1) How was your work as an intern meaningful to your education?
Well for starters I am learning what it takes to work in the real world and in a "high stakes" environment, some of the work I am doing directly effects how my mentors work such as driving in more traffic on their website so that they can get more leads and thus make more money. Though that is just one way my work effects how my mentor works, sometimes I have to do something before my mentor can do their thing because theirs depends on mine. So as you can see I am keeping up with the work and am learning great things about what it takes to manage a business. Overall this internship is meaningful because it teaches me hard work and the steps necessary to mange a business.
2) How did you make a meaningful contribution to your workplace?
This question sort of ties into the previous one. I have made a meaningful contribution to the workplace because most of my work involves getting more leads to my mentors in the best ways possible. This means doing extensive research on those ways and implementing them to what my office does. For starters I worked on the SEO of our website which my mentor has told me has hand a jump in visitors. Next I have begun to work on the overall social media aspect of our office. This idea I already had coming in but it was greatly amplified by Gary Vee in a book of his that I read (very good book for business one of the best I recommend it, called #AskGaryVee) it offers much advice for people up and coming in the business world as well as for people who have large business already. Through most of his book he stresses the importance of social media when running a business or trying to interact or gain costumers and tells reader how to execute it properly. A great resource for the social media aspect of our office.
3) How did your view of life beyond high school change or develop during your time as an intern?
This is a big one for me as in most of the things I do I always believe myself the best at it or at least the best at learning about it and betting myself in it. This is something I definitely have put into my internship and something I have put more thought into as of late. As many of my friends know I want to join the Navy and make a career out of it, that's pretty much the whole story. Except this internship has changed things, now I want to start my own business and turn it into a very large very wealthy corporation. My skill set is there I just need to focus on it alone and get it done, easy? No. But that doesn't really matter because if it is the only thing I am constantly pouring my energy into 15 hours a day, I will be able to do it. That being said this internship has changed my outlook on the future to business and working very hard on a day to day business to be one of the best in the world when it comes to the size of my company both financially and overall amount of product / employees. Overall to me it sounds like a plan and I'm glad this internship has shown this too me.
4) What new questions has your internship inspired you to ask about our world? What has it made you wonder about? What are you moved to go out and do or learn about on your own time?
Well this answer might seem a bit rude or distasteful, but how come everyone is so lazy? This is what my internship has taught me about the world. Not because the people in my office are lazy (they are actually the exact opposite) but because my mentor has taught me much about working hard and making money and working for your passion I find it hard to imagine people who sit at home all day doing nothing when the opportunities are out there waiting for them. For example Gary Vee (I know I've mentioned him before but he is a good example for the point I am making) he was brought to the U.S. from Soviet Russia and had a mother who loved communism, they had no money and no where to go when they got here. His father started a small wine business, which when Gary took command he turned into a multi million dollar company from virtually nothing. He now own multiple 50 million + companies. Yet he started from a very very bad position and he is still going on strong. So anyways the point I am trying to make here is that It is all about the work and the product, if you do it all the time and people like it and get behind it you can do it, and to get people to like it you have to do the work they want. In my own time I plan to start making money and pushing toward staring a business of some sort, starting with possibly taking a job at Berkshire Hathaway during the summer as a IT person. Though my "dreams" seem quite large I tend to think of that as the point of dream, so despite the whatever the odds may be, I answered the question so lets see what happens.
Well for starters I am learning what it takes to work in the real world and in a "high stakes" environment, some of the work I am doing directly effects how my mentors work such as driving in more traffic on their website so that they can get more leads and thus make more money. Though that is just one way my work effects how my mentor works, sometimes I have to do something before my mentor can do their thing because theirs depends on mine. So as you can see I am keeping up with the work and am learning great things about what it takes to manage a business. Overall this internship is meaningful because it teaches me hard work and the steps necessary to mange a business.
2) How did you make a meaningful contribution to your workplace?
This question sort of ties into the previous one. I have made a meaningful contribution to the workplace because most of my work involves getting more leads to my mentors in the best ways possible. This means doing extensive research on those ways and implementing them to what my office does. For starters I worked on the SEO of our website which my mentor has told me has hand a jump in visitors. Next I have begun to work on the overall social media aspect of our office. This idea I already had coming in but it was greatly amplified by Gary Vee in a book of his that I read (very good book for business one of the best I recommend it, called #AskGaryVee) it offers much advice for people up and coming in the business world as well as for people who have large business already. Through most of his book he stresses the importance of social media when running a business or trying to interact or gain costumers and tells reader how to execute it properly. A great resource for the social media aspect of our office.
3) How did your view of life beyond high school change or develop during your time as an intern?
This is a big one for me as in most of the things I do I always believe myself the best at it or at least the best at learning about it and betting myself in it. This is something I definitely have put into my internship and something I have put more thought into as of late. As many of my friends know I want to join the Navy and make a career out of it, that's pretty much the whole story. Except this internship has changed things, now I want to start my own business and turn it into a very large very wealthy corporation. My skill set is there I just need to focus on it alone and get it done, easy? No. But that doesn't really matter because if it is the only thing I am constantly pouring my energy into 15 hours a day, I will be able to do it. That being said this internship has changed my outlook on the future to business and working very hard on a day to day business to be one of the best in the world when it comes to the size of my company both financially and overall amount of product / employees. Overall to me it sounds like a plan and I'm glad this internship has shown this too me.
4) What new questions has your internship inspired you to ask about our world? What has it made you wonder about? What are you moved to go out and do or learn about on your own time?
Well this answer might seem a bit rude or distasteful, but how come everyone is so lazy? This is what my internship has taught me about the world. Not because the people in my office are lazy (they are actually the exact opposite) but because my mentor has taught me much about working hard and making money and working for your passion I find it hard to imagine people who sit at home all day doing nothing when the opportunities are out there waiting for them. For example Gary Vee (I know I've mentioned him before but he is a good example for the point I am making) he was brought to the U.S. from Soviet Russia and had a mother who loved communism, they had no money and no where to go when they got here. His father started a small wine business, which when Gary took command he turned into a multi million dollar company from virtually nothing. He now own multiple 50 million + companies. Yet he started from a very very bad position and he is still going on strong. So anyways the point I am trying to make here is that It is all about the work and the product, if you do it all the time and people like it and get behind it you can do it, and to get people to like it you have to do the work they want. In my own time I plan to start making money and pushing toward staring a business of some sort, starting with possibly taking a job at Berkshire Hathaway during the summer as a IT person. Though my "dreams" seem quite large I tend to think of that as the point of dream, so despite the whatever the odds may be, I answered the question so lets see what happens.