Service Learning Reflection

Literal
10-9-2011 10 hours
1-19-2011 10 hours
3-13-2011 10 hours
3-18-2011 10 hours5-14-2011 10 hours• Charlie Moreno 626-375-2728 (best time to call around 12pm) 


During my stay there I helped move the orders around, compile them, take flowers from customers and wrap them up and load them up into their cars/trucks.

Interpretive
The most intensive part of what i did was simply going in at 11 o'clock at night and working till 12:00 on 2 hours of sleep, that drained me particularly but everyone else at the market were disciplined with their schedules. I was part of the process, as flowers came in, they were unloaded, set, then distributed among the sellers and customers. This is a business, but not a retail business, a wholesale one, everything had to be on time, in condition since their were so many orders to fill it took efficiency to get through it all. Simply understanding the commitment you need to put into a business is the first step, because you don't have anyone above you to take control, you need to watch yourself, its your own bread and butter, learning this I know now I would not want to operate a private business


Applied
Working at the Mellano & Co flower market helped me come to my best answer because although I was there, there seemed to be very little differences within all the wholesalers wares and pricing, making me believe that as long as they were being supplied with enough different flowers at good enough health then they were good, because the market cannot operate without the farms sending in the flowers everyday, however, the reverse is possible, thus a knowledge of the differential traits of flowers is best because that allows you the ability to switch between the successful growing of several varieties of flowers, opening up a bigger market for you, creating a better revenue while wholesale floriculturists are only to use what they have in stock and what they have being shipped to them