• Ok, I'm a freshman

    2008-06-16

    Today is my first day to work as an intern in the China Merchant Bank. I arrived at the bank early, filling an application form, and then waited to be assigned some work. I have to admit that it was a little awkward.

    My instructor is a lady about 30 years old, at first, I don't feel she's a kind person, because she hardly talked to me, just chatting around with her colleagues. Then I can't stand being ignored, I asked her to give me some work in a friendly way because I know I'm an intern which means I have no right to criticize anybody. She pretended to be very nice to me, always smiling, but I know she didn't take me seriously! Later, she asked one of her subordinate Miss fu to assign me some easy work. Miss fu is a bit kinder than that lady, and she introduced me some financial products of the bank, and then taught me how to make a phone call aimed at pursuing clients to buy those financial products. I have related experience in making phone calls to clients before, so it's no big deal for me and I can handle it definitely! However, the demerit is that I couldn't learn much from it becuase it's a very easy job which means no skills involved. For me, it has no difference from killing the time. But I can't make any change because I'm still a freshman there. I have to be modest, humble and always be ready to consult somebody. I have no much work today and most of the time, I didn't know what to do and what to say, so I was just watching them and sitting on the chair and fingering out those stupid financial products. The achievenment I've made today is that I made several phone calls and I still don't know whether those guys will buy the financial products.

    I've no idea what tomorrow will be. It is said that tomorrow is another day, well, I really hope so.