First Day Interning

Hi everyone,

As a follow up to my previous post I would like to write about my first day experience at Magnetize. I began my internship journey at the end of February and I must admit I was nervous. I hadn’t previously completed an internship and I was nervous about what it was going to be like. Was it going to be The Devil Wears Prada style of coffee runs and phone answering? What if people in the office didn’t like me? What if I didn’t dress the same as everyone else? What if I didn’t know enough to get the job done? These were all real issues that I struggled with in the walk to my first day. However upon arrival my new team warmly greeted me.  I was introduced to Teagan who would be my go to contact for my duration of the internship at Magnetize. I was taken around the office, which I found out we share with accountants and introduced to everyone.

The people were genuinely lovely and the most common question after where do you study? Was ‘ are you here on Fridays? That’s the drinking day!’. I instantly felt welcomed and at ease in the environment, so that was already toning down the first day nerves. The next big moment came when I was led to my own desk and set up on the computer.  Teagan then ran through with me some of the legal requirements, gave me a bunch of paper work to fill out and told me to come grab her once I was done.  With the boring stuff out of the way it was now time to be brief on my first days worth of work, cue nerves. I was instructed to go about making a hash tag database for several different topics, create social media posts for clients on Facebook and Instagram and do a draft blog post for a hair dressing client.

It was at this point I became thankful for all of my studies…and a borderline unhealthy addiction to Instagram. I took these tasks up with the confidence in knowing that I would be able to execute them in a way that would do my education proud. After completing all of the tasks I emailed them off to Teagan for feedback, which I was grateful to hear was positive. I left my first day feeling confident, happy and most of all determined. I was so worried that I would come into my internship and realise that it was not what I wanted to eventually pursue careers wise. Today confirmed that I was going in the right direction. Stay tuned.

Xoxo B