Working Time Management Problem Essay

On a daily basis I make phone calls to our subcontractors and owners, I order materials when my boss asks me to, and I organize all documents regarding our work with a non-profit organization. All of these tasks were given to me by my boss, the president of the company. The priority of these tasks depends on the situation we are in at the given moment. When I need to communicate to our subcontractors I will call. When the subcontractors need materials I order them. If I were to fail completing these tasks, materials would not be ordered and the schedule would be pushed back. This would upset my boss and I would find myself in trouble for going against his orders. My company is very small so there is usually no competing priority between …show more content…
My internship is not the best paid so most of the money I am making is going to bills. Luckily I am living at home so meals and rent is not an issue. I got reprimanded for forgetting framing terms. I definitely needed to review those terms every once in a while to no go through the embarrassment of my boss teaching them to me again and pushing the days schedule back. A part of work is eating healthily and getting enough sleep. In the last few months my eating habits have been very unhealthy. We eat out every day, so the options are usually fast food. Sleeping is important but sometimes I stay up late. I realize that is a poor decision every morning when I wake up. An essential part of this internship is the reports we write to our professor. If I could go back I would approach these assignments with greater caution to make sure I made better grades. After an incident with forgetting to put my name on the report I was left with a bitter taste and remorse for not reviewing it further before turning it in.

The semester is going by at an extremely fast pace. To this point the internship has been a complete success in teaching me the construction process for residential