Hello virtual world, I am back! Apologies for the hiatus in past 2-3 months.
Working world has been kind. I am blessed with helpful teammates that made my inititation into the team a comfy one. I am also blessed with a good boss, one that is understanding and encouraging. And also pretty fun colleagues that I can joke with and learn from.
September was a difficult month, though. Teammates were busy with their work and lacked the spare time to teach me the workings of our job scope. Being a fresh grad, I was raring to go, wanting to do real work, and really make a contribution. The slowness in that dull month demoralised me a little (ok not that little) as I struggled with the lack of opportunities to do real work, to prove my worth.
October came and I was suddenly given quite a large workload. I was happy and tried to do it to the best I could. Committed several mistakes that could have been avoided, did some good work, some mediocre. The learning was good as I was given a slightly difficult case by my TL which required me to liase with several depts and learnt the ropes on the spot. I look forward to more challenging ones ahead.
Although it has only been 2+ months of working life, I’ve learnt or rediscovered some things about myself.
- I am someone who cant sit around doing nothing.
- I need to feel that my work is valued.
I am sure I will learn more about myself in the months to come.
FYI - the reason why this post is possible at this time of day is because I’m home nursing a sprained ankle that occured because I stupidly ran down the escalator to catch my train and nearly fell and broke my fall at the expense of my ankle and yet still missed the train.
