Wow. It’s
come to that time in the semester where my internship is moving along, and Uni
is coming to that busy time… and safe to say I’m definitely feeling the
pressure of everything at the moment. As much as I am absolutely loving the
intern life I feel like I am experiencing such an abnormally large amount of workload
that I am now thinking this unit may have strategically intended for me to
experience to show me ‘life in the real world’. Never the less I am working
tirelessly to balance the factors of my Uni work, family and friends in
addition to my usual work roster.
As I am
nearly at the end of my internship, I thought that I would reflect on the
things that I most enjoyed during my time there. This experience has given me
the opportunity to compare all elements of the field that I am in. Comparing
the events, marketing and public relations side of my internship it’s able to
tell me which things I loved doing the most in a way that I was able to see a
real life experience of them all. Originally I definitely stereotyped myself as
an events girl. I specifically steered my internship towards an events
dominated business in order to experience exactly what events people do.
Instead, after being involved with their events and their public relations
processes I find myself being pulled more towards the public relations side of
their business.
I was
allocated several tasks to complete such as media releases, blogs and different
jobs that allow me to portray their organisation to the public. At first I
thought that this was definitely my downfall. I would always cringe when I
would first be allocated the PR related task- though of course I would never let
this show on my face.
As time went
on and I found myself being given these jobs more often, I actually found that
I was really good at them, and I became quite confident in that field. I
already felt quite confident in the field of events- so it was nice to be given
the opportunity to increase my experience and my confidence in this different
field.
When it came to emailing over yet another media release and a
list of suggested headlines- their response was ‘wow, see you’re so good at this’. I
feel like from this comment they could definitely sense my nervous vibe when
they first allocated me this type of task, and now I’m seriously glad they
didn’t care, and took a chance by giving it to me.
This
experience has actually taught me to embrace the chance and love the strange.
It has opened my eyes to fields of work that I didn’t even want to experience
and allowed me to see that I am actually good at these tasks, even though at
the start I never even wanted to see if I liked it. It’s brought me away from my
comfort zone and I’m glad for that as I never would have known one of my
biggest strengths without the lessons that this experience has taught me.
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