Location
Utility Board Shop (Covina Location)
What I've been doing
I have been working at the skate shop bascially like any other employee there, except, I don't get paid for it. It's all volenteer hours. And what I've been doing is mostly working downstairs where all the shoes are, and I go through and sort all their stock of shoes be first, brand, then stlye, then color, then size. And they all have to be in numerical order. Also, when I am upstairs, I am either stocking the place, meaning opening boxes of new product, and putting them on the racks, or I am, going to the customers and seeing of they need help with anything, and helping them to the best of my ablitly of they do.
Most important thing I've learned
What I have learned most from all this is that working in skateboarding isn't like working other jobs, it seems like a family at the work place. Being there at least 4 hours a day, is just being around other dudes that skate that I can relate with, even the customers that come in, you can just talk to them like a friend. And because it's a skate shop, the topic of skateboarding is being thrown around the 24/7 (well not really 24/7 because it does close, but you get the point). And since people are always on that topic, I learn new things every time I go in there, whether it's news in skateboarding, tips on how to skate, or little secrets peoples have to fix up a board, like using the shavings of the griptape after you have pealed it off, to sand down the grip on your board because new grip can be very sticky and wear out shoes very fast. Things like this is what I learn in the shop.
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