For my work experience I went to work in a music shop called Broadway music, which sells everything from reeds to guitar strings. They mainly specialise in guitars. This shop was located in Rayners Park
My work experience
For my work experience I went to work in a music shop called Broadway music, which sells everything from reeds to guitar strings. They mainly specialise in guitars. This shop was located in Rayners Park which is an area close to my school and an area which I know pretty well and turned out to be very convenient for me! The shop was run by a couple called Karen and Collin I new them quite well because I go into the shop regularly and plus I know there son because we play in the Merton music foundation which is a well established music centre for youths who live or go to school in the borough of Merton. These two people were to be my boss for the next week, I was quite glad about that fact because I knew them and I had a sense of security about me plus I new they where nice friendly people. There were about five people working there all there running the shop and there was two of us on work experience both with the same name funnily enough.
On the first day I arrived at around 9:50 and I had to wait for the other boy to arrive. When I stepped in I felt welcome but also a little shy and nervous. I stood in front of the counter for about 5 minutes just talking to Karen about how I was getting on with my music, and then the other boy arrived. Karen told us were to put our coats and our stuff and we started our first job. Our first job was to look through the music books in the shop and find where everything was and get used to the shop. I found this task quite interesting because I got to read some interesting books and I also got to see what the whole shop looks like. We must have done this for about an hour, and then we had to sit around for a bit. This was the worst thing about the work experience. In a small business like that, I found out that you don’t get many customers and when you do get a few customers they all come at the same time. As the week progressed I had found out that they weren’t many jobs to do. Later on in the day I got another job which required me to face my fears and be confident. I had to go to the bank to get change for the shop. I was nervous about going because I get a little bit nervous when I am going to meet new people or engage in conversation with them. I also had to post some parcels, this was a whole new skill to me. When I had arrived at the post office I was a bit nervous and at that point I felt particularly naïve. I didn’t have a clue where to start and all the procedures you had to go through. The highlight of the day for me was attending a customer well helping to attend a customer. It was a highlight because it was someone from my school and they where asking for something I knew a lot about, reeds (because I play the clarinet).when the day had finally ended I felt tired and I little bit frustrated, because I wasn’t doing very much.I had second thoughts.
