Secrets
I won’t say my mid-term critique for thesis went great – but the committee was helpful. I am far away from my starting point and close at the same time.
I would like to tell a little secret now:
I was hired at C2 twice. The first time was a little more then two years ago. I accepted the position, but called back the next day after I was offered another position that paid more and was fewer hours. It was a hard decision to make as C2 seemed to combine business and design together in a way I didn’t know existed.
By the time school started I knew I had made a mistake. Not because the job I had taken was bad, but because I realized there were things I could learn at C2 that I wasn’t sure I could learn anywhere else. So when a friend let me know that his internship at C2 had ended and they were looking for someone new I asked if he would put in a good word for me.
I went through the agonizing process of trying to decide when and if I should tell C2 that they had hired me before. Even though it was a small company and I was interviewed by some of the same people who interviewed me the first time, they didn’t remember me and I didn’t exactly tell them. It didn’t come out until about four weeks after my internship started – not a fact that I am proud of. But I am grateful that they didn’t throw me out on my ass. It was embarrassing but in the end worth the risk.
I have heard several times now from my professors that maybe if I had worked at some other firm, I wouldn’t be doing my thesis on this subject. The reason I wrote about it is because my thesis topic wasn’t dictated by the random chance of me working at C2. Rather it was a conscious decision I took to inform myself about the options I had when I got out into the work force.
When I was in college the first time I didn’t realize how important it was that I take steps to educated myself beyond what I was learning at school until it was too late. I promised myself I wouldn’t make that mistake again. So now I am in a quest to figure out what I’ve got myself into and to find a way to combine my education and skills into a job. If I could help broaden someone else’s horizon what a great bonus it would be.
I would like to tell a little secret now:
I was hired at C2 twice. The first time was a little more then two years ago. I accepted the position, but called back the next day after I was offered another position that paid more and was fewer hours. It was a hard decision to make as C2 seemed to combine business and design together in a way I didn’t know existed.
By the time school started I knew I had made a mistake. Not because the job I had taken was bad, but because I realized there were things I could learn at C2 that I wasn’t sure I could learn anywhere else. So when a friend let me know that his internship at C2 had ended and they were looking for someone new I asked if he would put in a good word for me.
I went through the agonizing process of trying to decide when and if I should tell C2 that they had hired me before. Even though it was a small company and I was interviewed by some of the same people who interviewed me the first time, they didn’t remember me and I didn’t exactly tell them. It didn’t come out until about four weeks after my internship started – not a fact that I am proud of. But I am grateful that they didn’t throw me out on my ass. It was embarrassing but in the end worth the risk.
I have heard several times now from my professors that maybe if I had worked at some other firm, I wouldn’t be doing my thesis on this subject. The reason I wrote about it is because my thesis topic wasn’t dictated by the random chance of me working at C2. Rather it was a conscious decision I took to inform myself about the options I had when I got out into the work force.
When I was in college the first time I didn’t realize how important it was that I take steps to educated myself beyond what I was learning at school until it was too late. I promised myself I wouldn’t make that mistake again. So now I am in a quest to figure out what I’ve got myself into and to find a way to combine my education and skills into a job. If I could help broaden someone else’s horizon what a great bonus it would be.
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