To be outstanding in "your" field, you may need to first be outstanding in "a" field. Our intern Heidi Paxson tells us how a local summer job is giving some students lessons of hard work.
Suter's Farm is doing more than preparing fresh produce for the community, it is teaching students what it means to be a good person and a hard worker.
There are about 45 workers throughout the summer that handpick corn and other produce every morning to be sold at the little red barns that you have probably seen in the area.
One of those workers is Landon Cluts, who has worked at the farm for 10 years. Landon used his hard earned money to pay for college, and in the fall, he will be using it to start medical school.
"Every day I'm always ready to go because we always have such a fun time and I knew that I need to work hard to get where I wanted to be and this is certainly the place to learn how to do that," says Cluts.
Another hard worker using this job to get through school is Sarah Schroeder who has been working at Suter's since 2012. Sarah says that in her years on the farm, she has learned communication skills, responsibility, and confidence.
"It does help you learn hard work and responsibility getting up at 5:00 a.m. is something else. It also helped me to become more confident in myself," says Schroeder.
Tom Suter who owns the farm, sees that this job is more than a part-time opportunity for his workers, it's a chance to prepare students for the real world.
"It teaches them a good work ethic that if they can handle the hard work that they have out on the farm, they can handle anything else that an outside job would throw at them," says Suter.
On and off the farm, Suter's Farm is preparing local youth for a successful future full of hard work and personal growth through lessons that will last a lifetime.
