The past couple of weeks at work have been pretty dramatic for me but in a good way. I will be moving from my original jobscope of Customer Service to Pricing Control and this is a very huge step that I have to take because 1) my math is horrible 2) it involves analytical skills which I’m not confident of at all 3) problem solving skills 4) a business mindset. Even though I’ve been a business student the past 5 years, I’m not a business person at all. I’m better at languages than figures and the new job scope requires me to spend a lot of time with numbers and excel sheets. My supervisor managed to convince me to take up this role because he feels I should challenge myself while I’m still young and the skills mentioned above are definitely beneficial to my future (which I have to agree with 100%).
I’ve been learning the job scopes of Pricing Control from my colleague who’s going to leave the company soon, which is why I have this opportunity as well. It has been a little overwhelming.. having to learn simple things like “how to see the profit we are getting each day” and “how to find out the reasons behind the figures”.
I know this is something that’s not my forte and I will have to put in 200% of effort if I wanna excel in it. Definitely unlike CS which I can do well in without putting much effort or feeling stressful over. However, it is always the great things that require the most amount of effort so I want to give it a shot.
I really want to do well this time and not let the people who have high expectations in me down (especially my supervisor). Praying to GYM that this will be a fruitful journey and hopefully... not as tough as I would think of it to be...
