My first essay

My first essay
18/09/08

Antonia Cordedda
Home work


My name is Nadia Di Martino.

I am Italian woman.

I am going to explain what kind of previous work experience I had. I was a secretary in a lawyers office since March 2000 until January 2003.

I started this job for some strange circumstance. Those days I’ve been in financial troubles that is why I wanted to give up my university’s study. I was born in Sardinia in a poor labour family, my dad was a simple labourer in port of Cagliari. I was always a good student, so my family has been supported me financially for several years, but once my parents could not maintain me longer I went to Milano for living with my relatives.

My next step was finding out a job trough newspaper adverts and then, at the end of my exam, my teacher at the State University of Milan in Faccolta’ di Giurisprudenza encouraged me to keep the same high level of studying. I was moved and I expressed my intention to give up with my study. So, he asked me if I wanted to work in his office as a secretary.

Therefore I decided to keep this opportunity using my university knowledge in this field. Shortly I realised that a daily work in the lawyers office could be very interesting. All these matters such as commercial agreements, business solutions, trials and judgements were so exciting. Sadly all secretarial duties were so boring: my daily workload consisted in answering calls, managing office’s agenda, archiving documents and writing horribly boring commercial letters.

Anyway, this experience was very useful and I’ve exploited it in my future live. In fact, I decided to move in London and at the moment I am working as a Manager Of Administration Support in one of the lawyer’s office branches. Meanwhile I am studying at The University of London doing the evening courses at the faculty of Law and Business Communication.