Conclusion of My Internship

As two months flew by, my internship just concluded with effect from today. I am glad to have undergone this internship because it taught me a few important things and also got me to explore my own interests. Some of you may be wondering why is there no posting throughout the duration of my internship and part of the reason is time. My working hours during internship is pretty long and by the time I reached home, I often just check my emails and do a bit of personal work before I head off to bed.

The other part of the reason is because I just felt like taking a break from blogging and to think through what I want to do upon graduation. There are many areas which I have an interest towards but I would have to commit to a specific role sooner or later. After reading many risk management documents and policies, I think that I am slightly more inclined to prefer that route. Initially, I did not really know that it is a highly competitive role, but from my chatting sessions with my supervisors, it appears that risk management is super competitive and consequently extremely challenging to enter.

Nevertheless, I believe that risk management suits me more compared to other more glamourous roles like trading or investment banking. Part of the reason being that I have specific skills which can contribute to the role such as my programming capabilities, which I have built up for quite a long period of time since my diploma days. The other part of the reason is purely due to an interest in the area, which also explains why I dug around risk management documents and read them for fun.

Anyway, my internship taught me a lot of things and I also got to meet a lot of nice people. Somehow, I feel really lucky that I always get to work under nice bosses and that makes everything a whole lot easier and happier. All of the colleagues in the team had also helped me one way or another either through my work or to create a better work environment. Contrary to my initial expectations, I totally enjoyed my internship and also learnt a lot of things.

Most importantly, I got to work with VPs and AVPs in the course of my work and that had changed the way I look at things quite a lot. I also did a survey on them which had given me valuable insights into what they think and I can say for sure that some of them may be highly paid but still underpaid. Some people may be unhappy with senior management looking at charts and then getting paid much more than the junior staff doing all kinds of work. However, if a person can look at those charts and just find one issue that can increase profits or reduce cost by just 0.1%, he/ she makes a lot of money for the corporation and consequently, that is reason enough to pay managers well.

Anyway, back to myself… with the conclusion of my internship, I have a few things to embark on full-time and I am still in the process of prioritising which to focus on and may be dropping some load off my back. It is hard to make a decision when my interests are so varied, but I still have some time left to decide. For now, I need to clear up all the pending issues that have been left behind when I was doing my internship. My internship ends, but more work is coming.