My 4th job and hopefully the longest

Went to watch 2 movies with weiming yesterday, namely Swing Girls and The Interpreter. (Still got Millions and The Hidden Blade left)

Today is my first day of work! Again! Haha.... Today is not really my work day, but my training day. I was quite surprised with the number of people doing the field interview. There were a total of around 70 people and a number of them were uncles and aunties. I think around 80% of the total population there is older than me. Clarence and i were separated into different groups as we live in different parts of Singapore. Those who live in the west are grouped together, same goes for those living in the central and east area. There are lectures and powerpoint presentations to advice us on what to do and what not to do during our stint as a General Household Survey (GHS) officer. We are also given lecture notes on what we are supposed to interview as well. I fell asleep a few times since the topics are really dry and fact-based. After several lectures, we were each given a PDA as we would be using it to store information for the household surveys (no survey papers!).

It was the first time i used a PDA and i must say that it is quite interesting to handle some new nifty gadget. We have to memorise the password to unlock the device as the information we gather from the various household are strictly confidential. Some of the questions we are to ask are the personal particulars, family relations, education levels, working details and loads of stuff. Couldn't possibly remember every single question either. Anyway, we got to play with the PDA, know how to open this and that, and enter the relavant data inside.

Had our lunch break at funan at around 12.45 pm. After that was more lectures on the PDA and many people behind fell asleep including me. The speaker was just too monotonous and humourless to engage our attention. We were then brought to different conference rooms where we had ample time to try out the PDA. Some uncles and aunties who are not so pro with these technology gadgets needed more time and personal help to get used to using the PDA. It became rather simple after a few more tries and i was getting really bored, again. At least i'm getting paid for slacking right? Played the PDA games for a while before the debrief. Left at 5.45 pm. The training went rather well today as we did not have do much, only have to listen and press here and there on the PDA.