10 things I learnt from working

Tomorrow will be my last day at work, before I collect my O' level results. I'll then decide whether I should continue working or not after collecting the results. Good results then I'll continue working. If they're bad, then I'll have no mood to work.

So what have I learnt in the 2 weeks in my aunt's office? Well basically it's some accounting/admin work that teaches me business admin, collate data, file data, input data and so on. I find my job very interesting, and I've learnt a lot of things about banking and business from it.

1. The bank is a sucker. It sucks all your money. Every transaction you make, the bank eats up some of it. For example, for a fifty thousand US dollar transaction you lose about two hundred to the bank - as commissions and some other charges. Hence, be a banker.

2. How to use Microsoft Excel more efficiently.

3. How hard it is to work and yet not get sick and tired of your job.

4. Credit advices; debit advices; bills of laden (BL); letters of credit (LC); taxations; cheques; transactions; indents; invoices; GST; tally bank statements of account; filing; prices of metals; type packing lists, enclosures, invoices.

5. How to collect official documents from banks and companies (in areas like Keppel Tower) while carrying a document worth half a million in your hands.

6. How to take good care of documents as losing them means making a police report and losing money.

7. How the business world is like; how people get cheated; how people make mistakes; how business contacts are made; how business is maintained.

8. How to work with your fellow colleagues and how to get along with them.

9. How the business is like, how to buy/sell (trade), how a business works and flows.

10. How important a typing error is. One error can mean a loss of one million.