Work Experience

February 16, 2013

This is something totally unrelated to my day. But I feel the need to blog about it. I mean, it's a shame I didn't blog about it while it was happening. Oh well. As the tittle gives it away, this post is going to be about my experiences during work experiences. Or, "internship" to sound sophisticated!

Since I'm getting on a time machine back to July 2012, this is not going to be specific. I apologize. Wait. Why am I apologizing? Ummm yeah, it's going to be one large summary rather than specific experiences because I don't think I have the time or patience.

I had the opportunity to intern at Media Expertise International. I and another kid from my class was selected but he totally ditched after a week and another girl replaced him. Yup. That's a long story. I might tell you that later!

Anyways, we were supposed to intern for Harpers Bazaar Magazine but because it was all in Thai we moved to Prestige Magazine. There are about 8 magazines under this company but Prestige is the only English one.

What did we do there, people may ask? Well. Not make coffee! This was something my little sister kept on teasing me about. We made photocopies though. We did random and stupid things: watching movies, eating 7-11 junk in the corner, and what not! We even had a nickname for one of the worker: style.com Plus, we went on an interview with an upcoming singer Dara Loy. The messed up thing was that she was 25 but we looked older than her!

I have one story to tell. We were also made to go pay some bills at a studio and had to go by motorbike to avoid traffic. We got lost and had to walk around asking people for the way until we finally found the place. That was kind of like an epic adventure!

The most important thing that we did there, however, was write an article that was featured in the September issue of the magazine! The Spa and Savor Column that we contributed too were also featured! It felt awesome seeing my name on the magazine!

Needless to say, this was an amazing experience for me. I learnt so much in 5 weeks! I feel so fortunate that I've gotten this chance as I realize not everybody does.

The end.

No wait. It's not the end! I haven't gotten my letter of recommendation yet! That's another long story. I guess I need another post regarding this! We'll see.

Will be back soon,
S.