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Real-life experience and a behind-the-scenes view are but two benefits for the students who participate in the 21st Theater sustainment Command’s Summer Hire program Wednesday to July 30.
The program, which places local dependents ages 14 to 22 in various clerical or manual labor positions, is an opportunity for these young adults to learn working skills and prepare themselves for the professional challenges ahead. Some students have no idea what they want to be when they finish school and getting involved in the Summer Hire program gives them an idea what being in a work environment is like.
Kaiserslautern High School junior Shanice Ossig-Gibson, 16, is working as a clerk for the 21st TSC’s comptroller budget control office. Ossig-Gibson is learning more about working on computer programs such as Microsoft Excel and lends a hand with various tasks around the office all while earning the standard Summer Hire pay of $5.50 per hour.
Being a summer hire has been an exciting experience for Ossig-Gibson, she said.
“It’s great, because it actually pertains to what I want to do in the future. It’s teaching me a lot of stuff that I never knew, so it’s really good,” she said.
Ossig-Gibson, who plans on joining the military to become a finance officer, also believes the program teaches young people about responsibility, she said.
The students who gave up six weeks of their summer break can earn extra money and learn how to function in a work environment with supervisors, directions, set work hours and deadlines.
KHS student Abigail Simons felt anxious about starting her new job at the information communications office at the 21st TSC, she said.
“I was anxious at first to join this program, but now I am learning responsibility and how to work in an office,” said Simons.
