I sit in my car driving towards Asia after my final day of summer internship finishes. I am listening to “Why Don't You Get A Job” by The Offspring and the title of song hits me hard. Why didn't I get a summer job before? Why did I wait until it became an assignment to finally do it. The fact that I loved my internship and that I felt so comfortable helps a lot, yet I regret not having done it before.
I recall when I told Corey about doing my internship at my fathers plastic factory, and I saw he was skeptic about it because working at my dad’s made it loose credibility but I decided to still do it. However, knowing Corey’s concerns I decided to tell my dad I did not even want to see him during my office hours. I saw him three times a day when I got in and said “Hi” if I ever needed the bathroom and when I said “goodbye.” This made me feel as if I had real value in the company because I was not just following my father around like a baby, but instead actually taking matters into my own hands.
The first days the workers were shy towards me but as they saw I was not afraid to get my hands dirty they took me in as one of them, and I got to see a side of the company that I would not have ever experienced at a different place. They invited me to play soccer on Tuesday nights with them after work, asked me to go and have lunch with them so we could keep talking business and the future of the company. The amount of inside stories and information I got from my peers was invaluable, and if I had been working at an outside company, I would have only dreamt of having this types of conversations.
Thanks to my experience I have learned the reality of running a business how what seems simple from the outside is actually complex and completely unpredictable. Some factors are unpredictable and almost impossible to control that affect the productivity and how the company performs. So now that I look back at my experience I am pleased to have had the courage to go and work in my father’s factory because it is thanks to that experience that I have really understood step 1 of how a business works.
I recall when I told Corey about doing my internship at my fathers plastic factory, and I saw he was skeptic about it because working at my dad’s made it loose credibility but I decided to still do it. However, knowing Corey’s concerns I decided to tell my dad I did not even want to see him during my office hours. I saw him three times a day when I got in and said “Hi” if I ever needed the bathroom and when I said “goodbye.” This made me feel as if I had real value in the company because I was not just following my father around like a baby, but instead actually taking matters into my own hands.
The first days the workers were shy towards me but as they saw I was not afraid to get my hands dirty they took me in as one of them, and I got to see a side of the company that I would not have ever experienced at a different place. They invited me to play soccer on Tuesday nights with them after work, asked me to go and have lunch with them so we could keep talking business and the future of the company. The amount of inside stories and information I got from my peers was invaluable, and if I had been working at an outside company, I would have only dreamt of having this types of conversations.
Thanks to my experience I have learned the reality of running a business how what seems simple from the outside is actually complex and completely unpredictable. Some factors are unpredictable and almost impossible to control that affect the productivity and how the company performs. So now that I look back at my experience I am pleased to have had the courage to go and work in my father’s factory because it is thanks to that experience that I have really understood step 1 of how a business works.