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It isn’t easy being an intern. You have to make 10 gallons of tea a day, answer the phone to strange people, and go to the shop whenever anybody wants tasty baked goods. All of this and you don’t even get paid! But even though you are effectively the office bitch, it’s also pretty cool. Here are the reasons I enjoy being an intern the most:

You don’t get paid so nobody expects much of you. That way, when you do something good, people are amazed. When you do something wrong, it was expected because you’re just the unpaid moron

You’re young and cool, so people ask your opinion on music, clothes, knife crime and who to buy weed off

You get to do the ‘boring’ jobs that actually turn out to be fun. Like cutting out, sticking and colouring in. It’s like being at primary school again

At the end of the week you get taken to the pub and bought drinks. When you’ve been at Uni for 3 years, this kind of generosity comes as a pleasant shock

When you go to the shop you get to buy loads of baked goods for yourself too

They teach you loads of cool stuff that you never knew before. Since being an intern I’ve learnt: how printing works, how to proof read properly, how to write HTML, how to get quotes, how to exploit your suppliers, and how lots of little decimal points add up to one large sum of cashish. I also learnt loads of cool new-media phrases, like: ‘do it again, but good this time’, ‘bloody student’ and ‘thats coming out of your salary’.’

Being an intern rules, but unfortunately it doesn’t last forever. Soon I will start getting paid, and with pay comes responsibility. I should start behaving more like a media type, maybe I can use some of that money to buy some square rimmed glasses and an ironic t-shirt…

Tags: Brightenup, Inspiring, Intern, Tom

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