For school I had to create a photo essay to casually document my time here a bit. Below are 12 pictures with captions that you can see once you click on a photo.
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For school I have to make a photo essay to document our time at internship and to help keep us on track they had us make a starter set with a sample of the photos that will be in the final. (Click on photos to see caption.)
I measure the success of the work I’m doing how busy I am. Most of my day is doing simple kind of tasks so while I’m not doing anything gruesome, I’m always doing something and that makes up a successful day to me. The things I’m doing don’t really require hard work but they require time and I aim to focus on that. My time here has really taught me to be tolerant to doing things for extended amounts of time and helped me improve on my patience which I think will help me not just in school but in my future as well when it comes to working at potential jobs. The little things I do being helpful motivates me. Something else I’ve been working on is my project. For my project I was asked to come up with three craft kits to be put in the prize bags for the upcoming summer reading program. At first I had a lot of ideas which I tested out and after a lot of thinking we decided on a watercolor sunset craft as well as a key chain and a lantern that my mentor came up with. Once the ideas were set I wrote a list of materials and an estimate for the bulk costs so my mentor could order them. Soon we will prepare the kits and eventually put together the prize bags. I’ve learned that all though it may take some time, staying focused will really help my work.
Something I’ve learned about after working in a professional environment is that I like to do kinda mundane, simple, repetitive tasks. I do a lot of craft making, inventory, cleaning toys, stuff like that (not that that’s all I do here). Now eventually it can get boring and if I don’t take a break I get a massive headache, but when done right, tasks like that are my favorite part about being here. Most productive things, regardless of how long they take, feel like they take hours, but when you’re just something with your hands you just get to sit with your thoughts for as long as you want. It’s mindless work, like knitting, and even though I usually do these things for hours at a time, it feels like nothing. If I had to pick one thing I dislike about internship it would be how much time it feels like it takes up. Oceanside is a bit far from where I live so I take the train everyday which means that I leave the house at 8:00 and usually get back around 4:30 because of train schedules and everything. Not that this is too much extra time from what I experience when going to classes, but it still feels very different. While at school I’m with my friends all day being social and doing whatever, meaning that when I get home I feel like I did something that day, school was my activity. Meanwhile internship isn’t really like that. Here I’m walking to the train station, sitting at a desk, putting things in bags, etc., just very uneventful, repetitive things. Not that I’m super bored here or anything, but when I get home afterwards, I’m exhausted from everything, but I still didn’t really do anything, and I don’t really have the energy to do anything because I did what I do everyday. I love my internship I really do, but I also really miss normal.
What strikes me most about my workplace is how calm it is. I always pictured real office jobs as an environment where everyone is stressed and on edge. Not that there aren’t things to be stressed about here or that everyone is relaxed all the time, but for the most part I feel very comfortable. My colleagues are super easy-going and nice, and the jobs I’ve been doing haven’t been too hard. I honestly really do like it here. The whole time leading up to this I’ve been really excited about coming here and just doing menial tasks like organizing and stuff which I’ve already done a lot of. Since coming here I’ve wondered a lot about what I’ll really do here, how I’ll make an impact on others, and how I’ll make an impact on myself and my future, all of which I’m sure I’ll figure out by the end of this.
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