Work Experience Essay

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Samia Rashid

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Work Experience Essay

     Rollercoaster. That’s the perfect word to describe my work experience. A fortnight filled with moods, emotions and sore feet. My work experience started of at Adams the children’s store in town and I ended up at a chemist in Bury Park by the end of it. It was filled with highs and lows, but it was an ordeal to go through! I had never thought a child’s clothes shop would be such a headache and what I had to go through to change my work experience placement. But here goes my encounter, of the horrible store manager and the delightful pharmacists.

     I had butterflies, as did everyone else when they started work experience, but I already had a negative vibe from Adams. I had a feeling I wouldn’t like it there. Many thoughts were going through my head as I walked into Adams. Will they like me? Will I like them? However, I put a smile on and hoped that the people were nice. There were two ladies at the counter. I let them know that I was here for work experience. One of the ladies, automatically, almost like a robot, grabbed the telephone and said ‘work experience is here’ in the dullest voice you can imagine.

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     A few minutes later another lady came upstairs from the store room and introduced her self. Tracy was her name. She seemed very friendly, like a mother figure. She showed me the health and safety precautions and where everything was situated. Another girl who worked at Adams was very friendly; she told me how each worker talks and walks, which made me laugh; little did I know that was going to be my last laugh. They showed me how to tag clothes and put them on racks. This is what I did continuously until break, after break, until ...

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