I was having one of those moments where you just think to yourself, I suck and I'm never going to get anywhere. I haven't really made any friends as an intern. Everyone is lovely, but I'm not even remotely on anyone's radar. I'm just an intern. I slip into a different desk one day a week and, while everyone else who actually works there catches up, I silently wonder, if I was a more confident person would I be networking and getting ahead already?
The thing is I'm not pushy. It's not that I'm shy, it's just that I prefer getting to know people one on one. I can't walk into a room full of strangers and instantly be the centre of attention and I have trouble asserting myself even when I know it would benefit me. I guess my thing is more put your head down, work hard and hope someone notices.
I was a little bummed when I saw the first copy of the mag I had helped work on, because all the things I'd written hadn't been used. It must have been all wrong if they did't use a scrap of it! Five minutes later though I got an email from my editor who'd looked over what I'd been working on that day and it was better news, I'm doing well and will get to come help out the next photo shoot they do (yay!). I guess it will take time for me to learn how to write in the style they like and adjust to how everything needs to be done. Hell, I didn't even do a media degree, so this is all new, but (*warning* this is going to be lame) that's kind of what makes it awesome as well.
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