Aside from the mundane things in life like these, I watched Undercover Boss on channel 5 and it's gotta be the highlight of today's waste-my-life-away day. Basically a high ranking personnel i.e. CEO of a large company heads down to the front line, and works side by side with entry level staff performing job roles like cleaning/store-checking/maintenance/delivery/logistics etc. In Econs, we learnt that with huge companies that reap large economies of scale, the drawback is that the top management level is always very far away from the front line in terms of feedback and support. Half the time, these 2 don't ever associate with each other and have zero idea of what's happening at either side.
In this program, they aim to eliminate that by having the CEO take on the undercover job and it all rolls along. Getting the first hand information and knowledge of what's happening is crucial especially when running a business. Customers' needs are of utmost importance, because they are the ones who drives the business.
Which brings me back to my working experience now. I am very blessed to have been given such opportunities to rotate in various departments to try my hands on things I've never done before. This idea of rotating in various departments is not new, many companies do it for undergrads internships as well as for freshgraduates to give them the big picture of how the company functions. I've had my opportunity coming earlier than usual even before I've started the undergrad experience.
The most recent experience I've had in the past week is running and managing my own project, both in terms of dealing with client's expectations and meeting his needs, while coordinating with suppliers and contractors to perform the job on schedule. After executing this, I have to be there to monitor the job being done. Sounds like much of a work for a 19 year old? It definitely is. I talked to bosses offering their services to me, to workers and their supervisors doing the job itself, and then to my client as well as reporting to my direct supervisor and bosses in the office. Having some responsibilities in accounts side also gave me a better idea of dealing with payments and keeping the project healthy in terms of profit margin.
The most rewarding part of it all, is seeing everything running so smoothly at work and people getting an outright shock expression all over their faces knowing my age. I've never felt so involved and clear about the work that I'm doing, ever. This has really been the most well spent holidays of my life.
Like what Chris Sharma said:
Climbing is this ever evolving thing, and although it really is about the goal and succeeding and getting to the top, at the same time it's a never-ending cycle of finding something that you're really motivated on, obsessing over it, and then once you get to the top, celebrating for a little while and then moving on to the next thing.
And of course, looking forward to lessening the work load once my project is done and moving on to climbing.
It has been such a journey at work. July is coming, making big decisions for entrance to my preferred Uni, and starting on the next thing in life. I wonder where I get all this inspiration from.
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