<p>Our son will be coming home soon from his internship.</p>
<p>I think that it has been a great experience where he’s had to work hard with other great students and where they’ve provided a fair amount of recreational things for the students to partake of. It has provided a good taste of the working world and he’s had to deal with a lot of things on his own with different logistical problems than he has been used to.</p>
<p>He also has a bulging savings account now. And a few nice lines to add to his resume.</p>
<p>What are your kids saying about their internships as they start to wind down?</p>
<p>D’s internship is in our hometown. She is anxious and excited today because her department chair from her college is coming up today to meet with her internship supervisor to discuss how things have gone and to take D out to lunch - how cool is that?</p>
<p>D is very attached to the people she met and to the organization she is working for. She said it will be difficult to just leave it - she feels invested. Guess that is all good. :)</p>
<p>My interns are leaving after next week. This is the first year I have summer interns. One of them I particularily like because of his work ethic. At first I thought it was a crazy idea, but I have decided to keep him on as a part time employee when he goes back to school. He will be 4 hours away, but we have a lot of people working from home via remote access. This intern will be making very good salary while he is going to school. It makes sense for us because he is doing work otherwise would be done by other higher paying staff. We have trained him for 3 months, it is worth our while to get some benefit out of it. </p>
<p>My daughter is in Australia studying this semester, but found she has a lot more time on her hand than she had before. She contacted her previous summer employer to ask if she could work on some projects for her. Most of her work was done on computer, she used to do most of it out of our house. Her employer was happy to give her some work.</p>
<p>In today’s day and age, a lot of work could be done outside of office. When summer internship ends, it may be worth it to approach the employer to see if you could do some work remotely.</p>
<p>S’s internship is on an unusual schedule,he just started it last week…its for an NFL football team. It’ll keep him busy beyond words until afew days after Fall classes start,in order to stay for the first preseason home game (hes staying with permission of his dep’t).He’s loving every minute,he’s hit the bigtime!!</p>
<p>its a related internship from his major (Sports Management),Houston Texans
It took 9 months to secure and came through just when he gave up on ever getting a definitive answer.Its his second one…first was minor league baseball and lots of other event management/hospitality experience.You really have to persevere.</p>
<p>Ours comes home tomorrow!!! Happy dance! (Then leaves for school a week later.) </p>
<p>This has been good for him: the corporation and the culture are quite different from that which he experienced with his other internships. I trust that he’s in better shape to make the next set of choices because of it.</p>
<p>abasket
let me know if you need info for your S on the major or schools.S will be a senior and we’ve become pretty knowledgeable over the years!
I’ll tell you if your S is serious, have him try for employment in H.S. with some sort of sports theme…S was a timekeeper/scorekeeper in a hockey league, then was a gameday ticket seller for minor league baseball while in H.S. When he applies for college, the powers that be will like that sort of paid experience.</p>
<p>Consider asking your supervisor for a generic “To Whom It May Concern” letter of recommendation. This may sound as though you’re asking your boss to go to a lot of fuss, but in fact it’s a lot less bother for the boss than calling him or her a dozen times during the year to ask for recommendations for specific jobs. Some bosses will even have a conversation with you about what you would like them to emphasize in the letter. This is your chance to get a letter of recommendation that is skewed in the direction you want. For example, if your internship involved administrative work at a political organization, do you want the letter to emphasize your dedication to the political cause or the new office skills you picked up on the job? You can probably have it either way. You only need to ask. </p>
<p>When you get the letter of recommendation, go find a flash drive, and take the letter and flash drive to your local FedEx Office store. Ask them to scan the letter, make a pdf, and copy the pdf onto your flash drive. It costs about a dollar a page and makes it possible for you to enclose the letter of recommendation with online applications.</p>
<p>Also, if you did any writing during your internship, ask your supervisor if it’s OK to use any of it as a writing sample when applying for future jobs. You probably signed a confidentiality agreement, so you shouldn’t circulate samples of your work without your employer’s permission (unless the written material was published in a place where anyone can see it, such as on a Web site), but even with a confidentiality agreement in place, your employer may say yes.</p>
<p>32 months after the fact: D left her internship knowing that she and the world of D.C. were a good fit. She could both detail why most other interns weren’t and why she was. </p>
<p>Fast forward to 18 months more of college and 14 months of her first job, complete with a generous raise after one year, and she’s doing smashingly, accumulating some nice co-authorships on public papers put out by her non-profit. She found where she fit and has gone for it.</p>
<p>I am so happy for her that some people can’t stand me. Well, it’s probably for other reasons…</p>
<p>BC, if you have to explain a joke, it’s not funny.</p>
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<p>The normal is, “…so happy I can’t stand it.”</p>
<p>But some enthusiasms…and I was recently afflicted with the word “zeal”…are sometimes difficult for others to take, especially of said enthusiast is perceived of being enthusiastic to the point of being obnoxious.</p>
<p>Like I said, if you have to explain 'em…</p>
<p>(irony meters often malfunction on the internet)</p>
<p>Our student will be returning home in about a week after an internship in Houston as well. It has truly been a learning experience–cooking, paying rent, laundry (nice office clothes, not jeans) and learning to navigate in a big city as well as learning about a career. All in all a life-learning experience that has proven to pad the bank account as well! We are all very grateful for the internship op and esp that it was a paid internship. We are just hoping that this will lead to full-time employment next spring/summer!!!</p>
<p>I am nearing the end of my internship this summer. I am with an independent minor league baseball team here in the St. Louis area (you can see the Arch from left field). It has been a great experience. The team isn’t very good, but the learning that has taken place is excellent! And I’ve had some interesting times being in the clubhouse with the team and all. </p>
<p>Hopefully next summer I can get one with an NFL team during training camp Started writing cover letters tonight! ;)</p>
Started writing cover letters tonight! ;)</p>