer in Toronto.

Hello, my name's Joey,

and my job title here

is the shop assistant,

or the...

this may get bleeped...

but shop b*tch.

I was a young teenager when I

first started getting tattooed.

I thought it was really bad-ass

and then I was like...

"Oh, that would be

such a cool job,"

but I never really thought

it would be a reality.

I had a friend of mine that had

a small shop and he said,

"Do you want to come

answer the phones?"

I started answering the phones,

tried piercing,

found out

I was pretty good at it.

Done, there you are.

We saw a nose piercing...

we saw a tongue piercing,

and we also saw

a nipple piercing,

which all of them

seemed like they hurt.

Seeing the needles

kind of go in,

especially the tongue,

was like...

It was kind of intense.

It was like... ah.

Tongue back in.

It's good.

It keeps me young.

I'm 42... I'm 41 years old,

so it's always fresh every day.

See all this? Clean it.

Cool.

I guess I'm just finding it

difficult

to really feel like

I'm actually contributing

to the company.

I feel like dead weight

a little bit, you know...

like I'm not actually making

a meaningful contribution.

I guess that might be

a limitation

of the one-week job project

in technical jobs

such as this, you know...

being a tattooist

or a piercer

where it does take

that specific skill set,

which in one week is

kind of impossible to develop.

On one hand,

there's an artistic element

involved

when someone's, like,

"Draw me a mermaid."

But then when you go

to do the tattoo,

to actually execute it,

there's nothing artistic

whatsoever about it,

so you might as well be welding.

Until next week.

Sean was about a quarter

of the way through the project

and I called him up and I said,

"Hey, Sean, I quit my job."

The first thing he said was,

"Hey, you should

come out on the road."

I told him that would be

an interesting idea,

but I would have to run it

by my wife, Karen.

No, I wasn't happy at all

about it initially.

We had just gotten married,

so it would have been difficult

starting off

this new branch of our lives

without him there.

I have known lan

since elementary school.

We met in Grade 4.

In junior high, he challenged me

to a game of ping-pong.

He said that

he was better than I was,

and I said,

"Let's have a match."

And we played, and I won.

He beat me, quite badly.

And slowly after that,

we became better friends.

If you know me and lan,

you know we really share

a special kind of friendship

and that, you know, not so many

are lucky to have,

and so it's something

I'm really grateful for.

Sean and lan have

such a special relationship.

I was worried about

losing something to Sean.

There was still a long time

in the project

till it was complete,

and so I asked Karen,

"Okay, I'm just going to go

on the road for 2 weeks..."

just a taste of the experiences

that Sean was having

on the road,

and then I was going

to come home.

I'd like to think

that we all need to accomplish

something every day.

We need to have a reason

to get out of bed,

so understanding yourself

and your own personal interests

is paramount

to your future happiness.

Unfortunately,

this is going to be

his last stop

on his journey,

because he'll never want

to leave this place.

Today, this morning I was

working on the production line,

so once the bottles

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