Job Shadowing

My job shadowing was pretty cool. I shadowed my cousin, a loan officer. A loan officer is someone who sells people loans. So when you want to buy a house you have to get your loan approved by a loan officer.I think my experience might have been a little unique because I knew what and who exactly was going on. Andy, my cousin, has been a loan officer for almost 10 years so I knew what he did by now pretty well and obviously I knew him because he was my cousin. I went in and first watched what he mostly does, the boring stuff as he calls it. He had to enter in peoples information in to the computer and figure out whether or not they had a shot at getting the loan approved. That part was pretty boring, I mean how interesting can it be to watch someone type into the computer. Some of the other stuff he did was a few sales calls, which were cool, but again it wasn't amazing hearing only one side of the conversation. One part that was kind cool was when he had to deny someones loan. It was interesting to see how he handled the person and ended up giving them hope they could eventually get the loan done. We went out to lunch at Brickhouse and that was delicious of course. After lunch Andy really had to do some work so I sat around and talked with him for a while before I eventually just left. Job shadowing was pretty cool and informative though I still don't know if I want to do Finance or Engineering.