It's an annual event that sees over 200,000 students across the country take part, and close to 100 students from a local school joined in.
The annual Take Your Kids to Work Day on November 3 saw Grade 9 students from Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) head off to workplaces around the region in the company of their parents, guardians, or family friends.
Among those students who went to work last week, were Austin Kemper and Josh Tameling. They ended up at JayDee Agtech, a farm machinery dealer in Humboldt, where Tameling's dad, Calvin works. The Tamelings also farm.
The two boys spent the day working on machinery, including helping put together a swather newly arrived at the dealership.
Kemper's dad is a full-time farmer and Austin works on the farm alongside his father. This was a different perspective on industry for Austin.
"This lets us learn how the work force is," said Austin. "And it lets us explore new jobs."
Austin says he is going to farm like his dad, but Josh wasn't sure what his plans for the future are yet.
Josh agreed that the day let them see a different side of the working world.
"I think it's a good experience for us," Josh said.
"I think they can learn something (from the experience)," said Calvin.
Three students, Ashley Salikin, Brodie Brown and Matthew Ortman, spent their day at St. Mary's Villa.
All three of the students had fun spending time with the residents of thecare home.
"I like how they appreciate what we do here," said Brown. "It makes us feel important."
"They're pretty fun people in here," said Salikin.
All three went to the Villa because their mothers work at there.
"My mom asked me to come (to the Villa) and I said yeah," said Ortman.
Salikin is considering a job in the health field and thought spending the day at the Villa would give her some experience.
"It (also) gives me an idea of why my mom comes home (tired)," said Salikin.
All three also like doing things to give back to people, so the Villa seemed like the perfect place to spend the day.
"I like volunteering and helping people," said Brown.
Although most students visited a place where one of their parents worked, Micheal Fogen decided to spend his day at Modern Meat with his grandfather, Mervin Bay.
"I wanted to see what my Grandpa did and why he liked it so much," said Fogen.
Fogen enjoyed learning new things at the butcher shop and his grandpa enjoyed spending the day with him.
"I was happy he wanted to see what I do," said Bay.
Take Your Kids to Work Day focuses on providing hands-on experience in a variety of workplaces to students to assist them in finding a career.
