I've been going to work in the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) for upwards of two weeks now, but for the most part all I was given was busywork. For example, my day to day tasks at the office included helping the researchers sort through excel files and my tasks at the garden site included counting seeds and sorting plants at the herbarium.
Yesterday, the director (big boss) James finally came back from a conference he attended in the United States and I met with him. My impression was that he was quite well spoken and a capable man.
He explained to me how even though he's only been working with the garden for one year he already had to overhaul the entire organization and fire many workers, building the foundation up from scratch. The RBG is run by one of the Princesses of the nation and her goal for the organization is to make it into a world-class recognized garden. Of course, that is going to take a lot of work and James has been working to uproot much of the traditional work-culture of relaxation in order to "westernize" the institute somewhat.
So I've started working on three projects at work. One of them involves training the Jordanian staff to give them better professional skills such as how to work with Microsoft office. The other two are more long term projects - and the one that I'm most interested in is designing a scientific research project for plant conservation and to improve the grazing techniques of livestock. So far it sounds very interesting and I am sure that I will very much enjoy my work.
Yesterday, the director (big boss) James finally came back from a conference he attended in the United States and I met with him. My impression was that he was quite well spoken and a capable man.
He explained to me how even though he's only been working with the garden for one year he already had to overhaul the entire organization and fire many workers, building the foundation up from scratch. The RBG is run by one of the Princesses of the nation and her goal for the organization is to make it into a world-class recognized garden. Of course, that is going to take a lot of work and James has been working to uproot much of the traditional work-culture of relaxation in order to "westernize" the institute somewhat.
So I've started working on three projects at work. One of them involves training the Jordanian staff to give them better professional skills such as how to work with Microsoft office. The other two are more long term projects - and the one that I'm most interested in is designing a scientific research project for plant conservation and to improve the grazing techniques of livestock. So far it sounds very interesting and I am sure that I will very much enjoy my work.
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