{"id":466,"date":"2019-04-24T22:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/?p=466"},"modified":"2019-04-24T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:14:17","slug":"the-first-taste-of-whats-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/2019\/04\/24\/the-first-taste-of-whats-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The first taste of whats to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday some of us got our work placements, myself included.<\/p>\n<p>I was to have my interview a bit later on the same day, for a position at TWIN (the agency in which we had our English course), in which i would be required to do quite a bit of programming. While in and of itself that would not be an issue, I really wanted this internship to give me the chance to further my English skills.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLuckily another student of our group got a position as first level support assigned and we where allowed to trade places.<\/p>\n<p>After a surprisingly cold bus drive to TWIN, I had a short interview, in which i was primarily asked about my experiences with hard- and software.<br \/>\nImmediately afterwards I received a briefing on the work structure and the most important network components.<\/p>\n<p>While there was little to do for me in the early hours, just before lunch i was asked to buy a few replacement batteries as some computers where giving warnings about low voltages in their CMOS batteries.<br \/>\nWith the closest place that sold the right batteries being IKEA (of all things), I went there and promptly got lost; twice!<\/p>\n<p>After getting back to TWIN I helped to set up a work place and got to check a few dozen computers for functionality and dust buildup.<br \/>\nChecking the PCs was very time consuming but i was able to use the time to talk to a coworker about the work they do.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before calling it a day, we quickly changed out a graphic adaptor to enable a coworker to work with two monitors again.<\/p>\n<p>I am really looking forward to working with the IT support team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday some of us got our work placements, myself included. I was to have my interview a bit later on the same day, for a position at TWIN (the agency in which we had our English course), in which i would be required to do quite a bit of programming. While in and of itself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/2019\/04\/24\/the-first-taste-of-whats-to-come\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe first taste of whats to come\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}