Skills you learn at your internship, but don't put on resume
 

Since the thread for "what not to put on your resume" is more professional, here's a fun one I was thinking about as I was interning this morning.

1-Excellent with a paper cutter - I can cut out mock ups with quickness and straight lines
2-mail meter queen - want your interns to send out 500 invitations, no problem, we actually can figure out to use the mail meter
3- copier's best friend - want that collated, stapled, and on multiple colored paper, no worries, we know the copier like the back of our hand thanks to your continual requests
4-computer knowledge - once again the generation gap at its finest, we can make that excel sheet add itself up and that word document finally line up, and it only took us two seconds
5-Coffee and bagel getter - we know that Monday is coffee and bagel day, so much that the people at the shops already know our order

I'm sure i could think of more, so please share your own stories.:)

Can set tab and indent on Word (seriously, no one else in my officce can do this)

Can add postage for 5 boxes of motions in head.

Can find any file and all of its attachments.

Can actually use the scanner, rather than just staring at it.

at my last job we used to make jokes about things I could put on my resume like

fast as lightning filer

experienced envelope stuffer - we did a 2000 piece mailing in about two days...

likable envelope licker - never have I licked so many envelopes in my life!!!



*edited for spelling

Man, that sucks!

I'm so thankful for my internships when I was in undergrad. The research I did in one internship actually helped my company get a patent, so I was very happy to have been a part of it.

Not to mention I aced most of my labs because I had learned everything in my internships!

Shoot... that's what I did at my paying job for 6 months. :rolleyes:

I'll also add along those lines: flyer and newsletter stuffer... for all those copied pieces that somehow all needed to be mailed at once but they were too cheap to get envelopes for. They guys in the back got really creative with the set up of this all. (I worked for a printer.)

This makes me really grateful for my internships.

I learned massive assertiveness! My first internship was with a politician who was up for election, and the very first day, he told me to buy a cheap, white "Vote for Jay" t-shirt to wear to the various campaign functions. I could see through TWO layers of this shirt! I smiled and said, "I'll buy the t-shirt, but there's no way I could possibly wear it in public - it would just embarrass both of us!" He was stunned - but, making a long story short, he started calling me "the classy broad".

So, while all the other people in the office were wearing cheap t-shirts and slinging spagetti, I got to represent my boss at teas, banquets, and other upscale occasions! :D

Unfortunately, I also learned the fast way to fan & stuff envelopes...

This DEFINITLY makes me appreciate my internship.

How to answer the phone "Wisconsin Victory 04"

How to ignore anti-choice protestors

How to be desensitized to those falsified and gross "abortion" pictures the anti-choice folks like to show off

Yeah, it's such a shame that "anti-choice" folks should have the opportunity to show gross pictures. After all, if it wasn't an issue, there'd be no gross evidence.

:rolleyes:

Did you learn how to upset children and victimize women who were having a PAP at your internship, or were you born naturally bitchy?

It's not my problem if children get upset. Yes, its a traumatizing thing if they figure out exactly what it means (most kids cant comprehend what abortion is) but then again, WHY should they have to be exposed to such violence? You're talking about victimizing women, but yet, you cant understand that as horrific as it is, it shouldnt be something that we should have to explain to our kids.

First day of my senior year in high school, there were protesters on the side of the road with posters and everything. It was made me sick to look at it. But that was the point. Do I agree with protesters? No. Do I think they were there for a reason? Yes.

When i went to work that evening, I was talking about it with another student who went to my school. I worked in a department store, and a customer came over to us and said "I'd appreciate it if you would stop this conversation. I dont want to have to explain to my 7 year old what abortion is."

Exactly. You shouldnt have to explain it. It shouldnt be an issue. I'm pro-choice....you make the choice to be a dumbass and get pregnant, you suffer the consequences. There are entirely too many forms of birth control available these days. If you dont want to get pregnant, you wont. Period. Even rapes and "oops the condom broke"...thats what the morning after pill is for. Abortion is an excuse for stupid people.

Not true. I personally know three women who got pregnant while on birth control pills.

I personally would never take a morning after pill -- to me, they're still too new and have too many issues surrounding them. I've read at least one article where a woman died from taking these.

/hijack

So abortion is totally safe and nobody has died from it?

You would rather wait and get an abortion instead of taking the morning after pill if I get ya, right?

-Rudey

:eek: :eek: :eek:

With the morning after pill, you don't know for sure if you're pregnant -- that just seems like a bigger risk to me. If you're choosing to get an abortion, you KNOW you're pregnant.

And Rudey, if you got me pregnant, I wouldn't abort your babies. They'd be too much fun.

If I got you preggers, I'd make you do jumping jacks and get out of having to pay for anything in the near future.

-Rudey
--Because that's the kind of guy I am.

When taken correctly, birthcontrol pills are nearly 100% effective. I personally dont trust birth control pills, BECAUSE they are so risky. God forbid you forget to take them at the same exact time every single day. Plus, one of my good friends got pregnant even while taking the pill the right way because of an antibiotic she had to go on because of a dog bite. Hello? If you take a medication that might affect your BC, you take backup precautions. Why is that SO HARD for people to comprehend?

I've been on Depo for 6 years and have never had a problem, and dont have to worry about "oops, I forgot to take my pill."

I'm like that chick that wants to have Garth's babies.

***Sigh***
1-Depo makes some people gain a lot of weight
2-Yes you should TRY to take your pill at the same time every day, but you won't go up in flames if you are a little be off.
3-Even smart people have had condoms break
4- Even smart people have bad luck
5- Why did you turn this fun, innocent thread into an abortion debate?
6-Your arguements are not very persuasive.
The End

I don't mean to be rude, but come on, this thread is not the place to debate abortion.


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to move this back on track

At my internship I learned how to help underprivlidege children do nothing and get paid for it.
I learned how to get up at 8am to play spider solitare in 30 below weather
I also learned that the best part of the real world is they serve free wine at events. :) (I was 21)
Oh and I learned that the worst idea if you are in wisconsin is a St-Paddy's day parade. I swear that it was at least -15 w/windchill and I had to stand outside for three or four hours trying to get drunk people in line....:)

Ahhhh...Vanity at it's best.

small price to pay IMO.



Anyway...I've learned that headphones are an essential when you're lowly co-op/intern who is forced to SHARE a cubicle with another person - one who consistently belches, coughs, snorts and grunts without saying excuse me on a daily basis.

It's not just vanity. It's also really unhealthy.

5-10 pounds is not going to kill anybody. My doctors have said anything more than 5-10 pounds is a result of too many big macs.

5-10 pounds may in the end may lead to death, how do you know that it won't? Also, pregnancy isn't a choice, you can make all of the proper precautions and still end up pregnant. Even when the pill is taken properly it still is only 99% effective. In my opinion you've completely derailed this thread.

Back on topic, I didn't have an internship, but rather I worked in the VP of Enrollment Management's office directly under him where I learned to make a mean cup of coffee. I also learned how to make lots of copies and wield a highlighter like no other. I also can assemble packets for the Board of Directors quickly and efficiently.

I am also a very efficient stapler. Luckily, I did not have to lick envelopes, which pleases me beyond belief.

People are talking about licking envelopes . . . why didn't you get a damp sponge or paper towel and a cup of water to keep the sponge damp so you can swipe the sticky part of the envelope?:confused:

Oh I forgot one, I'm a deamon in the database. I can tab through fields like nobody's business.
:)

you haven't lived until you've worked for the big university as a "student assistant." my record, sad as it sounds, was six hours straight of paper shredding...

I'm putting it on my resume as "assisted with privacy management in relation to official documents."

My internship was super fun. I taught the office how to use MS Visio. They couldn't figure out how I could make such lovely flowcharts in 10 minutes.

Maybe I shouldn't have shown them b/c they thought I was a genius :P