So I have to admit, the work life, at least for me can get a little lonely. I’m mostly in my cublicle all day, except for when I take a walk during my lunch hour, or go to meetings.My last blog entry I talked about volunteering, well that was the most interaction I’ve had since orientation, but not anymore. This week I’ve come up with my own goal plan for making connections. I’ve arranged to have face to face meetings with people to talk about getting an MBA, other career options at Intel®, and I’ve decided to have face to face meetings with my fellow teamates who live in places like Oregon or Germany ( no I’m not going to Germany, someone is meeting me while they are here, in California on business), and I’ve volunteered myself to give feedback and share my thoughts on other peoples work. I think these are vital skills that I need to have if I want to get asked to intern here again, and are probably good things to do at any company. I’m learning that in a small school its easy to make lots of friends, and build good relationships with teachers, because everyone is interested in doing that. In big business, its not that simple, people may not find it that important to connect, and those who do want to connect, might not always have the time. Speaking of connecting, I’m also learning that when you’re asked to do a project at work its not like at school, you don’t get a set of guidelines and what to include, its more like here I need a report on topic X, by next week, go. And after that, its up to me to ask the questions. I learned this the hard way by trying to do it all on my own, and ending up redoing my project. I’ve decided that while its good experience, and practice, to try to do things on your own, without asking your manager about every little thing, sometimes, you need to just go ahead and admit you don’t know exactly what to do, because, guess what, I usually don’t know what exactly to do!
No pictures this time just some chatter about what I’m learning. Next week I’ll post about how my 10 week plan is going, and maybe include something about how my (insert terrified face) report that I’m presenting to (insert even more terrified face) upper management goes.