Meeting
I was invited to attend a meeting for the first time, where different teams made their own presentations on various on-going projects. I didn’t think I would be attending one, since I am just a short term contractor, but my team leader asked me if I wanted to go and I took the opportunity at that instant. The meeting wasn’t what I thought it would be - it was more like a discussion group kind of thing, like a seminar. I got to learn what other teams were doing and how different people from different teams come together and communicate issues and ideas. I was fascinated with the implementation of the third pipe system in the one of the new Estate communities and how different coloured pipes will represent different water supplies. I also learnt about the SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), a system for communicating information to and from various sites in the water system. I was pleased that I could attend because I learnt so much from the meeting. It’s funny how I have finished my studies and yet I am still learning new things. There are heaps of new acronyms at work that I need to get used to - especially when I need to deal with different assets of sewage and water systems.