Showing posts with label opportunities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opportunities. Show all posts
I have three months to turn this internship into a job opportunity. It seems so impossible to me but I'm so determined and committed to making it happen.
I've been commuting into Manhattan 4 times a week. I leave at 8:30 in the morning and get home around 9 or 10PM. Some days are great, some are uneventful, and some are just plain awful--like the day I plugged my laptop in and it started smoking, and I had to go home, 20 minutes after coming into the office.
All in all, the work is fun. We work closely with our artists so I get to be hands on and watch their projects come to fruition, and sometimes I actually feel important. I'll be using my time on the train to blog more often about what goes on day-to-day. Definitely a lot more exciting than the work I was doing last year, and I get a lot more responsibility. Three months to turn that responsibility into a paycheck..
Guest Intern is a post written on Intern Chick once a month featuring a different intern sharing their experiences. This month's Guest Intern is Rina, an intern in Boston's Biotech industry.
If you have questions about Rina's experience, you can e-mail internchick.guest@gmail.com or leave a comment on the blog.
I'm on my first internship right now in the Biotech industry working as a chemistry intern, and I love it! However, it didn't come easy. This summer I was studying in Spain while everyone else was searching for their internships. My advisor told me I should be fine looking for a job abroad as long as I had access to internet and a phone...boy was she wrong! No one wanted to hire me if I couldn't come in to meet them (understandable), but even worse was that no one wanted to hold off hiring an intern just so they could meet me. I missed out getting a chance to interview with some amazing companies doing some cutting edge research. Then, when I did get back to the U.S., everyone else started working at their internships and I was still looking for one.
Sometimes I wanted to give up, but I'm definitely glad I didn't! Finally, through networking (yes, it is as important as Intern Chick says it is), I found a job that I absolutely love. But it definitely didn't come easy, and there were more than a few moments when I thought I would spend my fall semester in classes doing homework while my peers were gaining real life job experience.
Even though studying abroad proved to cause a ton of hassles when trying to find a job, I wouldn't have sacrificed that opportunity. I know someday I will have to learn to make sacrifices for me job instead of sacrificing the chance to get a job but right now, I'm living in the moment.
After all, I am a Libra and life is all about balance to me.
You know how dogs can smell fear (dogs can probably smell my fear from 500 miles away because I am Terrified of them with a capital T). I think that bosses can smell dissatisfaction and contempt.
I'm so totally over final-internship-before-you-graduate internship. Yesterday I was inches from tapping Vin on the shoulder and telling him that I can't do this anymore and I'm GONE, content with living out my days hiding under the covers from my mother and father. It took every bit of me not to do it, my body was at my desk, but my mind was at a new internship, giggling over coffee with my new boss and intern friends.
Needless to say, attending work this morning was not the easiest thing to do, I had to pretend I was 6 years old again and my dad was standing over my bed with a SuperSoaker water gun to get me up and go to school. My first task of the day (after having it pointed out that Vin and I wore the same color shirt today) was to listen to three demos and see what I thought....trash, trash, and more trash. Next? Midday, while counting how many days I have left of this internship, Vin asked me this:
Vin: So, what do you want to be doing??
Me: What??? (Is it bad if I tell him I'd like to run out of this office like a bat out of hell and never return?)
Vin: You know, like, what do you want to learn here? I want you to get the most out of this internship so, what do you think?
Me: Umm...well obviously, I'd like to be dealing more with music because that is why I'm here
Vin: Like what?
Me: (OMGz, does everything have to be this hard?) Well, I don't even know what a publishing intern is supposed to be doing! So, if the description has music in it, I will do it.
Vin: Okay so right now I have a list of artists that are looking for tracks, so would you want to listen to some of the stuff our producers and songwriters are working on and match what artists you think would sound good on certain songs?
Me: (DUH!!!) Yea, sure...I mean, that sounds great!
Vin: Okay so you can do that, and then pass them to me and I'll look it over and we'll send it out to the Big Boss and the artists
Maybe bosses can smell potential, too.
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