The Dallas Morning News Where I Work Column.

Mar. 25--Name: Karina MacLaren Thompson

Company: Sun & Ski Sports

Location: Grapevine Mills Mall, Grapevine

Title: General manager

Job description: "The sports that we sell are the extreme sports, so we carry outdoor, we carry skates and hockey. We carry bikes, then we also carry snow ski and snowboards in the wintertime. In the spring and summer, we carry water skis and wake boards. Then we carry all of the accessories to go with our sports.

"I basically am in charge of hiring, recruiting, overseeing all of it. That's not to say I do all of it myself, of course. It's my baby, so basically, I have to make sure everything's running according to how it's supposed to be running. It's staying up to date with the products.

"I'm also working with our different vendors to schedule in-store training clinics. We're getting ready to go into our wake board and water ski seasons, so starting next month, we'll have all of our vendors come through and teach us about the new boards and the new skis and the different technology that's going into them. All of our employees who work here in our store are pretty much avid users or do sports that we carry."