Hi Ya Davit:
Thank-you to for taking time out to offer words of encouragement.
I took an unpaid work placement because it is a requirement in my college program. Right now the only person benefiting from my work is my supervisor, she is the type of person I am finding that lets her work pile up for a year or so. Now she has me to clear up the back log. You see this is supposed to be a supervised position where I learn things. As for being supervised she just doesn't have the time, she is either in meetings, attending conferences or on the phone. I think in the month I have been there she has actually sat down & spent oh about 2 hours with me and even that wasn't all in 1 day. TI am basically her administrative assistant, nothing which I have ever done in my past 10 years of accounting. Just the other day she asked me to enter survey results on the computer, gave me the surveys and asked if I could just try and figure it out. No training no nothing, oh sure she gave me the website, user name and password & the rest I had to figure out. Stupid me tried and tried getting more frustrated by the minute, but no would I give up - not me. Just continued to get to a point where I couldn't take it anymore, I did as much as I could. It was nearly my time to leave and I just said to myself that's it I can't take it anymore. I went to say good bye & told her about my frustration & what I had accomplished. I couldn't believe what she said - Oh you're smarter than, then she paused. I knew what was next, than I thought. Here I am working my tail off struggling to do the best I can & she says this!
So far I have been asked to provide background research for a pilot project using APA formatting, take minutes at meetings, create a bibliography, look into price comparisons of accounting software, re-do a power point presentation all of this with little or no training from her. My nerves are shot to hell and add to the fact about not being invited to pot lunches. I am seriously thinking of packing it in, as I am on edge day/night, extremely self conscious to the point I just want to run away when cars are going by & think people are judging me when walking by.
As for telling you my good points my psychotherapist asked me to list one of my good points everyday, at this stage the way I feel - I don't see any.