Work Experience Day 1

So today was my first day at Sony BMG. I got up nice and early, had a shower, ate breakfast and did all the other morning stuff! I got a lift to the train station with my Dad's friend Chris. I saw my Auntie Belinda at the platform so I spoke to her for a while and sat with her on the train. The train got to Waterloo East where I changed and got a train from Waterloo to Putney. I then walked to the Sony BMG offices from there! I found it a little bit hard to find, I walked up and down a few wrong roads and went back on my self a few times but got there in the end! :-D

I went to the reception and signed in and then waited for someone to come down and take me up to the floor I would be working on. (commercial devision) I was taken to a room with a desk and a computer. They then left me there and said "feel free to play on the internet or what not whilst you wait for someone to come and show you around." I went onto the Sony BMG intra-net and it was awesome! It told me all about the single and album sales for the last week and I found this really interesting!

Sophie (I think that is her name) then came and took me on a tour around the building! There's loads of different floors and stuff but it was really cool seeing every one doing different things. Everyone is so chilled out there, its ace! The coolest floor has to be Columbia! Just loads of different music coming out of different offices and loads of cool band merchandise lying around and stuff!

I got back up to the commercial devision floor where I met a guy called Ash who set me up with a task of updating some spread sheets to do with the highest position each Sony BMG artists has reached in the singles chart. That was pretty cool and interesting. After this I went down to help out with the promotions department of Columbia records. I worked with this cool girl who's name I have unfortunately forgotten! but we basically spent the rest of the day sticking stickers onto almost 1000 promotional Groove Amarda CD's. It sounds pretty boring, but it really wasn't! We spoke about bands and stuff and in the room next door was an A&R person who was listening to some reeaaalllyy awesome bands! We started this task at about 11.30 and spent the whole day on it! whats cool is that there are a good 1000 left to go! I'm not sure if I'll be going back to do those or not, but i'm really not fussed if I have to! It was chilled.

After this I went back upstairs and met a woman called Nadia. She set me with a simple task of counting some CD's and checking that their bar codes matched. As It was almost 6 o'clock we decided it would be best to start work on that tomorrow morning! So I grabbed my coat and bag and set off home!

I listened to some cracking tunes on the way home! I'm really enjoying this album by an artist called "Immoor" which is called "The Thievery Of Your Own Things". You can check out some songs HERE!

I also listened to some classic Jimmy Eat World, a bit of Blink and Richard Picot!

Sorry if you found this really boring! Its just for a personal reference really! :-)

Dan xx