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Updates!

0 comments Posted by Intern Chick at 9:28 PM

I think I have more to offer all of you than just my crazy, hard to believe, intern stories. Being an intern has become a lifestyle for me and not something that has been easy, either! With that said, I'm going to be providing more for my faithful readers.

Some ideas I'm throwing around right now are more Secret Admirer entries (for all my music fanatics), interviews with other intern and industry experts, tips for getting an internship, keeping an internship, living on an intern budget, and eventually leaving that internship (all with style), and something I'm really excited about...featured intern guests who will write about their own experiences as an intern to give those of you who are thinking about interning but not necessarily in the music industry more of an idea of what to expect.

I love reading your e-mails, and comments, so please keep writing and let me know what you want to see or read more of, and even what you want to see less of! If you want to contribute to my blog as an intern guest, please e-mail me at theinternchick@gmail.com and I'd be happy to have you!

Make sure to follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Internchick)
..and come be my friend on Myspace, it gets lonely over there! (http://www.myspace.com/internchick)

I may even post a picture or two of me for all you inquiring minds ;-)

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Internship #3

0 comments Posted by Intern Chick at 2:21 PM

I realize it may not be completely clear what job is what on this blog. So to be clear:

Internship: My original internship that I got in August at a record label. I work in Publishing at this job, and I work for Vin and the Big Boss. I work here three days a week (Tuesday through Thursday)

Job #2: This is the second internship I got sometime around September. I call this a job because it pays me $50/week and because I work from home in my "spare" time to do it. It also requires the most amount of work. My boss for this job is the same boss I worked for last summer, we'll call her Eva. For this, I do internet marketing.

Internship #3: My most recent internship, one that I looked for for quite some time and got hired for back in October. This is also another record label, but I work in the New Media department. This is my favorite internship and one I haven't written much about because I only work here twice a week (Monday and Friday). I have four bosses at this job, two males and two females.


At Internship #3 I mainly deal with our label's website and the websites for all our artists. This also includes their social networking pages. I've worked in New Media in the past, but I strongly feel New Media is the future of the record industry so I jumped at the opportunity to take this job (and they hired me on the spot). There's tons of stuff to be done at this job which is why I like it so much, and I fit in with the office culture much better here. Some of the things I do are update artist websites with news or tour info, make sure the blogs they wrote on Myspace are also posted on their website, create Facebook fan pages, go through every artist site and make sure all the A/V is working properly, and create clips of songs to post online. The main point of the job is to keep our websites accurate and user friendly. I take great pride in working for this company, because they were one of the first record labels to have an online presence and do an amazing job at keeping each website up to date.

All four of my bosses started out as interns and understand what its like to be struggling at the bottom, working for free. This makes for a great boss. They're also young and haven't turned into those typical industry bosses yet. We all work very hard in this department and don't spend a lot of time on bullsh*t (like washing dishes). Overall, Internship #3 was a great find for me and I wish I started it sooner.

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Allow Me To Introduce Myself, My Name Is....

0 comments Posted by Intern Chick at 5:50 PM

..."The Intern." 


For the last three years, thats exactly what I've been doing--interning my ass off.  I've had four internships, and will soon be starting my final one before I graduate college and move on to the big world of working for a paycheck.  When I started out, I knew absolutely nothing about the inner workings of the Music/Entertainment industry I was trying to work for, but more importantly, I didn't know how to be an intern at all.  My job experiences included working as a camp counselor and getting paid to sit on a couch at my school's radio station.  I'm writing this blog while I complete this last internship in New York for anyone who, like me, needs some guidance or at least some idea of what to expect.  Three years later, and I'm still learning new things.  But how did I get to the point in my life where it was time to intern?

I was raised in New England, but never lived the typical New England lifestyle.  I am not a big maple syrup fan, my parents never parked a Jeep in our driveway, and we never vacationed in Cape Cod.  My parents worked hard and long hours to give my sister and I a fair chance at life, and when I was very young, I hated that my mom worked so much.  I never had a cool lunch box with a matching Thermos, my lunch box was a blue bag with my father's company logo written across the top, and there was never a note from my mom inside--one time I even wrote myself a note in my very best "mom" handwriting just to fit in with the other kids.  But as I grew older, my parents instilled in me the value of dreaming big and pursuing that dream, and I've always kept that close to my heart.  They taught me that just because I was a girl, it didn't mean that I had to sacrifice my goals so that I could learn how to sew, cook, and raise a family--and my mother was living proof of that.

I always remember being hopelessly in love with music.  I remember being 6 and sneaking into my older sister's room to listen to Biggie, Tupac, Snoop, Boyz II Men, All 4 One, and Salt N Peppa.  I felt safe enveloped in the sweet sounds of that music.  In middle school, I attempted to master every instrument I could get my hands on:  viola, clarient, viola again, the guitar and the piano, and then voice lessons.  I even made a valiant effort to make the recorder seem like a serious instrument, but nothing came naturally to me and I realized I had to give up the music thing and chalk it up as just a hobby.

I thought about being an artist, a teacher, a lawyer, an architect, an interior designer, a psychiatrist (that lasted about a week), and finally just someone who worked in "business," but none of them satisfied me.  It came time to start picking colleges, and I went back to the simplicity of my childhood and decided that I would pursue my dream.  I declared a music business major and although my parents supported me, a lot of people in my life told me it was going to be a waste of 4 years of my life.  It was hard enough getting to that point, and I had no idea what lay ahead of me.  I tell this story to say this: not every dream is realized by taking a direct path.  Sometimes you have to try on some other things in order to figure out what's right for you.  And as good as the dream feels, no one ever said the road to it was a smooth one.


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