Principles of Coding - training

 I have spent 4 days working on a report to do with coding with training done by Emma from Escalla. Personally I am not the type of person that enjoys coding or anything to do with it. I am a much more active worker and I don't like to sit at a desk all day. This in mind I have learnt so much about different coding languages and the history of the internet however no discredit to Emma I found every aspect of the content in the training to be incredibly boring. I had no interest in any of the topics that we went over. Thinking about it in terms of my current job role I believe that it has done nothing in allowing me to improve my day to day skills whereas the other training we have done has been excellent in expanding my knowledge. Coding is the complete opposite of what I see myself doing in the future however I can think of one benefit of doing this coding training and that is that I now understand how much I dislike coding so I will not waste any of my time in the future trying to do anymore of it. 

Block Week Post

 Recently I have been extremely busy in work. Not able to post on my blog as often as I'd have liked too. The past Month or two I have been working three jobs at once. This is due to one of the lads that does the same job for me at MotorMatch has been off on the sick. So I have been doing the work for Citroen, Peugeot and MotorMatch all at the same time and have been brushed off my feet completely. I hadn't even touched my keyboard for weeks. I have been focusing on doing the photos and videos of every single car at both sites and because of this I believe that I have fell behind slightly in my apprenticeship work. However all things considered I believe that I have been working very well in the circumstances and feel that I have gained very valuable time management skills being able to bounce round the different dealerships getting work done. I also believe that I have demonstrated to the managers of all three sites that I am a very valuable asset to the team working as hard as I possibly can. 

Week Ten!

My tenth week working at Swansway Chester has been quite a slow week. I haven't had much videos to do because I've managed to get most of them done. So this week I have tried to learn more about the Peugeot and Citroen range. I have been spending more time inside the cars and learning the ins and outs. I feel like doing this has been very important for my future videos as I will know more about the cars and will therefore be able to explain on my videos in more detail. Moving forward I think that my videos will now be of a better class. 

Week Nine!

This week in work I attempted to reach my goal of finishing all the used cars videos at Peugeot. I was on track to reach my goal however just when I thought I would finish 5 more used cars came in on the friday. I'm not that worried about missing my goal because I would have if the cars weren't delivered - so in a way I was able to get what I wanted done. Other than this I had a pretty standard week. Nothing exciting really happened I just got my head down and did my job. Short one this week.   

Week Eight!

I've managed to get all the used cars videos done over at Citroen! So until any more cars come in my main priority is to do the same for Peugeot.  I have also been working on E-clincher posting used car adverts on Facebook for both Citroen and Peugeot. I like to break my day up by doing one video then one post, I believe that this keeps things interesting. I don't like sitting down all day and doing one thing so splitting the desk work up with the practical work is good for me and I think it allows for me to do my best work. My goal for the end of next week is to get all the used car videos done at Peugeot.

Week Seven!

Finishing my Seventh week working with Swansway I can happily say that I feel fully settled in. I know everyone in both garages and people are starting to get used to me being here. I believe in my first few weeks it took me a while to get some things done however now I know everyone and know how everything works I am able to get jobs done much more efficiently. I am enjoying helping around the showroom and feel that now I know what I'm doing I am a much more valuable member of the team. I am able to get my main jobs for the day done and also help out other people get their jobs done. I have been going to get fuel for hand over cars and I really enjoy helping out as much as I can.  

Week Six!

After my Sixth week of work at both Citroen and Peugeot showroom garages I have been fitting in more and more with the team. I believe that I am closer with the lads from Citroen however I have a good laugh with the lads at Peugeot too. I wouldn't say that I have a favorite garage because I enjoy working at both and both have their good and bad. There's only one bad thing I can say about splitting my focus between two garages is and that's there is not enough days in the week for me to spend equal time at both. Again I have been working on my used car videos however I have been helping about around the showroom more - moving cars and just doing odd jobs for people. I'm enjoying working more and more and the longer I work here the better it seems to be getting! I hope it continues to go so well.