Interview with Kanyon, Intern

Kanyon has been a wonderful addition to our high school internship program. He has a passion for building, welding, and manufacturing. Learn more about Kanyon through the interview below.

Interviewer: So first what’s your name and grade?

Kanyon: Kanyon Fisher. I’m a senior at Manville High School.

Interviewer: Tell me a little bit about yourself.

Kanyon: My background?

Interviewer: Hobbies, interests.

Kanyon: I rodeo. I also picked up a second job working for my father, working construction and bailing hay.

Interviewer: Are those the only two jobs you’ve had other than working with us?

Kanyon: No. Sorry.

Interviewer: What else have you done?

Kanyon: I worked for Pat Sims, and I worked at MC cattle company, plus I started my own kind of business, at work building fence. First small ranches and farmers around here.

Interviewer: Is the fence that you’re building out of wood or metal? Or combination of both?

Kanyon: We work with barbwire mostly and I’ve gotten a couple of pipe jobs, making pipe fences.

Interviewer: Okay. What led you to enroll in the manufacturing classes at JBH?

Kanyon: Because I like welding and they gave me an opportunity to get out in a workforce straight out of high school with some of my college already done.

Interviewer: And which classes are you taking here?

Kanyon: I’m taking welding. I took my welding one my sophomore year, welding two my junior year, and now I’m taking practicum.

Interviewer: Okay. What do you enjoy most about manufacturing?

Kanyon: I like to weld. I like being there. I like basically building stuff.

Interviewer: Enjoyment of using your hands.

Kanyon: Yes sir.

Interviewer: When did you realize that you had an interest in welding and manufacturing?

Kanyon: When I was little and my father made me because he had surgery on his arm and since I was the oldest and we had fence needing built, he basically said, you’re the one that’s going to have to run the welding machine. So, when I struck that up the first time, I loved it.

Interviewer: How old were you when you first welded?

Kanyon: About 11 or 12.

Interviewer: Okay. After high school, do you plan on doing trade school or college?

Kanyon: Oh, going union, I’m going to my grandfather was Union, he’s part of the pipe fitter’s union. So, he’s going to get me, we’re going to union hall, pay my $15, and then to be union, get my union membership, then take their classes so I can get, so they help me find a job.

Interviewer: Okay. Then after you’re done with school, what type of work do you see yourself doing?

Kanyon: First I want to do either manufacturing fab work or pipe welding pipe, pipeline, plants if I have to.

Interviewer: And what motivates you when you’re in a work environment?

Kanyon: Money.

Interviewer: Money.

Kanyon: Money, knowing I can do a good job. Basically, doing something that I truly love. Building and welding.

Interviewer: Okay. Well that’s all the questions that I had. Is there anything else specific about yourself you’d like to say?

Kanyon: I really want to, even though I’m going to do my first part, I want to go and get my certs for, to become a welding inspector and I want to make good money, travel. I love to travel and be a welding inspector.

Interviewer: All right, well that’s a good career path to take. It’s a lot of hard work, but it’ll definitely pay off.