Making the Switch

In my new internship at Tau Manufacturing, I haven’t had much time to have a proud moment, but I would say the best moment came just recently. Since I started here, I have been working on a design project without much guidance, just a general description of what my boss wanted. I had spent a full week submitting different designs and each time, he said it was close to what he wanted but still needed small changes. At the end of this week, I submitted to him again after making numerous changes to the design and the mating within the assembly and he said that he loved it and wanted me to create multiple sizes of this product to sell. At that moment I felt that I had finally accomplished something at this new internship. This is a feeling that I had yet to experience as I was not given any true responsibility at my previous internship and thus could not feel proud of anything that I had done since it was borderline meaningless.

Again, because I haven’t had much time at this new company, I feel that my biggest professional accomplishment was the same as my most proud moment. This was the first real and tangible project I had ever actually worked on and to complete it to the satisfaction of my boss was an accomplishment in itself. I look forward to accomplishing even more at this company in the time I have remaining.

Living in Ho Chi Minh City has given me a greater appreciation of the opportunities I’ve been gifted in my life. After seeing how hard people in this country work, I feel that I haven’t done myself justice with the amount of effort I’ve put into my school, work, etc. The work ethic in this country is immensely different than what is seen normally around the United States as they have to work harder for the same outcome. This has motivated me to do better in all aspects of my life, work harder and put myself in a better position at every opportunity I get.