Oh no, not another intern blog. You always hear those stories about the naive “young professional” that decides that their tales of coffee runs and filing are the next story to hit the top WordPress blog roll. Then they make the unfortunate mistake of calling their boss out or blogging instead of working (wait, not all people blog at their jobs?) or giving away company secrets. Not good. This is not one of those blogs.
Today I learned how to be crafty.
The old addage, “you learn something new everyday,” is terrible cliche, but all the more true the older I get. And I do love learning. About random things (Cafe Scientifique) and professional things (YPC events) and intriguing trivia (Des Moines Social Club Team Trivia) and mundane things (life in general). I like people whose eyes light up when they begin to speak on a certain topic, those who have a different point of view, those with different lifestyles and goals. I highly enjoy learning culture from people in coffee shops, how to drive stick-shift from reckless racers and how to start-up an LLC from someone my own age.
This euphemism is all the more believable here interning at Lessing-Flynn. The wonderful thing about agency work is that you are surrounded by people who are excellent at what they do, and seemingly like it, or they wouldn’t work here. Just being in this environment allows for some spectacular real-world knowledge. For example, last week I learned that I’m just as terrible at cutting with anything - scissors, that edge of the tape dispenser, exacta knives – as I was when the kindergarden teacher would send me home with cutting sheets to practice on. I’ve learned that you can garner many an idea from watching random YouTube videos and that sushi is a connector food. Log splitters are interesting in their own right and even online events take months of planning. To be able to look back at all these experiences and string them together to form a sort of “choose-your-own-adventure.” A running total of ponderings will be posted at the tenure of this chapter, which will hopefully be later than sooner (if they still want to keep me for a while). One that I can look back and read easily, relearn a few things and maybe a few others can relate to.
