Am I ready ?

Internship is coming up and I have got to know my strengths and not as affective things about myself. I need to do this so I can put my best foot forward and make a great impression on everyone there. I think the 1^st thing I will do is make sure I shake hands hard and introduce myself. After I shake hands and I feel an awkward silence which might come up soon, I plan on asking something like, “So how long have you been working at x y and z company?” this way I can keep an interviewer happy because everyone enjoys talking about themselves right. Me personally, I do not care where I work as long as they supply food. As horrible and corny as this sound, there is a logical explanation behind it. If my internship supplied food, I could have conversations with managers and Co-workers there on sight, I could stop wasting time with going out far for lunch or wasting 20 minutes at home trying to figure  out what I wanted to eat, and I  am accessible 100% of the time without hesitation. I do want to develop skills such as better networking and small talk while I am at my internship. I think the worse thing about my whole internship is my anxiety. I am not necessarily scared or worried but just anxious to know where I am going and what I will be doing. I plan on standing out by my active and attentive listening, well at least looking like it anyways. I am a great nodder and commenter without paying 100% attention, my mother can verify. But all jokes aside, I plan on trying to establish myself to the company and show them why I am irreplaceable so they will hire me after internship and hopefully into a full time employee. DREAMS right.

Small things matter too

Even though I didn't do something crazy and out of this world like swim in Alaska, I had a great time. I literally did nothing this break. I had to rest my back, due to my pinched nerve. I thought since I was laying on my back almost half the time, I would get a bunch of rest. That did not go according to as planned either. I met some new friends who live on the East coast. What this means is, by the time I go to sleep West coast time, which is like 4 in the morning, they wake up about 9-10 East coast time, which is 6-7 West Coast time. They would call and scream in my chat party’s when they woke up to make sure I was up with them. It was hilarious and funny so I was not upset at all. So you don’t need to do something life changing to have a good time.

That special time of the year to me

There is one thing that almost every student and employed worker looks forward to. It comes every year and is an expected event worldwide (except certain countries in which it is not accepted due to religion). The thing I’m talking about is Christmas. From children to college student to elderly wives and husbands look forward to this event. This year, I had the privilege to get closer to some people whom I feel are very important to me. Even though I did not get a billion presents and a thousand dollars, I absolutely loved Christmas. The thing I like most is other people’s reactions. Since I play Xbox 360, I talked to different people and talked to other about their Christmases. While I enjoyed that, as much as I love Xbox, I still have to admit, my favorite moments are when, and my closest relatives are by my side. To my mother, grandmother, Makayla, and Year Up community, I just wanted to say. Thank You and I will forever treasure everything I have experienced until the day I can no longer pass the torch.

Why would I network?

I never would have thought about networking with kids. I had a few kids on my Xbox friends list but there is one that I want to talk about. She is 13 years old and very adorable. At first she scared me because she got a bit clingy for me. I just started to talk to her instead of being mean or annoyed with her. After 2 days, she introduced me to a whole bunch of new people witch are great in terms of networking. They aren’t as young as her but one of them, McKenzie, is a girl that works at this restaurant in California and has a family full of super technology literate / savvy people.  They taught me a thing or two about network security, of course ethically. When people say always be on the look at and treat other as you want to be treated, they are not joking. It pays off so much more to be respectful and kind to others in the end, every time.

Ready or not here i come

The qualities of someone internship ready is someone that has both basic knowledge & a desire to learn. This is the talent aspect anywise. They must be socially ready, a feedback master, and take initiative. The problem I have is I am not ready to beg or increasingly annoy my manager by asking for more work. I’m the type of person that knocks out assignments that are given to me. I do not care what it is, the project shall be done. The downfall is after I complete the assignment, I am going to quickly check to see if there is work to be done but if there isn’t, I am going to look up something which I want to read up on, or take a breather.

I also need to be able to figure out who is the best mentor in which they can assist me in 1 on 1 help. I'm a fast learner when I am taught 1 on 1, but how often does this actually happen in a corporate fast paste setting. If it did, that would be over-the-top.

Considering most people around me are going to be older adults, I am excited to enter internships. I prefer mature people around me in a professional setting. This may be because I enjoy teaching others things I have learned. With all that experience around me, I can learn and then teach so much more. I value this legacy quote. “The more you know, the more you owe.”

Work of the day

When I think about experiences with my past jobs, I think of a particular one. It was my absolute worst experience ever. It’s funny though because it’s the one my mother and I always can look toward for employment. The title was HSBC telephone book distributor, if you want to be fancy about it. All my mother and I did was drive to a random houses, get out of the car, walk up to their door, and place a phonebook next to the door. It was a super boring job and when gas prices rose, it made the job that much worse. The only benefits to that job were that we could stop working whenever we wanted and we did not get paid hourly but instead for the amount of work that we produced. This way, if I was at school without anything for lunch, my mother could just leave and take me out with her. Other than those, the job was absolutely terrible. The job had horrible pay, the main location is over 43.1 miles away, the books dealt a bunch of stress to the human body, and I took almost every drop of your leisure time plus work time. My mother constantly complained about her back while she was working and guess what, the company doesn’t have any benefits for the lower level employees. We burned  gas and put heavy stress on our car and for what? We did it just to be able to pay month to month? That job did not show any kind of networking opportunities or promotions in which we could have used in order to do more than just get by. My mother and I knew that we just had to keep on pushing. The second I would get off school, I knew that in some for, whether I have to go out and physically drop off the book or wrap them in bags for her, I knew what was expected and it quickly became the normal of the family in order for u to make it through.