The Armchair Economist’s Apprenticeship is a weekly series documenting my progress throughout my journey in the apprenticeship module of the Praxis program. I’m currently an operations associate for a non-profit. At the request of my boss, I’ll be keeping the details of my employer under wraps for the time being.
Week 4: May 25, 2020 – May 29, 2020
What I’m Learning:
One cool thing I learned at work last week:
The process of figuring our your target audience requires conducting research and gathering data. I found a few sources to find data:
- statista.com
- cbb.census.gov
- census.gov
- kauffman.org
One cool thing I learned outside of work last week:
Chien-Shiung Wu was Chinese-American physicist who made significant contributions to the Manhattan project, discovered the Wu experiment, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wu was also outspoken against gender discrimination in the workplace. Yesterday would’ve been her 108 birthday.
You can see more about her life here.
What I’m Creating:
One example of how I created value at work last week:
I picked a project that my coworker and I agreed would suit me, then started a rough draft of my target audience project.
What project I’m currently working on at my BP:
A marketing project about gathering data on our target audience.
What I’m doing to become a better version of myself overall:
Staying organized by updating a to-do list and learning outside work.