First Day.

As the title states, it was my first day at Piktochart. And damn, it has such an interesting working culture. It's different, it's new, it's surreal. LOL. Even though it's my first real job, but I know that it's different from other corporate jobs out there, because there's just so much freedom in the office. Okay maybe it's too early to judge, because I barely had any work to do, but the first thing that I noticed was that the company had a very open concept; there was no partition between tables. Everybody was so friendly and welcoming that it made it easy for me to go around and talk to people. Oh right, that's my only task for the whole day - talk to every single person in the office. Thankfully, half of the office were on leave, so actually I only spoke to half of the office people, but it was still so tiring cuz I'm constantly listening and talking and listening and talking,. At one point I'm nodding and giving appropriate responses where needed but my thoughts have already drifted far, far away. Hopefully I did manage to capture some bits and pieces of their stories.

The meetings they had were actually on bean bags! It was really cool. Presentation-based meetings to get everybody up to speed on what different departments are working on and I felt swag sitting on those beanbags. Hahah. Shortly after lunch, Laura, my mentor, I guess I'm gonna call her that cuz she'll be teaching me everything there is to know about UX research and it was pretty overwhelming hearing so many different terms and different ways of thinking and understanding all this new user behavior stuff, but she tells me not to feel too overwhelmed as it takes time to really understand what the heck is going on. So anyway more tasks and more explanations will be done tomorrow, cuz she's really scared I had too much to absorb. I'm a little scared but also looking forward to learning new things. Today I was really drained from talking to so many new people in one day but yeah I believe it will all get better soon. 

It felt good, how I could relate much of what I learnt in AIESEC's working culture to Piktochart's working culture. I was so inspired that I did a little sharing to my fellow AIESECers in hopes that they will learn as much as they could right now, because really, you never know when it may come in handy. That's the thing about life; there will never be a point in your life to say that "I have learnt enough", because learning never stops. There will always be countless amount of books to read, wise people to listen to and then there's also Google which makes learning that much easier. I'm looking forward to tomorrow, but at the same time, I'm nervous too. Hopefully I'll be updating my blog more often along the way and also take more pictures. =)

And we are all stories, in the end.