Today marks the official 1 week of my work. I have worked in this company (www.fusionsystems.org) for 1 week already. And here are my reflections...

It started out with a loud bang. Within the first hour of my first day of work, I was called to a meeting at a potential client's site. Now, I have absolutely no idea what's going on, given that it is my first day of work. So I tagged along and tried to listen as intently as possible to the mandarin conversation conducted by one of the partner. My mandarin is good. I can understand...but it is the terms, or rather the business terms, that I'm not understanding. In addition, I'm in the technology sector, so there are more terms to learn, this time, it is the technology terms. ARGH.

For the rest of the week, I was dealing with an internal renovation project. The company has been expanding rapidly and thus it was necessary to move into a new premise. The same partner was in charge of this because of his mandarin ability. BUT he was going on vacation so I took over this project (just to keep an eye on them). What can I say? Negotiations are tough. I had no idea on what they had previously negotiated, so I had to pull in a few partners and ask for their views and what to do.

And, for that same client meeting, I was tasked with writing the proposal. GREAT. Except that this proposal has to be in mandarin. EVEN BETTER. The whole week has been stressing over the proposal. So I have an initial draft in English...and then we'll (me and another sales person) will get around to translating the draft. I have 2 more days to do it before submission of the proposal.

That's about all that I have been doing...
Not forgetting that I had to look for an apartment to stay, open a bank, book an airline ticket to go to HK to do my work visa permit, sit in on presentations, meet other people..............

And the funny part was that, when I accepted the job, I had no idea on what I was supposed to do. First day of work, I still don't. Second day of work, a better clue. Third day of work, now I know...I am a solutions consultant. Someone who goes and talk to the client and write a proposal recommending some sort of IT solution for their business needs. This position supposedly requires a business understanding (need to be able to talk business and understand the needs of the company) and also a technology understanding so that I can translate the business needs into technology solutions. I do not do the implementations, that will be the responsibility of my company's excellent engineers.

That's it for me...Will update more. The partying over the weekend has been fun though... :)