Friday, March 27, 2009

Struggling in internship

Recently I haven’t kept diary not because I’ve been very busy…
I just might have lost my motivation to keep it because basically keeping diary was for studying English and I started to feel some question it would be effective, but now I’ve begun to feel it would be useful again.

To reflect daily life is really important sometimes.
Recently I’ve felt as if I got lost and my goal is a bit vague now.
I’ve taken a place as an intern, but now I feel it is just working for free.
In the first place, I thought I could learn how to work in the UK, but actually my work is just maintaining the website. I don’t need to learn about it and it has nothing to do with my career. I expected I could get some experience of marketing and promotion work in this internship, but actually it is different from my expectation and I can’t realize that I learn something. What makes me keep going is that if I quit it now I learn nothing.
If I think positively, actually I’ve learned some things.

-Some artists don’t have basic IT skills to promote themselves and there are some opportunities.
-How the website is maintained.
-Basic strategy and structure of the company.

Anyway I should ask my boss a lot of questions. I still cannot see how great he is, but he must have some strong advantage. Any crowd has silver lining.

Communication is the most important thing to solve problems, I suppose. It is my motto at least.

This case is included in what I usually have some trouble. I think sometimes I don’t see the goal or purpose when I do something. Sometimes it’s ok because I can try new things quickly, but in most cases it turns out to be wasting time. Any experience could be a good experience if I can turn it into some lessons.