TALK WECOMEONE

Let me start this blog by wishing Bhav a very happy birthday. Getting old now but still young at heart!

I’m into my eighth month of employment at Wecomeone, I say employment but most of the time it doesn’t feel like work. Take today for example, I get to the office and the first thing we do is have breakfast together whilst listening to peaceful music (Tantric Sensuality) for the first hour.

I make it sound like I do no work (Zima would agree with me on that) but the truth is completely different. Here at Wecomeone we use a “work hard play hard” policy, so we do all the fun and relaxing activities, but when we work – we work hard!

When I first started I thought it would be a breeze but my first six months were more like gail force winds. The business world is completely different to what I expected. My communication skills were a little scratchy; my organisational skills were as good as building instructions for an IKEA cupboard, punctuality is something we won’t mention and the long hours are nothing compared to 4/5 hours of lectures a day. Coming from education life to work life was a shock!

I remember when I used to stroll through school and college giving below 70% effort and still remain in the top sets and get top marks. I was average in the sense that I would be late, do homework if I could be bothered, skive when I felt like it (you know you’ve all done it).

I’m lucky I’m at Wecomeone because I received a lot of support, at any other business I would have been out the door before I made my groove in my chair. I’m getting used to it now and I’m enjoying it more than ever but I know one thing for sure education never prepared me for this.

We now have two new interns for this year (Rashyl and Ravi), and I’m sure they’ll also have the same feelings and experiences I’ve had. Actually I think they’ll be a lot of people who have shared my experience or will do, my advice to the latter would be get involved in voluntary projects as soon as possible. Your rewards won’t be money, they’ll be far greater. You’ll have the skills and qualities which employers look for but education doesn’t offer!