Writing minutes of a meeting

I am not quite a secretary guy and I was asked to write minutes of a meeting today!

Seriously, I really don't understand why my company wanted me to write minutes. They claimed that this is the best way for me to understand the whole project inside out. But honestly, I would rather prefer to do what I was hired to do.

Never mind writing minutes, the feedback i got for my minutes was my sentences were too general and my attention to detail were minimal. Please consider that this was like my second attempt in minutes writing and I wasn’t given any proper instruction on how to do it. To make matter worst, this meeting was like my first out of a dozen meetings they have been having with the client (I guess they probably think I could instantly pick up the whole scenario). So it was a serious OMG case for me... lol!

With all the negative feedback, I bet they wanted to train me more on minutes writing. They even conducted a very educational "lesson" for me and some other new staffs this afternoon on "THE IMPORTANCE OF MINUTES OF A MEETING" and "HOW TO TRANSFORM SPEECHES INTO USEFUL HANDWRITTEN INFOMATION".(I guess their intention to pull in some extra peoples was to disguise the idea of the "lesson" was targeted on me.)

Regardless, I know that their intention was good. Perhaps I was too much of an egotist to accept a simple task like minutes writing. I can't possibly give in; I can't simply let them think that I cannot handle a task like this.

And yes, I will be having another round of meeting tomorrow. Guess what, THIS TIME I’M GONNA OFFER MYSELF TO WRITE THEM A GOOD MINUTES, or at least I will try to write a good one. ^^