Um Mistake? or experience?

Tuesday I arrived at work excited about what I was going to do. My tasks of this internship include research on Vascular Products, Testing Vascular Products, and report writing and protocol development. Unfortunately it didn’t go as well as I planned. I was under the impression I would begin my job engaging in menial tasks in order to qualify for more respectable jobs to do. But I found myself going head on into data collection and research whereupon I was placed down stairs in their manufacturing warehouse performing a closed loop arterial circulation experiment to test the effects pressure and temperature have on the valve outlets of their newly developed Peripheral Arterial Device. Not only that but data had to be collected every 10 minutes for an hour under 300 mmHg pressure at 37.2 ˚C, another hour for 600 mmHg and then every 5 minutes going up to 1000 mmHg. TWO AND A HALF HOURS (and I had to do 4 trials). I had to record temperature, pressure, and whether there were leaks. Not to mention it was about 100˚ F there too. AND I had to wear ear plugs because all their manufacturing machines were running I couldn’t even hear myself think. fml. So my whole day was just that. Sitting, record, sitting, record…sitting. And my lunch is apparently only 30 minutes, where I’ve heard everyone else’s amounts to an hour an a half. AND I don’t have any breaks during the day. Hell at it’s best. By the time I was done, I was hungry, exhausted, and could hardly stand. To top it off, my commute home is 1.5 hours…just on the bus, that’s aside from the 30 minutes of walking.

Luckily I made it to the oldest hotel in Sydney in the rocks to meet a few people. It’s a micro-brewery. That at least lifted my spirits a little.