My name is Rosie and I am in the
middle of my work experience placement at Siobhan Davies Dance. I had visited
the building a few times before when I was younger, but on the Monday morning
that I started, as I walked up to the front entrance, I was overwhelmed by
waves of nerves and anxiety. I was ridiculously nervous, and as a result, all
the way through my initial tour. I could genuinely only manage to smile and
nod. I smiled and nodded a lot, to the extent that I had a headache and my face
hurt. My nerves were relaxed after a while however, and I settled into a
routine of filing press clippings. The people working here are genuinely lovely
and very friendly, which was a huge relief.
My second day was quite low-key,
which was very enjoyable. I had my first taste of office work, with my job of
researching potential wedding bloggers. I had fun with this, and got into a
swing after a while. I also realised that I would be working quite a lot with
Excel Spreadsheets, which was unexpected for me. I had had an idea of the job
being mainly physical, but it made me realise how different elements of life
are often intertwined, especially with modern day technology. You can’t really
have one without the other, because technology and human physicality combined
make all things work-wise so much easier. Only the second day and I was having
a revelation. Wild.
The third day of work was really
busy. On Monday my supervisor had come to me with a detailed spreadsheet of my
week ahead, and I was impressed with her organisation skills (-here’s to you
Fiona!). Wednesday by far was the busiest day. In the morning I used social
media and wrote about dance and art, and filed some more press clippings, and
had an early lunch. After that I attended an informative copywriting workshop
with the rest of the office, and I got to know a few my ‘co-workers’ .I am
currently looking forward to what the next couple of days will bring.
I am glad that I managed a work
experience here for a lot of reasons. The people working here are really
interesting and fun to talk to and in general it has a warm and inviting
atmosphere, mainly because it is quite relaxed and informal. In the future
other work experience-es will also like working here, especially if they were
allowed to sit in on a performance, or maybe even be involved in the process of
creating it.
