Today was my first official day at work....Yesterday was my induction day and I was shown around the building and I'm still in awe about it all...
The office is filled with clothes and where I work they do all their design and production ihe head office I'm working in so while I'm sitting at my desk I can look up and watch the designers cutting out the material and putting them on dummies and waiting for them to get apporoved and sent out to mass prouction.
The entire office is open plan so its desk after desk of shoes and jeans and jewellery.
You can see the web designer team putting the final touches on the clothes, designers pinning dresses together, the buyers throwing around samples of material they like and calling up suppliers to complain the labels are wrong...and then you have me, sitting at my desk looking at all the numbers....look at how many we sold, how many we ordered and how will actually turn up (you'd b amazed at how you order 300 and when the delivery comes they only give you 200)
Anyway, I finally have my own desk, the person above me has given me all this work to do because before I came she had to do it all herself and theres a bit of a backlog in the administrative parts....Long story short this is what my desk corrently looks like ------>
Okay I may be exxagerating a little bit...but there is atleast 8 ring binders packed withe every of boyswear they are selling this season and since now is sales time all the prices have to be manually changed in the ledgers, base and the spreadsheets, which is my job for the day.
Overall I'm doing okay....I did have the awkward moment in the canteen where I was stood there with my tray off food looking around for someone to recognise and I must admit I felt like the geeky kid on their first day at school. I eventually found the person I was with who had went off to find us a seat. I like the job I just dread the commmute
Lots of love
MLP
Today was my last day....
I've managed to tie up all the loose ends and finished all my work and left it ready for the new intern who will be taking my place.
I didn't have to come in today but I felt it was the right thing to do...Ofcourse coming in today means that I literally walking out of one office and straight into the next. There's no weekend in between to get my head round the change or take a breather before I step into this new job.
It's 10pm and I get the feeling I need to get to bed soon if I'm going to wake up at 7am....this is soo strange it's nowhere near midnight and I'm already getting ready for bed. I'm charging my iPad and my iPod ready for the journey tomorrow. I just got my new headphones in the post and their big chunky ones I absolutely adore because they completely block out all the noise which will be amazing on the tube.
I'm questioning my outfit choice and thinking of going a little bit more understated. I'm going for an all black outfit with heels (which will be in my bag and only come out when I'm around the corner from work) I might be a trainee fashionista but I'm still practical.
So I guess tomorrows the first day of the rest of my life.
I've got a job in the career I want, in anthe fashion industry which I adore....I hope this job is everything I wanted and I come home with a smile on my face.
Tomorrow you'll get all the gossip and an update.
Wish me luck
Lots of love
MLP
Today I've spent the day trying to plan out my wardrobe and all my clothes so I have one less thing to think about this week.
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The practise run to find the fastest route to work was pretty successful not only did i find out how long it will take I even managed to find a way so I wouldn't have to cross the busy traffic intersection.
I'm getting really excited about the job now and feeling anxious about it too.
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My clothes is now ironed and hung up in my wardrobe I've worked out the jewellery and accessories I'm wearing too...all that's left now is to wake up on time and hope I don't forget something. Wish me luck.
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Lots of love
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MLP
It's gone past midnight and I'm watching the MTV music awards and can't believe I've missed most of these films...
I really need to go to the cinemas more often or pop down and rent a DVD for the weekend and catch up on all the films of the ast few year.
This all makes me realise the long list of all the things I want to do.
The list of things want to do just grows and grows
I want to.....
- Go cinemas
- Spend the weekend lost in a book shop
- Learn Spanish
- Go Spain on holiday
- Use my camera more often
- Feature my photos on my blogs
- Write another novella
- Make a feature wall in my room either with pictures or lyrics
- Start my new job
- Join the gym at work
- Study for my theory test
- Book my theory test
- Get a driving licence
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You get what I mean the list is endless and just keeps growing.
Lots of love
MLP
It's not long til I finish my internship and it's beginning to sink in. I'm still struggling to get my head around it because its all been happening soo quickly.
Tomorrow will be my trail run to see how long it will take me to get to work.
Last time I tried to go to the head office I got lost and took twice as long to get there from the station...
It's rather strange how at work I'm pretty organised and plan and schedule really well. Its a complete different thing when it comes to my personal life. I'm messy and running late everyday so I need to try and fix up my life so I'm fully prepared to make the most of what's coming...
Lots of love
MLP
My last day at my current internship will be next Tuesday.
Today was the beginning of the leaving build up. I've only just got home from the first onslaught of leaving does.
Today was drinks with the guys in the office. We all went to the pub next door and had a few drinks. There was the intern who started same time as me but left last month and there was her replacement
What was really strange about the whole experience was that I was sitting in the exact same spot I sat in on my first day.
It's been 3 months and how time goes by...it was like a strange sense of de ja vu.
I'm really excited about the new job and will miss everyone here.
Lots of love
MLP
Today I got a phonecall from the HR team about the assessment day I had on Friday and I got good news...
I got the role as an allocator...Okay okay its not exactly the same as 'The Devil Wears Prada' but I'm going to be the admin assistant for the merchandiser team at River Island.
They said I got 39 out of 41 in the math test which is a 100% considering that I missed out the last 2 questions.
She asked why I was soo surprised about getting in (I honestly didn't believe I would get the role) I told her about how nervous I was and the way I had soo much more to say and felt like I didn't do my best.
Turns out the group assessment went well and I really was just being really hard on myself. I guess I'm just a perfectionist.
I'm so happy I got the job and now I get to fully reap the rewards and benefits I get from this job. I'm already browsing the online store so I can use my 50% off discount...
Starting 10th of July I will have a new job, a new wardrobe a new start.Hopefully (I dont want to jinx it) my life will have a little bit of direction and I can get out of this funk.
Lots of love x
