Weekly Reflections: Week # 2

This past week, work was a lot easier for me. I have started to learn more about the “day to day” work that I am assigned to do. Each day, most of the work is the same, or very similar. I’ve been asked to do certain tasks each day that I have already learned, and it is nice for me to be able to go right ahead and do it without asking any questions. I find that I don’t do very many different tasks, and therefore my work is much like a job and I have the opportunity to learn my “position”.

I love that each day I go into work, my boss tells me to go fill out an approbation, and without any kind of question, I go right ahead and do it. When I first got to work, I didn’t know how to do anything and I didn’t like the feeling of not being helpful. Now, I feel like I am very useful to the store and I also feel really appreciated by others who work there. It is a good feeling to know what I am doing and what I can do. I pay close attention when my sponsor works on the computer, so in the future, when she asks me to work in excel, I have the ability to do so.

I felt that every job that I completed throughout the week was very necessary for the store. Some of the work I did, were things that the store didn’t always get done because it was time consuming and less important than their day-to-day work. I was put to work in these areas, but really enjoyed it because I knew how helpful it was for them. I usually helped with the work that caused my sponsor or others in the store to become sidetracked from their more important work. If they needed me to run a message to the basement, I will do so in order to save them that extra time so they can continue doing their work.

In the beginning of this week, I got a call from my sponsor asking me about the blog I have online. Apparently, someone in the company found my blog online and unfortunately I had to delete it. The company told me that my blog was okay but that it was unprofessional and that I should probably take it off the website. This was okay with me because it was an interesting learning experience. I never would have thought that there could be a problem with it, but it just showed me how professional some companies are and how much businesses are taken seriously. Basically what I had to do was print my blog from the first week and then delete it completely. From then on, I have still been posting a blog, but have not included the name of the store, or anything related to the store. So far there has been no problems and everything is going just fine, which is good.

This week, I felt as though I benefited that much more than last week. I feel more mature about work, sophisticated, and I take the store very seriously. I have created new friendships with other people who work in the store. I feel that I am more important this week than I was the last week. This is because I have learned more and have the ability to work on my own with less assistance than I needed in the first week. I am really happy about the way work has been going. I have learned a lot and I am also having so much fun! I love the people who work at the store, and so far I am really happy I chose this for my senior project! The highlight of my week, although mentioned in my last posting, was when I got to see Bette Midler!! She is a very famous actress in two of my favorite movies, which are, Hocus Pocus and First Wives Club. This was very exciting for me because she actually turned around and smiled right as I was walking by!