A Week at IGOR

The final day of work experience was probably the hardest yet. Having never worked a nine-to-five day before this week, I was pretty damn tired. 5 days of 8 hours of work (40 hours for those of you not mathematically inclined) really destroyed me. My stamina could do with some improvement.

Anyway, we started Friday pretty nicely, with breakfast at Bocelli Caffe Ristorante on Hutt Street. Quite pleasant, I must say.

After taking our hour for breakfast, we all headed back to the IGOR offices. I took the iPad and headed upstairs to finalise my presentation, while everybody else continued with their work.

Before leaving the office the night before, I’d decided that my presentation, created on Apple’s KeyNote software, was totally sorted out. After taking a night to refresh my brain, I decided that my presentation was really not that good, so I re-wrote it.

In the end, I believe it came the presentation came out quite well, and I think I presented it to a decent standard, considering I didn’t really have enough time to properly rehearse what I was going to say. The presentation focussed on the stuff I’ve told you about here in the blog, and even referred to the blog itself. I talked about all the work I’d done, and what I’d be doing, going forward, which I’ll discuss here in a future post.

After I’d finished presenting, I went back upstairs and finished off the website work I’d been doing. I built a few of the pages, and finally published something, which ended up looking quite nice. A little bit of work still needs to be done there, though.

I think that’s actually what I did for the rest of the day; just burned my way through various pages and facets of the IGOR website. It was a good way to end the week, I think.

Close to the end of the day, I got my feedback from IGOR’s staff. The majority of it was good, which I was happy about, obviously. There was definitely stuff for me to to learn from and improve on, though.

Overall, the week’s been pretty damn good. I learnt a hell of a lot, and did a lot of serious work that I really enjoyed. Work experience at IGOR has definitely taught me a lot about Human Science, and has really made me re-think what I want to do career-wise.

I should really mention that even though this should be the final post, I’m going to continue writing posts for a while. I can’t promise that they’ll be consistent (in quality and quantity), but I can promise that more posts will be up. I’m envisioning some elaborate outpourings of my thoughts, that will question how and what you think.

I doubt they’ll come out like that, though.

- Callum