Meet John

Beautiful Washburn

We Ichabod’s are truly blessed with such a beautiful campus of Washburn University. A facility like this requires a lot of maintenance, which leads to a need of a lot of staff member. I wonder how many of us do know how many of them, who actually works hard to keep our campus this neat, clean and beautiful for us.

John Jirik on duty

 Here today I will introduce you guys with one of them who is been serving us for last six month. John Jirik, who has lived most of his life here in Topeka is a Ground Keeper at Washburn University. He works here full time. His highest level of education is, he graduated high school. He likes staying happy and being positive all the time. When he manage to pick up the ground full of dry leaves and makes it look sharp again he feels he reached his goal for the day. He is a music lover, he listens to his Progressive Rock music through his headphone during work and turns it up when he goes home. He seems to be a really chill person, he waves at every single car passes by. I asked him, do all of them wave you back? He said most of them does and the ones does not, he feels sorry for them. Overall he likes his job, because that’s what he has done for most of his life. However, his least favorite thing on his job is picking up trash because he said there is trashcan everywhere for a reason, still he does not mind doing it. Compliments makes him happy and encourages him to keep going and do better. Jirik mentioned they are provided with the best equipment and machineries by the university. He is well paid also for what he does.

My selfie with John

John is playing a very important role around us is what I think. If people like him quit doing there their job, guess who have to take care of all this?