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Introduction to SAE. Read this carefully!. Wanted: Landscape Maintenance worker, Operate a lawn mower and power blower. Need a person who can work with out supervision. Experience required. Call 515-7743. Read this carefully!.
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Read this carefully! Wanted: Landscape Maintenance worker, Operate a lawn mower and power blower. Need a person who can work with out supervision. Experience required. Call 515-7743.
Read this carefully! Vet Assistant needed. Mayflower Animal Hospital needs an experienced individual to work 20 hours a week. Duties including bathing animals, grooming and feeding of animals. Apply in person at 316 Walnut Street.
Read this carefully! Wanted: Dependable person to handle over the counter sales in a busy garden center. Pay is $7.50 an hour. Neat appearance important along with the ability to work with people. Experience in working with plants a must. Call 515-2396 for an interview.
What was the same in all 3 ads? • Each advertisement wanted the person to be experienced. People who have experience have the edge in landing a job. But: • How do you get experience without first having a job? • How do you get a job without first having experience? Job Experience
Gaining Experience!! SAE • Question: • How can you gain experience to get a job (or prepare for college)? • Answer: • Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
Experience So What do you really want to be? Do You Know? What do you need to do to get there in good time?
What is SAE? • Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of class time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.
How Does a SAE Help Me? • Develop skills that can be used in getting a job • Provides the opportunity to make money • Develops skills that can be used in starting you own business • Helps development managementskills
How Does a SAE Help Me...? • Learn record keeping skills • Improves analytical and decision making skills • Teaches responsibility • Provides the opportunity to explore possible careers
How Does a SAE Help Me...? • Develops knowledge and skills that could be helpful in college, as a hobby or for recreation. • Provides the opportunity to win awards: FFA proficiency awards are based on the SAE program. In addition to winning awards, money can be won at regional, state and national levels
How Does a SAE Help Me...? • FFA degrees are partially based on the SAE. You must have a SAE program to advance. • In order to be a state or national officer, you first must have an advanced FFA degree which is partially based on SAE. • Could help the grade in Agriculture class. • Help with your Graduation Project!
Types of SAE • Entrepreneurship • Placement • Research • Experimental • Analytical (Non-Experimental) • Exploratory • Improvement • Supplemental
Entrepreneurship • Start your own business! • Make some money • Keep up with expenses and income • Learn valuable business experience
Placement • Training Agreement (signed by all parties) • A job or volunteer job • Record of work • Hours worked • Income earned
Experimental/Analytical • Conduct an in depth scientific experiment to prove a hypothesis (Experiemental) or to solve a problem (Analytical) • Includes a research paper • Hours journaled
Exploratory • Explore a career and the different jobs it involves • Job shadowing • Date • Activity • Observations • Comments • Hours
Improvement • Must have a plan! • Date Started • Date Completed • Steps involved in the project • Hours and Costs
Supplementary • These are extra hours to fulfill your time commitment to the SAE • Activities that are not related to your SAE • Only last an hour or two • Can count no more than 3 hours • Date • Activities • Hours
All SAE’s Include…. • Journal on AET website • An SAE book with all information completed and appropriate signatures • Project Plan • Presentation of finished project at the end of the semester (2 – 3) minutes.
Financial Terms
Assets • Something Tangible of value that a person owns. • Current: items turned to cash or sold in one year. • Ex. Cash, savings, livestock, plants, etc. • Non-Current: items that have a useful life longer than 1 year. • Ex: land, machines,, perrenials
Liabilites • Means Debts you have! • Current: debts due to be paid this year! • Ex: fertilizer, bills/payments, etc. • Non-Current: items that have a useful life of more than one year! • Ex: Mortgages over a period of time
Net Worth = Equity • Net Worth= total assets – total liabilities • Total Assets= current + non-current assets • Total Liabilities= current + non-current debts
Inventory • An itemized list of things owned by a business with the beginning value and depreciated value • Non-depreciable: items sold in a year • Feed, Supplies, fertilizer, soil • Depreciable: Items with a long useful life, because of age, wear, etc. • Machinery, equipment, etc. • LAND IS NOT DEPRECIABLE