Communications Training

Work, well it doesn’t really seem like work, so let’s call it Communications Training, was great. I got to Leighton’s already on a high after getting my acceptance letter from Curtin the night before and left even happier. How? You may ask. Well after stewing about it all day I approached Erin at about 4:50pm to discuss my future with Leighton Contractors. I nervously knocked on her door and approached her desk. I explained that my course was finishing up soon and just wondered what her thoughts were on my performance and if there was a position here for me. I also said that I had been accepted into Curtin University, which she congratulated me on and told me she went there and loved every minute of it. She told me that she thought I was smart, enthusiastic and wrote well (it was very nice to hear) and would really like to keep me on board. We discussed how long uni would take, which would be anywhere from 2 years to 4, 5, 6 years part time, I said I wanted to do it over 4 years. This would mean 2 units per semester, instead of the 4.

Erin said she was very keen to keep me, however it wasn’t up to her, it was up to him, nodding towards the Managing Director’s office next door.  She’s having a meeting with him on the 10 June, so she’s going to put my case forward then and asked me in the meantime to work out when I wanted to work here and they’ll try and fit around me. They were going to fit around me? That was so nice to hear, that a company would offer that. So I’m thinking that with doing 2 units per semester, I can probably work 4days, so hopefully that won’t be too much of an overload on work.

Before all this, I just kept working on the NAIDOC Week plans. We’ll be now taking a trip to Kings Park on the Tuesday for an Indigenous Heritage Trail Walk. I watched the DVD, In A League of Their Own, which was really well made and interesting, just didn’t have the ‘Hollywood ending’ I was hoping for. I then passed on all my NAIDOC work to our Indigenous Affairs Advisor in the Nedlands office to make sure everything was in-line with company policies and procedures.

This week, at Stray-Magazine, I've been handed the reins of the Marketing Manager title for the next couple of months, (the most important months may I add!) as Gen and Romy do their exams and then go overseas. We need to make a contact list of 1000, to send the media release out to get advertising. We then need to organise a fundraising event and then the launch party. Plus we need to organise some promo material to get our names out. All this, while still applying for grants and all this needs to be done before the 1^st issue, which comes out in September. It’s a challenge, but hopefully Bec, who’s helping take the reins with me, can get it done.