My first days as a j. intern — so far, so good

As a college student, I made my living making other people’s coffee. Last fall however, I had enough with snobby students and the moody espresso maker.

Unemployed for about a year, I promised myself that the next job I found would be related to my major and future career goals. I am proud to say that the temporary, here-and-there jobs I had were indeed related to my profession. Yet, none were long-term.

Finally this summer I found an internship with j. My mom always said, as long as you for it, you will find it. Right again, Mom…

The first day on the job was fairly relaxed as my supervisor introduced me to the staff. After introductions, I was assigned the following tasks: I wrote “shorts” — a strictly informational blurb (three or four sentences) — on new support group and an upcoming event. I never knew so many mistakes could be made in just a few sentences.

I then was assigned a longer article on an award-winning program at the local JCC for which I had to conduct a phone interview. The amount of feedback I received on my first draft puts my Berkeley professors’ comments on my papers to shame.

Now it is a good time to go back and add a few questions that came to mind for an interview that I will be sitting in on After thinking my filled notepad grew legs and ran away, I find that such a phenomenon is still very much impossible — and my questions are staring right in front of me. — j. intern Yelena Tsurkan

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