Assignment 3: Solicitors in Birmingham City Centre
		Big bright offices, and the other secretaries were wonderful – they even diverted the telephone on my desk so I wouldn’t have to answer it.  Lots of work to do (easy stuff like memos and correspondence) and I was working with women bosses, which I really enjoyed.  Time passed very quickly.  And they liked me!  Bloody amazed!  This was the first time I actually heard praise about my work.  I overheard one of the solicitors I worked for saying, “She’s good, isn’t she” to one of the other secretaries.  My ego swelled to mammoth proportions!  On my second day, I forgot the code for the security door and had to stand outside like a pilchard until someone came along and punched the right numbers in – I pretended I’d only just got there, but I’d been hanging around for a good 10 minutes.  Had to work late on my last day to finish something, but I wasn’t happy about it.  Rushing to get the job done, I muttered furiously, “As if I haven’t anything better to do on a Friday night.  I do have a life, y’know.  I have children!  My children need me!” Little did I realise that the solicitor was standing right behind me the whole time.  She just laughed.  I was quite sad to leave, it was a pleasant working environment.