{"id":199,"date":"2017-10-26T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/?p=199"},"modified":"2024-10-08T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:35:49","slug":"student-staff-spotlight-on-ian-berg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/2017\/10\/student-staff-spotlight-on-ian-berg\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Staff Spotlight on Ian Berg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ian Berg is known around the Rec Center as the \u201cPro-Shop Guru\u201d, he knows the Pro-Shop as well as the back of his hand if not better. He has memorized all product prices as well as all the details. \u201cWonderful Student Manager, wealth of knowledge. Great problem solver, our go to to fix anything\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessie Bayer. With five years in the business, Ian tells us a little bit more about how he got here and what he does.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>When and how did you become a part of the REC staff?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I began at the start of my junior year of high school, so this is my fifth year here. I started back when reception and fitness were combined , I was in reception and CSS for the first two years and then I trained up to Pro-Shop for another two years, and starting this year I am Lead Staff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a normal workday for you at the Rec?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guess it really depends on what I\u2019m doing, since I can be Pro-Shop informal or just on Lead Staff shift, every day is a little different. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think this job is preparing you for your future and career? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I think so, I think it\u2019s helped me be a little bit more outgoing. It\u2019s made it easier for me to talk to people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a student manager here at the Rec, what\u2019s a piece of advice you\u2019d give students seeking your position?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be ready to help out in any way you\u2019re asked and be flexible with what you\u2019re asked to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Dania Puente<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Berg is known around the Rec Center as the \u201cPro-Shop Guru\u201d, he knows the Pro-Shop as well as the back of his hand if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2263,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rec-center","category-rec-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/recsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}