My biggest stress of each day I intern is which shoes I plan on wearing to walk in and then change into. This becomes my goal every night before, when I pick out my outfit and lay it out for the morning. My check list goes: 1. Weather 2. Comfort 3. Appearance. These three things either make or break my outfit and shoe selection. It really becomes an issue when I know what I want to wear but the weather just isn't in my favor.
Wednesday night while picking out my clothes for Thursday, I knew that the morning would consist of heavy rain, while the afternoon would be dry and sunshine. My thought process: I need two pairs of shoes, no rain boots because their too bulky to hold, maybe flip flops to walk in, they might hurt but I don't want to ruin other shoes, flats for the office, OK done.
I am only writing about this because I happened to be VERY wrong about my choices for this Thursday morning, which I will never make the mistake again!
While waiting for the train, I was dry, but once I hit the city, all bets were off. As much rain there was, the wind was worse. As I quickly walked down to 10th avenue, I realized that not only were my feet now soaked wearing these flip flops, but they were so slippery and my feet felt like they were going to fall out walking forward. I now walked with a funny toe curl limp that was very uncomfortable to do for the next six streets and an avenue.
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| A mess of a city when it rains |
By the time I arrived outside the office, I looked like a wet dog and then some. I felt disgusting and messy looking for work. GREAT.
When I got into the office, I grabbed my flats from my bag and ran to the bathroom before anyone saw I was there. I wiped off my flip flops, changed into my flats, and looked in the mirror to see this aftermath of a disaster. You would have thought I walked the whole way with no umbrella looking the way I did. I was a drenched mess.
I fixed up my makeup and hair and went to go sit down at one of the computers. I actually ended up liking the way my hair dried after having rain water redo my hair for me after curling it. I had to take a picture for proof:
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| Why can't my hair always look like this? |
After feeling somewhat ready to start my day now, I grabbed my pad and pen and went to see "C". For the third time now, "C" had a to-do list. Maybe she's catching on that I like lists! The first sentence that she says is, "good morning, hope you have an umbrella today!" Oh no... where was I getting told to go??
"C" explained that she needed me to bring two mismatched shoes back to Ruthie Davis' showroom. The showroom was only a block away but it was POURING and I just came in from walking 20 minutes. But off I went. This time I wore my flats.
They were expecting me to come by with these shoes so I had to move quickly.
I have been here before, just last week, so I knew where I had to go. I walked into the main door, went to the elevator and hit the 8th floor button. The hallways in this building are pretty cool looking.
You can see that in the picture, to the far right, are words on the wall which tells you how to navigate each office.
I dropped off the bag and back to the office I went.
Although the rain did leave me bitter this morning, It does make the city look pretty... sometimes.
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| OK it does look a little pretty |
When I got back to my computer, all the interns were in and at work, checking in some inventory and whatnot.
On my checklist today, it only consisted of a couple of things. This was because one of the main tasks was going to take me a few hours and "C" wanted me to get it done today. This would follow into Tuesday as well. Basically, every month in the press, the clients we work with have their brand mentioned or shown in publications or online websites that are then seen by millions. As the public relations firm, we collect these press clips for them to then have for their company and know who is featuring them. For our companies purpose, we collect all of the press clips into one big presentation via PowerPoint. My task was to pull all the press clips that were already clipped into a file and make a slide for each, including the publication/website, date they were published, and the category the publication/website fell under such as fashion, lifestyle, wedding, etc.
This took me almost the entire day. I started this at 10 a.m. and did not finish until 4 p.m. This was because it was time consuming finding all the logos for each publication and looking up what each website consisted of and what category to group them in. "C" was very happy this was taken care of and said we will now be two weeks ahead of schedule!
This makes every one's live a little more easier. Apparently, they always wait until the last minute to do the monthly presentation and brings upon a lot of stress that way. Tuesday, "C" said that there are a couple more things that have to be added but after that, it will be completed.
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| This was my view for six hours straight. |
After the very long day on the computer, I then helped "C" do a couple of minor things around the office like pulls and checkouts.
Thankfully the walk back to the train station was beautiful and only sunshine. I was happy to get out of the computer chair and use my legs!
This internship it becoming a great life experience and I enjoy calling it that. When people ask me how it's going, I don't lie, the commute is the most discouraging part, but everything else makes it worth it! I couldn't have asked for a better internship in NYC, with a great boss and great people that I am surrounded by and working with. I am very pleased and am happy to be able to add them to my resume and describe all the different things I have learned and will be learning as the summer goes on.
Tuesday might be another desk day, but I enjoy being in the surroundings of everyone and being apart of something in the fashion industry! Whether it's doing computer work or going to show rooms, experience is experience and I will take full advantage of it all!
Stayed tuned for Tuesday's post!
FYI: The internship class will be every other week so no class this coming Tuesday.
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