Week 2

17-23 Jan

My second week was a long one getting to the office at 7:30 and leaving at around 6:30 doing all sorts of work and going to different councils. I was not expected to work these hour but I felt that to show that I am serious about work I put the extra effort in. In the mornings I would start on the work given to me as well as phone up the different councils to see if the plans needed to be collected for amendments or if they had been approved.

During the week I was involved in 5 different projects where I had to learn very quickly how steel construction works. While doing this I also became more efficient at working on auto CAD and learned to use many new short cuts and tricks. It is quite different being in the office seeing how the different processes are carried out and what needs to be done.

At the end of the week I was getting more used to the office environment before I went to CPUT for my block one week.