I was thinking today about the improvements I have made from the beginning of this course until now. I think that I have opened up a bit more in my work and gained a little bit more confidence in my writing skills now that I have spent the last few months constantly writing something. I’m hoping that I can take the skills that I have learned and apply them in my life moving forward. I only say this because I was thinking about my old job in Germany and I feel like I didn’t take much from what I learned away with me.
I was a video trainer. I created online videos for Microsoft Office 2013 and Windows 8 so that schools and companies could use our product in the same screen of the Microsoft application that is being used. This job was hard for me. I am a very quiet person, I like to keep to myself and don’t really want to be noticed. Being the center of attention and teaching something made me extremely nervous. During this time, I learned how to work in front of a camera, read off a teleprompter and do voice over work. It took me a long time to find a way to be comfortable in this situation and by the end I still wasn’t confident in what I was doing. I think the fear of maybe not teaching something in a way that made sense to everyone made me nervous and would give us negative reviews. Today was the first day that I have ever bothered to look up the reviews for the courses that I have done. To my surprise there wasn’t a negative one out there. I was sure that my courses were not good and a big disappointment to myself. But seeing what people said about how they learned things and liked my style, I am starting to think now that maybe this whole time I was extremely hard on myself. I think I need to take a step back in the things I do and go with my first instinct because that is when I do best. Instead of doubting myself I should realize I have the potential. I’m hoping now I can start to move forward, because this sense of failure I had held me back in some things that I do. Now that I am done with my tangent, I guess what I am trying to say is that this course has helped me gain a bit more confidence in my writing which is big because I was not looking forward to this at the beginning. I am happy that this course ended up in my curriculum.
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