Wake up early and enjoy every day

I have started my internship for about two weeks now. Everything is kind of new to me and I really enjoyed my work in Lear Corporation, except that my biological clock wakes me up at 6 even on Sunday. On the first day of my internship, I drove to the headquarters in Southfield and finished the paperwork. After that, Todd Glaspie from the electrical division led me to the Taylor division, which is about 10 minutes from Southfield and 35 minutes from Ann Arbor. 

As I arrived there, everyone in the office welcomed me warmly. I am working in the finance department with the controller, Jonathan Trevathan. The Taylor division is an electrical manufacturing plant. Jon took me to the manufacturing site and explained the manufacturing process of their products. Then he provided me with the list of projects I would conduct in summer. In the first month, I would be working on the fixed asset assessment and the account reconciliation. 

The fixed asset assessment includes identifying every fixed asset that the company owns and tagging those currently without tag numbers or not in the system. In the first few days, I spent most of my time in the manufacturing site to match the machine with the items in the database. The work is tedious, but I learned a lot during that. Now I am clearer about the machine types the company owns and the manufacturing process. The account reconciliation is used to make sure that the amount on the trail balance of every month matches the actual account ending balance. With the help of Deanne Miller, the assistant controller, I prepared the April reconciliation last week. The work includes more than what I learned in class. It is very exciting to apply class knowledge as well as learning new stuff every day. 

I like the working environment in the office there. Everyone is friendly and willing to help each other. People make jokes all the time. There is “Movie & Lunch” every Monday and Wednesday. We saw MacCruber last week. The movie is not my favorite style but hilarious. I heard that the movie next week would be fun as well. I love working there.