The first Daunting Deadline!

The first week is down and it’s been the most challenging, exhausting, rewarding and fun week. It has also been a learning curve, one that I'm happy to ride along.

On my first day I was extremely nervous to start. Living an hour from my internship, it was daunting working out pubic transport times and stops to make sure I was early. Arriving at the building and catching the elevator to the second level my heart started to race. However as the doors dinged open my nerves disappeared when I seen the receptionist.

The receptionist turned out to be my friend from university who was recently hired and will be making her way up in the organisation to a consultant. Having that familiar face made all the nerves, racing heart and worries disappear.

Throughout the week I was introduced to so many great workers who range in roles from senior account executives, account managers, senior accountants, junior accounts and PR assistants. The atmosphere in the building is great everyone is happy and willing to have a chat, as well as dedicated hard workers.

Having a helpful, friendly team has been a bonus with correcting my writing. I was given the task to change a release for the ASX into a more easy to read article for a newspaper with a deadline of 2 hours. Being my second day I was definitely feeling the nerves. This article wasn’t going to a tutor to mark it was going to a real life paper to be published and that was daunting. However every one was extremely helpful with improvements and encouraging with what I had produced.

Although the article was still edited and cut down by my colleague, he said it was a great first go. Following this my colleague sent me an article a day to do for three days and with each one improving, by the last one i wrote there barely any editing or changes were made. Practice makes perfect!

I am looking forward to the next week and improving my skills. I can’t wait to see what is in store for next week after this very busy and super fun week. 

Chelsea :)