The Intern Adventure 3: First Week

My first four days at work were pretty easy. We just did a lot of data entries and some file sorting. I expected something better, but of course I know that was because we were just starting. To be honest, for the first week, I thought we will be "heavily" trained to do something "complicated" such as bank and book reconciliation or doing different tasks using various accounting and tax software that they have in the office. What we did instead were entering data to the templates and I couldn't remember a single circumstance where I have to critically think over something.

Do you think I'm complaining? Sorry, but no, I find it pretty interesting for the first week! Even if the tasks were not that heavy, I realized that being an accountant is pretty scary. It was taking me forever to enter the data for the December bookkeeping for a particular client because I want to make sure that I won't make a mistake. Numbers are scarier than words; if number 8 should be 9, your financial statements might screw up. I haven't experienced bookkeeping before and I am saying that based on my more than five years of studying accounting.  I am also double checking everything because I am scared that if I entered a wrong data, my boss will be annoyed at me.

But when I leave my desk and walk around the office, I can just see my bosses smiling and helping everyone around them... then I will just laugh at myself because I would realize I was just being a paranoid. I am a person who have a lot of questions but doesn't want to ask for more than two times because she doesn't want to be annoying. I am always hesitating to ask my other colleagues and bosses especially when I see that they are busy on something. I want to change that. I want to be more comfortable seeking for someone's help. I want to believe that it is always okay to ask - and that is one of the things that I want to learn from this whole internship experience.

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I would say that even if all the things that I did for the first four days were not that great, I am still positive and excited for the next weeks and months to come. Data entry is not something that I would like to do forever, but I must admit that was also fun because I can see myself being busy at the office, being terribly busy on something. Being busy is fun for me and I don't know why.

My other boss told me that on Monday, I will continue on dealing with a client's account that I have been working on since Wednesday. I know that wouldn't be a lot of data entry though but let's see what happens. :)