A Memory — Day 3 of the Writing Challenge
I was so embarrassed, I wanted to die right then and there.
So this memory is from when I was 18 years old. I had started university that year. So in summer break, I had to do some internship, it was recommended but not compulsory. Anyway so I applied for this one company SIEMENS and they took me in.
It was an amazing opportunity because the company was really big and it was my first time working in an office environment, or so I thought….
Naturally, I was really happy to get the internship. I was placed in the technical department because I was a student of Telecommunication Engineering.
I don’t even remember the department name now!
I thought to myself…
wow! I’m gonna learn some telecom network designs, or drawings of some technical equipment blah blah… and I’ll be so ahead of my game.
But alas! I was wrong. So very wrong.
On the first day, the guy who was supposed to be training me handed me over to another guy. That guy looked like a student himself may be a second-year university student. He gave me a bunch of manuals of some electrical devices and said, “here, read them.”
What the hell!
I thought to myself.
I didn’t understand what the thing was about, but I read them anyways because I thought maybe he will come back after some time and help me out with understanding it. But no! He never came back to me.
I tried asking him about it, but he would get annoyed and say “ just read them; you’ll understand.”
So there I was… a student from the first year, who had no clue about electrical devices or anything related to it, trying to make sense of those manuals.
I was so mad and frustrated. I felt like this was such a waste of my time.
Day after day I tried to make sense of the technical jargon in those manuals, and day after day I failed.
I lost all motivation to work there, and I knew I had to somehow survive the two months or else I would go insane.
So I decided to take one of my novels to work and instead of reading manuals, I would read that.
Now don’t judge me, people…..I was there for learning but alas!
I used to read Sydney Sheldon novels, and I was reading one at that time. It was called “Are you Afraid of the Dark?”
So I would sit in the office, Put my novel inside one of the manuals, and start reading.
Time passed so quickly when I was reading, and before I knew it, it was time to go home.
This went on for weeks, until finally, one day when I was reading, other people would pass me and stare at me with a funny look on their faces.
I thought to myself” what the hell is wrong with them?”
And then I realized……
The manual in which I was hiding my novel, was upside down.
I was so embarrassed, I wanted to die right then and there.
That was the most embarrassing and annoying experience of my life. And to this day, whenever I see a manual I remember that day!
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