{"id":5095,"date":"2014-07-24T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T04:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:07:38","slug":"week-eight-exploring-new-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2014\/07\/24\/week-eight-exploring-new-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Eight: Exploring new roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past week, I\u2019ve realized how doing assignments that I might not feel \u201cqualified\u201d for can benefit me more than I might realize. My organization has been working on a land bank partnership agreement for the past couple of weeks and I\u2019ve been attending the meetings pertaining to the agreement application. I knew nothing about banks or land banks when this project was uncovered and I found myself getting a bit lost during the meetings. I tried to make educated guessed when certain terminology confused me and I walked away still somewhat putting the pieces together.<\/p>\n

I thought that I was being plopped into the meetings in order to learn about what was going on and to provide the small amount of insight that I could into available resources for potential residents looking to buy a home. While this was true, I was unaware that I would have a little bit larger role and that I would end up doing several tasks that made me feel somewhat uncomfortable.\u00a0 Although I definitely do not have a big role in the application process, some smaller application research requirements have fallen into my lap.<\/p>\n

As I said before, I knew nothing about the subject matter and then suddenly I found myself drafted to call banks and research their products. I was thrown into technical language about loans and rehabilitation resources for residents planning to bid on land bank owned properties. Although I wouldn\u2019t have pictured myself working on these types of issues, I’ve learned more than I thought I would’ve within these past weeks and all because I stepped up to the task and out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n

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Meredith and I explored Focus: HOPE’s gorgeous pocket park!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past week, I\u2019ve realized how doing assignments that I might not feel \u201cqualified\u201d for can benefit me more than I might realize. My organization has been working on a land bank partnership agreement for the past couple of weeks and I\u2019ve been attending the meetings pertaining to the agreement application. I knew nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbrp-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16290,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/16290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}