I went to V festvial over the weekend with work, and now I’m shattered. It was a good weekend until we had to leave, just could’nt get all our equipment off the site. No one would help us, and we had to wait about 12 hours to finally get our equipment into our car. Anyways all home and clean now.
At work, I’ve been given a mini project to organise which is quite cool. Its working with mobile so it’s an interesting area to get into. Also good news, I might be staying on part time to while I’m at uni woo!
As of last Tuesday, I am pleased to announce that I am offically allowed to stay at Graphico for the rest of the summer. Apparently everyone loves me, and there were no negative feedback comments, so at least I’m on the right track. This means I don’t have to get a summer job in something I really don’t want to do like stacking shelves or cleaning (been there, done that, it wasn’t nice and it’s time to move on!).
I’m off to T in the Park to do some more moderation on Thursday. I’m so looking forward to it, I just hope it doesn’t rain the whole way through. It’s gone a bit quiet for me in the office at the mo. I mean I have stuff to do, but I’m waiting for so many people to come back to me with bits and pieces, I just don’t know where the day goes. I am starting to think that I would like to become a producer or an account manager, now that I have been exposed to these roles. Before Graphico I was quite interested in design, but I’m far from being the best creative type. I’ll just stick to what I do best, and that’s organising stuff!
Bye for now!
Beginning my third week at my placement company and I got flowers sent to me from my lovely boyfriend for my birthday! I was so embarrassed….but in a good way 🙂
This was the response I got when Amy asked me what date I started work at Graphico. I took it as a compliment, as I’ve made a good enough impression on them and worked long hours for me to fit right into the company. We’ve been so busy, and the hours are just flying by. Last weekend was absolutely fantastic as we went off to the Isle of Wight festival to do some interactive things for a major client of theirs. Don’t know much I can say, but it was so good I can tell you that. To top that, we’re all jetting off to T in the Park in Scotland in July and also doing V Festival in August…told you I was going to have the best summer ever. 🙂
I also realised that I’m learning a lot on the job, and it’s put me at ease that I don’t have to know all the skills when I go into a full time job. Amy said to me that every company that you go to vaires and so you have to learn things thier way. I don’t know if I mentioned but I’m working as a Junior Account Executive, soud very fancy! I should be able to move around the company and shadow a couple of people over a few days, just so I can get the most out of my work experience and see how a company is structured. Sorted!
What a week! I can’t believe a week has gone by already, I suppose the bank holiday hasn’t helped. I’ve been really busy and the time has flown by, which is the way I like it as time goes quicker when you’re having fun, lol! It’s been a good week as I’ve heard most people don’t do much in their first week or so at work placement and I have been quite busy, it feels like I’ve just slotted right into the company.
I was doing admin type stuff today which wasn’t great but Amy apologised and said that I’ll get to do better stuff when they’re not so busy and people can actually sit down with me. Also, they know that I want to move around the company and see what other people do, so it’s all good.
The third day has come and gone, and I have already learnt how to upload new content via XML. A contractor called Chris sat down with me for a little while and taught me XML whilst using it on a real life project, so I was working and learning at the same time. It really helped me because the coding I was doing I could see contextualised changes in the front end side of the site. I feel that I have learnt more over these past couple of days than a month at uni!…well a bit of an exaggeration but I really connected with what I was learning. And it wasn’t as if I was being shown how to do it, I was working together with my demonstrator problem solving the code. Really useful stuff.
Everyone’s working really hard and it’s longer hours than I expected, due to tight deadlines etc, but even I came in early through choice this morning as I wanted to get some things done. Just listening to conversations around the office and in meetings makes me realise how closely the project managing things I have done in uni relate to the industry. It puts my mind at ease anyway and gets me excited to know that I am in the right place and ready to take on anything that comes my way.
Well today I started my work experience at Graphico New Media in Newbury, and despite being 70% excited and 30% nervous, I had a brilliant day. I had a general induction with an operations manager called Simon, and he showed me around the two buildings. I can’t for the life of me remember any of the 80+ names I was introduced to today but I definitely got good vibes from absolutely everyone.
There are three other ladies in the office that I was in, Amy, Donna and Stacey and they all seem up for a laugh and genuinely very friendly. I also sat in on a meeting this afternoon, and listened into everyone’s conversations and just got excited about what was about to come over the next few weeks or so. I had a moment to myself and just thought, my God, I’m actually here, I made it! Yay!
If today is anything to go by then I am going to have a fantastic summer…hopefully possibly more after I graduate, if I can impress them enough 😛
Watch this space…
Right. I’m all for peer assessments being used to shake off the people who are riding along with the success of a group project when they clearly haven’t done a thing, but what about the rest of us? Obviously I have been stung by this, as my efforts in my latest group work this year have blatantly gone unnoticed. In my protest, there is actually nothing I or anyone else for that matter can do about it. So this means, if you have people in your group who detest you on the highest possible level of detestation (is that a word?), and they fail you simply because they hate you, then this is apparently a fine way to mark your work. I suppose on the other side of it, if you are with your best friends and they mark you with 100% and they do similarly to you, then I think then this is the way forward as no one can touch those marks.
If people aren’t going to be honest about giving their peers truthful marks, then I say exploit the system! Don’t let your peers fail their degree; boost their average mark up by giving them 100%, because apparently there is nothing they can do to change it.
Gah, just when I was doing so well.
Rant over.
Well hey ho, the end of the 2nd year is approaching already and it has gone by so quickly as per usual. Just a quick update, the essay that I had written didn’t actually go that badly, I got a first for it! So this year, marks wise has been going very well, especially as things have been so hectic.
In the work placment side of things, I have only applied to one company – which some might say is a very stupid thing to do, but it seems to have paid off. It is the only company I wanted to work for and so I concentrated my efforts on getting in contact with them, and just kept calling them etc until I had luck on my side and managed to get an interview. I’m just waiting for the confirmation letter now and then I’ll be starting on the 29th May. So I’m not quite there just yet, not until I get the letter through the post anyway!
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