[0:00]  Probably ‘cause of my dad, but I just always wanted to teach. And I never really knew what subject until high school, which was history, and I just stuck with that after. And then it was just… going to college and doing all of that work after. I’m not really too strict on middle school or high school but, yeah I’m not really too… I don’t care really which grade level. Just somewhere in middle school or high school.  [0:34]  I haven’t heard anything good about the… [laughs] payments or retirement or anything. So I - if I go back here, that would be cool, but it wouldn’t be the first choice. I don’t really have a specific first choice. It would be like an “anything but.” But, I mean, I would like to go maybe like the Cortland area or something like that but… Not Norwich until I know there’s some sort of change. The community’s fine. I’ve been told through multiple people that this district’s known as a depressant district. ‘Cause you, compared to other districts, you have to - you don’t retire as early or quick and it’s not as beneficial to work there overall.  [1:32]  So I went to Potsdam in 2020 and when everything was online, I took - I decided to just take a leap year, when everything was offline. And when I came back, I was like - once I decided to go back to college - I was like, “Yeah, I don’t really want to go to Potsdam. I want to go to Cortland.” ‘Cause that’s where I wanted to go originally but I just waited too long to apply, and again I waited too long to apply to Cortland. [laughs] And Potsdam was the only one left, so I just said, “okay.” [laughs] So I went back to Potsdam.  [2:09]  Cause I didn’t take any, like. college level classes or anything that would prepare someone for college. Like I went to BOCES and did construction at BOCES and carpentry. So I didn’t… I just played both sides: college and… I had a pretty, I guess, decent sized class - like 150. So everyone did know each other, and you knew everyone below you but like, you have to like - If i was in say, 12th grade, I wouldn’t really know a lot about - a lot of 10th graders and 9th graders unless we did like sports or something. But for the most part, everyone knew everyone in the grade.  [2:50]  So, every summer, as I’m technically an intern there, I would show up and I would drive around the city on a tractor and water all the flowerbeds hanging from every post and all the way up to Weiler to Marshall Park. And when I was finished with that, I would go around with a road crew and we would prepare the roads to be paved each year. So that involves making sure all of the sewer drains and… catch basins are level with the road, so that way there’s no dips in the road once they’re done paving. And also black topping any areas that need to be patched or any other areas until everything is paved.  [3:43] When I applied for - to work at the city, I applied for the youth bureau. And since the youth bureau would not start until after school was out and I was back from college before school was out, they asked about the DPW and I said, “sure why not.”  [4:06] I guess the favorite part would just be working outside and having some sort of freedom to do kind of whatever as long as the job gets done, which is always nice. It’s not really hugely strict on how something needs to get done, as long as it gets done the right way. I guess you can do it your own way, as long as it’s got done good. When I got there, I think most of them were locals from what I gathered, but I knew two of the guys who worked there from high school. I didn’t know they worked there but I learned that they worked there, obviously, once I started working. And I met through hearing the last name of someone else that I was - a relative of one of the others who worked there too.