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As part of a new feature, we’ll be profiling the producers who have donated towards the One Week Job documentary film. Would you like to be featured? First, become a producer!

1. What was the worst job you’ve ever done? What was the best?

Leslie Evans likes rollercoasters. Hates spiders.

The worst job I have ever done is….sorting fruit when I was young, my first job. It was the worst because of all the spiders – I HATE spiders!

The best job would have to be one I didn’t actually get paid for, so maybe that doesn’t count as a job. I was an assistant coach with a community Special Olympics swim team.

I got to wear the craziest hats I could find, and no matter what the day turned out to be, you were always certain there were happy people at the end!

2. What are the types of things you’re passionate about?

Smiles. Laughter. Seeing people accomplish something and the look on their face when they do it. Rollercoasters. Yes, definitely passionate about those!

3. What do you find most interesting about the One Week Job project?

The fact that someone is doing what everyone has always wanted to do. Trying things you would never in your right mind think you would enjoy, but trying anyway.

4. Why did you decide to donate toward the One Week Job film?

I donated to kick up my karma count! Joking!

I donated because if I can’t do it, why not help someone who can, someone who will have the ability to show young people its okay to search, really search, for the things you want to do in life.

It’s hard out there for young people (even older) to find a career they love, there is so much pressure to know from the time you hit high school that someone proving we all don’t know right away what we want to do is something worth giving to.

5. What do you hope to see represented in the film?

I hope to see choice represented. The choice to like or not like a job and celebrate in that choice.

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As part of a new feature, we’re profiling the producers who have donated towards the One Week Job documentary film. Would you like to be featured? First, become a producer!

1. What was the worst job you’ve ever done? What was the best?

The worst job I ever had was a Security Guard position. I took the job with a very reputable company during the Christmas season hoping to get on with one of the large events that would be happening.

Instead they stuck me on graveyard looking after a parking lot of an apartment building located in a sketchy area of New Westminster. I guess they had to start people somewhere. But I feared for my safety most nights and quit after a week.

In that time, there were 3 cars stolen, and I was not suppose to do anything other than be a visible presence, be a witness to anything, and report events that occur at the end of my shift. There was maximum risk with minimal rewards, as the pay was very low.

No wonder most security guards are useless, as they are never fully compensated for the amount of danger that is put upon them.

Furthermore, the job is quite primitive and you do not really do a whole lot other than being present. The bright side of the job is that you are suppose to interact with everyone in the area to try and get a feel of the surroundings and the people to build up a security report of a situation or an event.

Hi loyal readers of One Week Job and new visitors alike! I’m very excited to be able to introduce myself as the newest member of the One Week Job family.

My name is Lindsay Jackson.

For those of you who graduated from high school with Sean, you would probably know me as Bryan Jackson’s little sister.

Now a Documentary film student at Capilano University, I am very pleased to be able to join Ian and Sean in the making of the One Week Job film.

Currently assisting Ian in the task of logging footage, I will also be posting on the website and helping in the post production stage of the film, helping with film festivals and publicity.

If you have any questions or just feel like dropping a line, you can always reach me by email at durden.jackson@gmail.com or just leave me a comment on the page.

Once again, I look forward to the next several months of hard work!

- Lindsay