Hello again.
I hope everyone has had a fantastic summer~
I know I left off yesterday saying I would work more on the glass exhibit today, but that didn't happen. All the information was too muddled and confused, so Scott put that on hold and I was front desk instead. My other supervisor, Kathy, bought me a lovely ice cream cake to celebrate my last day. She's wonderful and I'm going to miss her.
For my summary of my summer, I'm going to try to focus on the positives, so this post will be fairly short.
As I have mentioned before in an earlier post, the majority of the staff I worked with was amazing. I loved coming in to work to see them, they're genuinely great people and great fun. I'm going to miss them.
I'm also quite happy with what I was able to do, which was a decent amount. I was able to help hang an exhibit, unbox another, filled condition reports, led a few tours, cleaned several sculptures, do all the tasks related to the front desk, and a few other things (mostly involving cleaning to be honest). I enjoyed everything I did, though many times I would have preferred for things to have been handled somewhat differently.
On a less positive note (yes, I know I said I'd focus on positives, but this felt important) I do not really feel like I've learned all that much. Though I had been told my experience from my time at the UNT Student Union Gallery was meaningless, I learned a lot there. One of the things I learned while there was how to hang and deal with lights, so I didn't get to 'learn' how to do it at the MBA. Front desk duties are pretty common, I know how to answer phones, deal with customers, handle cash, and so on. In a few other cases, which I feel it would be wrong to go too deep in such a public way, what I learned felt.. wrong? Like I was being taught the incorrect things, things you should not do. I feel bad for even typing such a thing on such a public post, but I don't want y'all to get the wrong impression either, that everything was all rosy and lovely when it wasn't.
Again, I loved almost everyone there! So many great people. And I got to do quite a bit! But.. yea.
It's over. That chapter is finished.
Looking on the bright side, it is great that you can look critically at a situation and know what you DON'T want in a future job. And, if that is all that you got out of this internship (and meeting some great people... ice cream cake on your last day!? That is a good supervisor!) at the end of the day, it is a very valuable lesson. Sometimes, knowing what we don't want is as important as knowing what we do want. You know now what to look out for when/before you interview with a place and you also know to do your due diligence! Before accepting a job, talk to the rest of the staff you'd be working with and get their honest assessment of their colleagues. You get to decide if you accept the job or not, in the end!
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