August 8-10.
During these days, I was building and race-prepping an indoor clay track for remote controlled vehicles. My duties included cleaning restroom facilities, maintaining the "pit" area for the drivers, breaking down and tilling the previous layout, building and packing down the new layout and finally prepping it for raceday. Throughout these three days, I would arrive when the store was open @ 11:00 and would stay until closing at 9:00 pm. This brought me to a total of 30 hours of mentorship hours.
Contact info: Tony the owner of Tony's Hobbies and Toys (626) 337-3000
Questions raised about the experience:
Does building a recreational racetrack increase sales in the hobby shop?
Will the addition of the racing facility rake in more customers and business?
What are neccesary skills you need to develop in order to become a sponsored rc car driver?
How long will it take to become a 100% sponsored driver?
From this experience, I learned how to properly tear down and build a track layout for remote controlled racing. By learning how to do this, if I ever decide that I would like to open up a hobby shop of my own, I would know how to bring in more customers and set my store apart from other hobby shops in the area. On the other hand if I decided that I wanted to race professionally, I would take what I learned from working with the other people that were sponsored drivers and apply it.
This will help me decide whether I would like to do my senior project on how to manage a hobby shop or how to become a professional/sponsored rc car driver. I'm glad that I have this experience under my belt.
