Week 4 of Work Experience

Today was a little bit different from my other weeks at Swimming WA.

Unlike other weeks, where I have been involved in writing a lot of material for Claire, this week I was asked to assist one of the other staff. Terry works alongside Claire on many projects, but he is employed as a performance and development coach.

Claire helps Terry to run a web site called RecSwim. The site is for swimmers who train themselves. They subscribe to the site to get tips and to download different training sessions, that Terry develops for them.

Uploading all the different sessions can be tedious, but has to be done.

When I was handed the job of manually entering in the data I knew it wasn't going to be exciting, but I was now part of a team. Claire explained it was something she or Terry would do, and my assistance was much appreciated.

Terry has coached all over Australia and the world. He has lived and worked in the US and Canada, and his impressivre history includes swimming for Australia and holding a scholarship at the AIS.

Terry explained how long it takes him to develop a programme for swimmers to access online...he is a 'virtual coach'. The main interest comes from triathletes and senior swimmers, people who want to keep fit, or those that compete in triathlons, masters, country towns etc

I lunched in the board room with the other staff today. I feel like I fit in well and really love the people I have been working with. You know you are part of a team when the others start picking on you :)

I enjoyed listening to their meeting as well. I am not sure how often they hold a staff meeting, but they had one today. They all contributed what they were up to and what plans they have, even when they hoped to next have a staff lunch and drinks!

Claire was apologetic about the lack of 'exciting work' today, but I explained that I was aware that all offices need team players to function well, and understood I had to put in. She was really pleased and said it was a shame I was in only once a week :)

I can't wait to go back!