My First Job

Encoder / Course Developer

It has been two months since I started working my first job. I’m currently an encoder / course developer at Consolidated Training Systems, Incorporated, an offshore and maritime training institute. This company is responsible for training seamen and offshore workers on different courses including Basic Safety Courses, Tanker Courses, Maritime Courses, etc. But honestly, I’m still not into my work.

CTSI, the acronym of the company that I work at, is a fairly big and good company with high quality standards and a positive name and reputation even outside the country. And the company offers great benefits to employees and yes, I’m really happy about those benefits because even though I’m not yet a regular employee, I had received and I’m already receiving some of the benefits. Plus the other employees are great people and I had already built a friendly relationship with some of them.

I’m actually okay with the company but of course there are some things that I’m not happy about. Some of them are some of the rules and how strict they are with them. Okay, I understand that I have to follow the rules, and yup, I don’t break them… well at least not intentionally. Or maybe I’m just used with the rules of the other companies like my parents’ company and Primer Group of Companies, where I had my internship, and how much more freedom I could get, compared to CTSI, like the dress code, their strictness on employees that are going in and out the office, etc. Okay, I don’t like rules, but if those are the rules, even though I don’t like them, I have to follow them anyway.

Maybe the factor why I still don’t feel my work is not the company. Maybe it’s the nature of my work itself. Yes, developing courses is a real challenge, especially for someone like me who isn’t fond of researching information from the internet or from books or sitting in front of the computer most of the time. But nothing is really easy. I’m just not enjoying my work that much.

Another reason is because I’m a marketing graduate and I want to practice whatever I learned from college. And I really want to be on the marketing field, being on events, formulating and implementing marketing strategies and promotions, meeting a lot of different people, just marketing. Plus I still want to start my own business or businesses.

CTSI is still a good company and I’m still grateful that I got hired here. And I know I’m still just starting but I want more.