PLACEMENTISING – FINAL WEEK

Holy Egg McMuffin, my time on my placement is nearly over. A whole 6 weeks have gone by without me actually realising it. Well I have realised it as my body has severley suffered from sleep deprivation. I look like the following picture right now.

Me on the bus on way to work

However, what I have learnt over the past 6 weeks has been pheonmenal. Not just what I have learnt whilst coding AS3, which is something I have spoken a lot about on this blog, but what I have learnt about how an agency is run by the people who created it.

Everyone in here is really positive about the work they are doing, bar a few moans and groans that you get along the way but that is the same with every workplace you go to and will remain that way until everything is done digitally. i.e. from home.

The people I have worked with have been really supportive of me including in the first week where i was crap. I can;t put it any bluntly but i was strugglying to create HTML newsletters. I know it was because I was nervous and was trying to make a good first impression, but constantly sending emails back to Hayley (who was passing me the work) didn’t do much for my reputation or valuation in the company.

I have learnt from those around me even if they don’t know on how to crack problems and their various ways into relaxing and solving problems. Some like to eat biscuits whilst trying to crack complex PHP puzzles whilst others approach problems from a more systematic angle. It has shown me that there are many way sto get to the solution it just depends on which way is your way.

There are a few people I want to mention as they are the ones who got me this placement and were also so very lenient as they realized that i had a full time job on top of this. To Richard who put up with me turning up late or sometimes not all due to illness, injury or trying to do the worm and failing. Everyone in the office who I have worked with, mainly Hayley, Charles, Rachel and chicken Dan, even though I haven’t been that talkative, due to unprecedented shyness  ,it has been fun working with and around you lot.

When i return to Uni, I will return with more confidence and experience in the Actionscript and in the quality of work that is up to professional standard. The placement has shown me how high the standard of work is in the competitive market with creative ideas being the difference between making it or failing.