Recap: Touring My Dad's Workplace

 by Yasmin!

In early June 2024, my dad invited my older sister, my younger brother, and me to his workplace program called Bring Your Child To Work. It was an opportunity for your children to learn about parents' jobs and discover that opportunities exist everywhere. My dad works at TM R&D (Research and Development) in Cyberjaya as a Senior Electrical Technician. He works on WI-FI, Internet and more.

At first, we were given breakfast in the cafeteria before we got to the event hall to wear a wristband based on the age group, and we were given a speech from the C.E.O of TM R&D before we started our tour of the building.

Our first lesson was about the invention of a safety helmet. In the modern era, TM invented the safety helmet with a camera on the right side so that whenever the engineers or site managers go to the site field, it can be recorded for reporting and research purposes. Also, they added a GPS to the TM pickup truck to prevent getting stolen or anything bad from happening.

(This is me, trying the safety helmet.)

After that, we go to the second floor, which is the software engineers' office floor. This time, we got to learn their hard work of coding, and we got to interview the software engineers. They mentioned that coding was challenging in the beginning, but they gradually got used to it. They even joked about getting their head bald because of the coding LOL.

Next, we followed our tour guide to the technician's lab, where my dad works. In the lab, we saw so many cables, fibre optic and modems. Also, the technicians explained how WI-FI works, and I asked a question. Maybe my question sounded like this: "How do we know how far WI-FI range can go?" I thought so since I didn't remember much, but I did remember asking about the Wi-Fi's range.

After we finished touring the upper floor, we went back downstairs to the event hall to watch a presentation by someone from the IT field. She gave a presentation about web design, and we completed a quiz she had made on Kahoot. It was all fun because we got to learn a lot from the people in those fields.

At that time, I hadn't chosen my career path yet, so I thought about it. For sure, there is a reason I'm in the communication path. I always thought of choosing something closer to my family, my comfort zone, but being in the communication field is far from it. I'm grateful, though. I understand and am learning to better analyse human interactions and the ways imperfect beings interact with one another.

Thanks for reading! #xoxo #min