Just for two weeks, but this is the first time I’m working a wage job!
It’s a job in the warehouse and I’m picking items up, packing things and sending it away, etc.
Physical labour really, and consisting of standing on my feet from 9 am to 6 pm.
My feet have been feeling like they’re on the verge of falling off for the whole week! It’s so tiring!
I know it might sound weird that I am doing what can be considered “simple” physical labour, especially during the summer holidays between my third and fourth year at university.
Because everyone else around me is looking for internships at offices of famous companies, right? And I should be doing that too.
But I think I really needed this.
I don’t have much work experience, and the only few I have were paid per project, so this day-to-day job is really new to me.
As I was going on with my job hunting journey, it was kind of worrying me how I didn’t have “work experience”, especially with how I was only looking into office jobs for the future, thus my perspective of the world and society being very biased and lacking knowledge about what is actually the norm for many people.
And this summer would be the best and last chance I would be able to experience it.
Don’t worry, I also have an internship coming up later.
So yeah! It’s a lot to learn.
Everyone takes on many roles within the company so there simply is a lot to do, but other than that, I have been able to take a look into the local working atmosphere.
It was most interesting to me that everyone at the company used ASL on top of whatever language they spoke- English, Chinese or Thai.
At first, I thought it was because there was quite a large deaf population on the floor, but by the 2nd day I realised that because the machines were really loud and the warehouse is quite big, using sign language was much more efficient communication than yelling at each other.
Also, something new I leant, people use ASL here. American sign language.
I was wondering if there was a Singaporean sign language, or if people used British sign language because the English system in Singapore follows British English, but it was ASL! Interesting.
