Who said it was easy?
Carla Paulette Botello
Final Statement
I walk the few steps from the printer to my office, with the printed final newsletter draft. The soft thuds of my feet, growing louder as I skip towards our office area. I feel so proud of my work; I had gone through creating different drafts, researching and making calls to coding experts, to finally create a Summer Newsletter informing the community about activities available in local Recreation Centers. I slide it underneath Wendi’s wooden door -hearing she was in the middle of a call- and quickly retreat to my office starting to plan on different ways to finish the rest of the tasks my mentor had asked me to accomplish. Just a few minutes later, the soft ding of my computer informs me of a new email. I wiggle my mouse to wake up my computer and I quickly open the email, waiting for it to be an approval to finally send it to our ACTIVE Net customers. After I read the first few sentences, I realized there were still plenty new revisions to be made. I needed to work my way up -starting from my mentor and the Recreation Administration staff- until receiving approval and feedback from the Recreation Director, Kristi.
I felt a little discouraged in the beginning, -the process of even thinking for an original idea was tiring- but it was then when I realized that these were the kind of situations I would encounter in my life. These were things that had to be done in order to create a long lasting, creative work. The process went on for a while, until I received feedback from the majority of administration staff. Each staff member sent me critique, and when I was done with those refinements, I had to email it to them once again to double check they were the correct ones, When the final critique from Kristi came, I felt a weight lift of my shoulders -I had finally done it! My more than 30 hour newsletter was finished and ready to send.
As tiring as it felt having to redo and change many things, I learn many things which I will take on with me for my future career. Even though I learn a various of things throughout my time as an intern, the following are the ones I feel are the most important: critique is always helpful, and strong mindset and willingness can get you far in your work and in life. Feedback is always obliging to create professional outcomes, we wouldn’t want to send out unprofessional and poor pieces of work to people you want to be more interested in participating. I also had the opportunity to learn that hard work and a willingness to work throughout hardships, always pays off in the end.
Imagine if things were just easy, then our feeling of accomplishments wouldn’t feel all that great; but by having some rocky part of the road, we are able to truly appreciate the green pasture in the end. I encountered my green pasture after sending our Summer Newsletter to short of 12,000 people and receiving several compliments from professional staff members. The rocky road was completely worth the view.
Final Statement
I walk the few steps from the printer to my office, with the printed final newsletter draft. The soft thuds of my feet, growing louder as I skip towards our office area. I feel so proud of my work; I had gone through creating different drafts, researching and making calls to coding experts, to finally create a Summer Newsletter informing the community about activities available in local Recreation Centers. I slide it underneath Wendi’s wooden door -hearing she was in the middle of a call- and quickly retreat to my office starting to plan on different ways to finish the rest of the tasks my mentor had asked me to accomplish. Just a few minutes later, the soft ding of my computer informs me of a new email. I wiggle my mouse to wake up my computer and I quickly open the email, waiting for it to be an approval to finally send it to our ACTIVE Net customers. After I read the first few sentences, I realized there were still plenty new revisions to be made. I needed to work my way up -starting from my mentor and the Recreation Administration staff- until receiving approval and feedback from the Recreation Director, Kristi.
I felt a little discouraged in the beginning, -the process of even thinking for an original idea was tiring- but it was then when I realized that these were the kind of situations I would encounter in my life. These were things that had to be done in order to create a long lasting, creative work. The process went on for a while, until I received feedback from the majority of administration staff. Each staff member sent me critique, and when I was done with those refinements, I had to email it to them once again to double check they were the correct ones, When the final critique from Kristi came, I felt a weight lift of my shoulders -I had finally done it! My more than 30 hour newsletter was finished and ready to send.
As tiring as it felt having to redo and change many things, I learn many things which I will take on with me for my future career. Even though I learn a various of things throughout my time as an intern, the following are the ones I feel are the most important: critique is always helpful, and strong mindset and willingness can get you far in your work and in life. Feedback is always obliging to create professional outcomes, we wouldn’t want to send out unprofessional and poor pieces of work to people you want to be more interested in participating. I also had the opportunity to learn that hard work and a willingness to work throughout hardships, always pays off in the end.
Imagine if things were just easy, then our feeling of accomplishments wouldn’t feel all that great; but by having some rocky part of the road, we are able to truly appreciate the green pasture in the end. I encountered my green pasture after sending our Summer Newsletter to short of 12,000 people and receiving several compliments from professional staff members. The rocky road was completely worth the view.