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Michele’s Tips for Interns
July 21, 2006 – 3:31 am- Network - I worked at a post house for 10 years. If you didn’t know someone there, your likelyhood of getting an internship was not too high. I know you all hate to hear about "Networking" but that IS where it’s at. Attend user group meetings, MCAI meetings and other get togethers with local professionals. Get on all of those mailing lists. Volunteer for film shoots. This will look good on your resume and it will help you meet the people that can get you the internships and jobs.
- Learn about the industry - By networking and going to user group meetings, you’re already learning about the industry. Read the magazines, hit the websites (like this one!) and use the online forums. You never know who you might meet on those forums and I’m sure you’ll learn something new.
- Get your hours and contact info in writing - Maybe it was just the place I worked but we were immensely disorganized. We didn’t have the hours that the interns planned to work and we didn’t have their phone numbers either. Yes, it seems odd, but this sort of thing often seems to be overlooked.
Problems arise when you can only work part time on certain days and they need you at other times. Getting this in writing up front will keep problems about your hours from popping up later.
- Make yourself valued - When I interned, the Avid editors would bitch about having to black tapes all of the time. I had a hundred blacked tapes ready to go for them in a variety of durations. The graphic artists complained about not being able to find logos when they needed them. At that time many were printed and stored in boxes… yeah, it was the dark ages. I scanned them and created a logo database for them, complete with alpha channels. Everyone was so pleased that they didn’t have to do this grunt work and they finally decided that they couldn’t live with out me.
Incidently, I left last fall and pretty much daily I’m still asked how to do certain things. It’s called job security, kids. Use it to your advantage.
- Keep busy - This really goes with the previous point. If you have nothing to do, find something to do that will benefit others at the company… something that they will notice. Ask if you can catalog their backups, set up a database of logos, update the client database, proof read others work… whatever you can think of. Ask others if they need help. You can be their extra hand. Maybe they need something small done that they can pass off to you.
- Learn some new software - If you have nothing to do at your internship, spend it learning some high end software that you can’t afford or brush up on your editing skills. Of course, you’d need an open computer to do this.
- Help the non-profits - Find out what causes the owner or boss supports. There are always non-profits needing free work, so ask your employer if you could do some free work for the company, using their equipment. It makes them feel like they’re helping the community, gets some professional work under your belt and helping non-profits is a good thing.
- Never burn your bridges - So, your internship isn’t what you want it to be. You don’t like your boss or your clients. The best advice I can give you is to keep a positive attitude, even if it kills you. Keep showing up even if you don’t want to. Internships are short term, usually just a semester, so it will not last forever. You will need references for future jobs and you never know… this guy could be best buds with the owner of the company you REALLY want to work at.
- Don’t be afraid to talk to people - Find the person in the office who is the lead designer and bond. You can learn insider tricks and build a relationship with a mentor. You’ll soon get to hear the gossip and learn how thing REALLY work at the company.
- Dress the part - The place I worked was really laid back. Everyone wore jeans and t-shirts every day. Some employees had crazy hair and lots of piercings. If that’s how the company is, then sure, dress that way. However, if everyone else wears khakis and polo shirts, your Fugazi t-shirt probably isn’t impressing anyone. Remember, this is a stepping stone to something else, so if you have to wear a shirt with a collar for 4 months, it could mean the difference between getting hired and getting a "Good luck with your career".
- Take notes - No, it’s not school, but writing stuff down as someone explains can help it absorb into your brain. I had notebooks full of notes on how to patch the patchbay in the machine room to the proper size to make logos to how to make a corner bug. I could go back and refer to it any time. The successful interns take notes and make lists.
I had an intern that did a lot of damage by screwing up our numbering system in the library. I explained it all twice and the intern claimed that they understood the system. It all had to be redone at a cost to our time. Another intern messed up a website by not paying attention to instructions. Neither of these tasks were difficult and could’ve been avoided if the intern would’ve paid closer attention. They both blamed their ADD by the way. Take your ritalin, kids, and take notes.
- Don’t talk about your drunken partying - Yes, it’s tempting to talk about the sexy girl you met last night and took home to meet your 1000 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets after 8 Jaeger bombs. There’s a time and a place, and your internship ain’t it. Don’t talk to other co-workers about it and don’t talk on the phone about it with your homeys.
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April 3, 2006 – 5:35 am1. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
2. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
3. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
4. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
5. Slow and steady wins the race.
6. Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
7. We need never be ashamed of our tears.
8. All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
9. We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
10. “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
11. And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him.
12. No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
13. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .
14. “Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.”
15. Call me Ishmael.
16. “Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”
17. They were going to look at war, the red animal–war, the blood-swollen god.
18. “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
19. “You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
20. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Did u know ?
April 3, 2006 – 5:34 am* The bible is the most shoplifted book in the world
* Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen had a pet scorpion which he used to keep on his desk for inspiration.
* British writer Charles Dickens always slept towards the North because he thought that it would improve his writing.
* British writer Lewis Carroll, author of “Alice In Wonderland” wrote most of his books standing up.
* The very first book about plastic surgery was written in 1597.
* British writer and poet Lord Byron once had an affair with his half sister and made her pregnant. * British poet Lord Byron owned a pet bear while he was at Cambridge University because the rules said that dogs were not allowed.
* The glow from six firefly insects provides enough light to read a book.
* British poet George Bernard Shaw was 29 years old when he lost his virginity to an elderly widow. This event traumatized him so much that he didn’t have sex for another 15 years.
* Hans Christian Andersen was so terrified of being killed in a fire that he always carried a piece of rope with him wherever he went so that he could escape any building that was alight.
* When the poet Rosetti’s wife died he decided to bury his book of poems with her. Seven years later he changed his mind and decided that he wanted them back, so he arranged for the grave to be opened, removed the book of poems, and had them disinfected. They were later published to great acclaim.