After four
summers of part-time jobs landscaping people’s yards, and folding clothes at
the mall, I am finally starting my first real internship and I am excited and
nervous at the same time. I am excited, because I feel like I am finally
beginning to take the final steps towards adulthood, and the first steps
towards my future. I know that the experiences I get from working at the LACD are invaluable, and are going to be a great foundation for the
path that my life will take me on. I am also excited about the team that I will
be working with this summer, and the projects we will be working on, especially
being a project manager for the Professional Pathways newsletter!
These new
experiences can also very nerve-racking! The thought of the success or failure
of a project, because of the decisions I make can be stressful, and I am also
nervous because this will also be a sort of “test” of how my abilities are
transferred from class to my work. Since I just picked up Professional Writing
as a major a year ago, I feel the extra pressure to test my limits and see what
I truly like and what I am good at. Although I am nervous, the excitement I
feel is balancing it out. I guess that the nerves I am feeling right now are
just the same as the anticipation you get when you are going up a
rollercoaster. When you get to the top you feel your stomach ball up, and for a
split second all your “worst-case” scenarios race through your mind, but when
you are heading down all that stress lets go and it makes the fall that much
sweeter.
Right now I am
at the top of the roller coaster and looking out at what my summer will be
like, and although I know that I will be working hard and pushing myself, the
knowledge and experiences I will get from this internship are going to be worth
the “fall”.
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