Day 1
Day 1 was probably the hardest day that I’ll face this whole week, mainly because I had no idea what I was doing. I was really just winging it the whole time, and trying to find my feet, basically.
The day started with me just filling in some paperwork for school, regarding work experience. Why the school insists on giving us paperwork to do on work experience is beyond me. That’s hardly the best way to prepare us for what work is going to be. It’s like, they try to make us feel like we’re actually in the workplace, but they just can’t let go enough for us to actually be immersed, and to think “Wow, this what work is actually like”, but I won’t rant on.
Shortly after I arrived, my boss arrived, and I was taken upstairs and given my first task. I had to design a layout, and fill out a tonne of information for a portion of IGOR‘s website. It’s harder than it sounds, let me tell you, especially when you haven’t had much experience in website design, or Human Science.
I spent a large portion of the day on this page, gathering relevant information and links, and dumping them all, making a note (everybody should have a notepad and pen with them at all times during work experience) to organise the massive wall of links and text into seperate sections, something that ended up needing to be done, anyway, so hooray for initiative.
After spending a while on that, I went down and helped out with some Admin jobs. Binding, laminating, that sort of thing. Nothing that requires elaboration, because I’m sure you don’t find it that exciting.
Shortly after that, I ended up in the city with my boss buying Apple computers and an iPad. For any of you with a small business, you should probably buy an iPad. It makes you look innovative, and modern, even if you don’t use it for anything. Just make sure people see it if they come into your office.
That was day one. I learnt a fair bit about the difference between Human Science and Psychology, and also how to properly structure a good webpage to draw people into reading and taking interest in your company or brand.
Work experience is harder than I thought it was going to be, but that’s a veeeeeeeeeeery good thing, because it’s also incredibly engaging. I’d rather be doing what I’m doing now than any other work experience placement.
- Callum
