I have also found myself in a similar situation with a coop at my college. I enrolled in the program to gain more experience in my field of study (comp. sci.) I am not complaining about the company or coworkers -- I really like them, however the job functions that they indicated that I would be preforming (database work) has been modified into data entry. I know that job functions change as the project changes and other factors get modified, but it is discouraging to be doing extremely basic tasks that someone with very little experience could be performing. I am trying to learn as much as I can despite my circumstances, but it is difficult to both the drone work that has been assigned to me and learn new things at the same time. I just wish that they could have been a little more up-front about what type of work they really wanted me to be doing.
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I have also found myself in a similar situation with a coop at my college. I enrolled in the program to gain more experience in my field of study (comp. sci.) I am not complaining about the company or coworkers -- I really like them, however the job functions that they indicated that I would be preforming (database work) has been modified into data entry. I know that job functions change as the project changes and other factors get modified, but it is discouraging to be doing extremely basic tasks that someone with very little experience could be performing. I am trying to learn as much as I can despite my circumstances, but it is difficult to both the drone work that has been assigned to me and learn new things at the same time. I just wish that they could have been a little more up-front about what type of work they really wanted me to be doing.