Unlike Ed’s interns #3 and #4 who are touring London and enjoying the final weeks of summer as normal, overworked college students should, I’m cooped up in my cubicle trying to complete a slew of writing assignments just given to me by my web editor. Now I’m truly feeling the effect of doing two internships at once.
Yesterday, myself, the department’s other intern, my immediate boss and the editorial director had a pitch meeting, in which we needed to come up with 10 or so story ideas that’ll launch on the website in the fall. Talk about intimidating—the other intern and I took turns verbally pitching our ideas, which we had two weeks to come up with, stating what exactly we wanted to write about, how we would go about doing it and for which section of the website we think it’d work best.
The good news—the editors loved our pitches and were raving at how detailed, innovative, and creative they were. The bad news—I’m overwhelmed with stuff to do as the deadlines for the stories are quickly approaching. Homework during the summer is not what I signed up for.
But hey, I should be happy that I’m getting so much responsibility and actually have a workload to complain about. And since some of the assignments are due at the end of August when my internship will have already ended, I’m getting paid the freelancers rate for those pieces.
And even though it doesn’t look like I’ll be going on any much-needed vacations any time soon, I guess a couple hundred bucks in my empty pockets and a couple of clips in my portfolio beats a golden tan, right?
Any of you feel overwhelmed at your internships?
--Ed’s Intern #1
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