So when you start university they tell you, forget everything you were taught in high school, there’s much more to well, everything. The parrot learning stops and suddenly you are actually required to think! So you put in the hours, this is where hard work starts to payoff, or so you hope. If you’re lucky it may just, if not well, try, try and try again! It is possible to know everything and still fail that exam! No more parrot learning remember? Regurgitating the textbook went down (or would it be out in this case) with high school. By second year things pick up, including marks (hopefully) and then the time comes, you finally graduate! You have a degree, you earn alumni status, job offers come from every corner (again, hopefully), the world is oyster. So this is the point I am right now. Wits graduate, undergrad – Marketing and Finance, honours – marketing, job experience? Close to none...wait do those little promo stints I did in varsity count? Yes? No? Ok, yes it is.
When you get to the workplace you wonder what it was exactly that you were taught in university. Which part of it is relevant to your current job description? Well I am to find out this part, just graduated, moved to a new town, finding my feet, socially and career wise. My job description? Management trainee at one of the world’s leading tobacco companies. What does my job entail you may ask? I’m not so sure myself but I’m willing to take you along for the ride as I explore various parts of our beautiful country, learn how succeed in the work place, making that smooth transition from university to the office...and everything else in between. Just sit back and enjoy while you flip through the pages of this megaZEEn...
