I have an intern. She started today. She doesn’t really have a set schedule, she doesn’t get paid and she’s only around for a couple of weeks but I now have an intern.
It was a little weird sitting down with her today to converse about what she currently knows, what she wants to learn and what she wants to do post-baccalaureate. She will graduate from a major university in 3 year’s time with a 4.0 GPA. She really doesn’t know much about my industry but I hope to at least get her a glimpse over the next couple of weeks. We’ll see.
Since I don’t regularly drink coffee that option is off the table for things to provide her to do. Other than that I’m not really sure.
After explaining to me that she’d like to explore the creative end of what I do I sent her out with a mission. Armed with my camera her goal is to take pictures. I don’t care what she takes pictures of – rocks, people, rain or cars – it doesn’t matter to me. All that matters to me is that she takes pictures. Lots of them. In the hundreds. I am hoping this will help us both to see where her creativity lies. I want to see what she sees when she looks at something. (more…)
Thankfully, not being employed by corporate America resolves most of my dealings with long meetings. If it did, I would invest in some of the following.
I’ve officially been published. With a subscriber count of over 30k, Freelance Switch is one of the largest Freelancer websites and communities on the web. Yesterday I received notice that an article I had written for them had been green-lighted and published to the site. Being both fan and subscriber to the site I was excited to see it happen.
One thing I would ask, I love feedback and comments but to ever have a chance of writing again I would prefer any responses left there be kept professional. Singling me out as your neighbor, cousin or son followed by “whoo hoo, I knew you could do it” or “you got ‘er dun” would seriously restrict my chances of ever writing for someone else again. Similarly, if you’ve ever acted in a similar fashion in front of your kids and their friends in any situation, you should be reprimanded.
If you’ve got the time, there’s a pretty fantastic thread with recommendations of life upgrades over at Meta Filter. Lots of stuff I can’t afford to buy but it is interesting to see what others place value in. My wife wants a Dyson, as I read through I saw both some for and against. Was hoping for recommendations one way or the other.
It’s especially useful read now that we are in a confirmed recession and layoffs are happening every day. /sarcasm
I attempted to post this earlier in the day and just realized I created it as a page. Sure did mess up my navigation. Some Internet goodness from today:
