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I'm a-ight
My job at my internship is remarkably ill-defined. I am a "web development intern," but the boundaries of that job are pretty much up to my own interpretation. Lately I've been trying to define my job and set limits as to what I can and can't do and what I can and can't learn over the course of the summer.
It's hard for me when someone wants me to do something that I can't do, because one of my strongest drives is the need to please. I don't want to disappoint anyone by telling them that I can't do something. I don't want to admit to myself that I can't do something.
The problem is, lots of the duties that would normally be expected of a "web development intern" are not within my range. I don't know anything about ASP or server-side includes or how to configure a web server or graphic design or anything. I can carry out a competitive analysis. I can do a mean site restructuring. Just don't ask me to build anything complicated or particularly eye-catching.
There are skills I bring to this organization, I'm just not sure that they're skills that will be particularly valued by the organization, especially by those who expect me to be a normal "web development intern" instead of an HCI person.
Mostly, I guess, I just want to do a good job at what I can do and to have Randy Jackson to come to my organization and say, "Yo. Yo. Yo, dogg. Yo, dogg. I was really feeling you this summer. You made that job your own."
srah - Tuesday, 18 May 2004 - 10:20 PM
Tags: internship, the abbey, work
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Welcome to the world of, um, web working?
In most of the web jobs I've had, they expected me to do things that were really the job of a "web development full-time, salaried employee" but I was only getting paid temporary employee wages. That was such a pain.