happy spring break

The Renaissance Festival during Spring Break! The knight in the photo called MAX won the game and I was on his team!

 

Turkey Leg there was delicious! But too big for me..... 

 

Look at these two kids, they were like in the French film called "Love me if you dare". Soooooo cute!

Interview of my supervisior

The supervisor I interviewed is the deputy treasurer of my office, Mr Greene.

1. What is your main job responsibility?

    The first one should be the budgeting. And he also responsible for some special projects, monitor legislation, manage IT service and technical service divisions.
    He also needs to develop programs and update policy and procedures for the office.
    He will do the high level report annually.

2. What type of education or training is needed for your position?
    
   Financial and economic background, CPA/MBA , knowing how to quire data.

3. How did you chose the career?

   At first, he wanted go to medical school, but financial job can help him to support himself early. 
   Then he found the thing he really good at, may not the one he wants to do. However, if he can find a job with more autonomy,  he will enjoy the job.

4. What advice would you give to someone interested in this field?

   Look for a more marketable degree.

   See what kind of job you really want to do

   Be creative

   Do not limit yourself on a traditional view.

5. Do you notice any trend in you field?

    

   More professional degree needed

   High technical skills 

Leadership

Since I am just an intern in the office, there are not too much opportunities for me to show my leadership skills.

Fortunately,  the trainer divided all interns of MCLEAPS program into two groups to work on group projects. And she also asked us to select a leader to track the project and report to her once a week.

For a group work, leadership is important and also difficult. Since we are all full-time interns in different departments and working at different buildings, even cities, it is not easy to get together to discuss the project. The group chat and google doc became the best way for us to exchange ideas. Thus, it is really hard for the leader to track everyone’s work progress.

I am the person who care the progress so badly. If someone do not complete his/her portion on time, I will be very frustrated. According to some books, they divided leadership styles into several categories, such as bureaucratic leadership, charismatic leadership, servant leadership and transactional leadership. Each one has their own characteristics.  Thus, I think I might be the bureaucratic leader and always want to everyone follow the procedures. Once I was a leader in a group, I tried my best to set several procedures for them and track the process frequently. The result, as you can see, it was not good. The group members felt I was so annoying.  

So I believe every leadership style should not be isolated and should be combined according to your and your group member’s need.

I am hungry now and need fried chicken right now. I may continue this topic someday…..hah!