FORCED BUT THANKFUL: A Narrative Report

How is it to experience adulthood? What is the feeling of being a worker? How is it to work in a profession that you don't want?

I was just forced but I became thankful for it. I am an aspiring accountant yet doing a work immersion in the field of legal management. Why? Because I am in a strand that I am not supposed to belong to. Due to that reason, I was forced to choose a different field to do my work immersion which is not really connected to what I really want. I unwantedly chose to do my work immersion in the field of legal management even though what I really want is on the other side of the menu. So for this day, I admit that I entered a place that I didn’t really plan to enter.

I am as cold as an ice due to nervousness as I entered the office where I will do my work immersion. It was filled with nervousness since I don’t want to do it and I was only forced to do it. But despite of that, we, alongside with my partners on that field, still did some introductions and mini-tour to the office before accomplishing the tasks given to us. There weren’t much tasks to accomplish since what we only did are some printings using dot-matrix printers and doing stamps on receipts. But as we do those things, I felt happy. Maybe because it was something new to be experienced and maybe because of the fact that I saw those tasks as challenges. However, if there is a specific part of this day that I really want to highlight the most that would be the moment we are taking our snack break because it was the moment when I realized that I am wholeheartedly glad to enter that field. Our supervisor was so nice to us as well as the other office persons. We shared stories and experiences, both connected and not connected to work, with each other as we eat our snacks. Due to that moment, I realized that I can’t do anything if that field doesn’t have anything to do with what I want, what’s important is that I found a family in that specific workplace, in an accidental and forceful way.

What we want will not always be right for us. Maybe the things that we think as good for us distance us from what is better. This work immersion day of mine became one of the significant events of my life because this day taught me something, “We won’t know things unless we try”. We should not let ourselves be taken away by the fear and we must be willing to take the risks. Because our plans will not always be followed and even if they are followed, these plans will not always bring the best for us.