Ok so clearly I have been terrible recently with keeping up with blogging but I have been unbelievably busy with not a moment of down time! From my internship, to my part-time job at Tory Burch, I have not had a day off since I started. Almost 2 months! Needless to say, I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed and crunched for time and not to mention exhausted but things are starting to pick up at Flare and I am pretty excited. My internship started off with the typical intern duties – cleaning our gift bags and samples closet, couriering magazines and product to brands and the media, expenses for my managers and running errands. The other day I had to deliver a legal document and when I got there, was told that it was missing an important piece of information and of course I couldn’t get in touch with my manager because she was in a meeting so the man then slammed the door in my face. I headed back to the office, expecting to be sent back later to fix it, on top of all the other tasks I had to complete by the end of the day. I stayed late to finish up my work and rushed out the door to deliver the legal document before the man left. Mission complete. This isn’t what I am excited about of course but stay tuned, I will share what I have been working on and will continue working on shortly.
At lunch, a few of the interns and I try and find the time to squeeze in a quick bite together and get away from our desks (this is not including running errands for our editors). Our chats usually include office gossip and complaining about being broke. We motivate each other to keep going because we’re in it together. I leave you with a key piece of advice from one of my fellow interns, “To survive here, don’t ask questions. But if you must, then ask everyone but the one person that has the direct answer.” Words of intern survival.
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