Being that I’m the main design person, I didn’t think there was much about design I could learn from the staff but I have been able to pick up a new skill. Since their files are located on a cloud, contributed to by participants nation-wide, sometimes, files go missing. This means that there isn’t always an original InDesign file ready to be edited and sometimes, I’m only sent a PDF and told to make changes. The first time this happened, I was so worried – how could I possibly update a file that I didn’t have? I’ve since learned how to edit using Adobe Acrobat. It’s taken a bit of researching on my own but I’ve figured out how to relink PDFs, update text & images, and other things I didn’t even realize were important. I never knew that you could do these things in Acrobat and I honestly just thought it was a PDF viewer, nothing else. I was pleased to learn otherwise.

I do have a certain level of clerical duties to handle but usually that includes updating filing for design folders in the cloud or correcting text that needs to be sent out since I am under communications. I’ve learned a bit about functioning in a business setting as well. On my first day, I got a lecture from the IT person on the do’s and don’ts of using office computers when I prematurely gave him access to my computer. I’m also learning that emails are sent to people sitting 10 feet away from you which is sort of weird to me but I guess it’s what works best.