When I was young, I really wanted to be a garbage collector, bus driver or a lawyer. I grew up at a local city in South-eastern Nigeria called Onitsha. The sanitary condition over there is horrible. I saw garbage everywhere and there weren’t any safety way to dispose the garbage other than to burn them, which also wasn’t environmental friendly. Having a child’s mentality, I chose this job because I wanted to make everywhere clean and tidy. Another job that caught my interest was being a bus driver. I thought about this job because I had a personal river that drove me and my cousins to school, and I always imagined what it felt like to drive a car. Still today, I have a liking for cars because they look fancy and are well designed. I became
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This past summer, I interned with New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development Agency as an Administrative Assistant to the Director of Fiscal Operation and Special reports. As an assistant, I had to report information on building completion percentages, update spreadsheets that contains both complete and open projects and lastly my supervisor gave me advice on how to act in a workplace. Because this was my first official job. I learned more about behaving at work for example, get to work 15 minutes early, listen to supervisors, take initiatives, be respectful, and conscious of the way I talk to other workers bring in a new idea to the table, be friendly yet respectful and keep a record of everything that is given to me in case the original is missing. The one thing I learned about this experience is that this working environment is super structured and working style is an independent one. Because the agency was huge and interactions was limited, I didn’t talk a lot or built personal relationships with employees because the job required that I stay at my cubicle and get my work done. The high of this experience is that my supervisor was kind to mentor me and I had a chance to enhance my weak skills such as Microsoft Excel (computer skills) and communication skills.
Though I was opportune to enhance my skills, I didn’t like the working environment
This past summer, I interned with New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development Agency as an Administrative Assistant to the Director of Fiscal Operation and Special reports. As an assistant, I had to report information on building completion percentages, update spreadsheets that contains both complete and open projects and lastly my supervisor gave me advice on how to act in a workplace. Because this was my first official job. I learned more about behaving at work for example, get to work 15 minutes early, listen to supervisors, take initiatives, be respectful, and conscious of the way I talk to other workers bring in a new idea to the table, be friendly yet respectful and keep a record of everything that is given to me in case the original is missing. The one thing I learned about this experience is that this working environment is super structured and working style is an independent one. Because the agency was huge and interactions was limited, I didn’t talk a lot or built personal relationships with employees because the job required that I stay at my cubicle and get my work done. The high of this experience is that my supervisor was kind to mentor me and I had a chance to enhance my weak skills such as Microsoft Excel (computer skills) and communication skills.
Though I was opportune to enhance my skills, I didn’t like the working environment