Think About It - week 2
Respond to this post after you have spent at least one full week at your internship. If you like, start your comment with a few sentences summarizing your tasks so far. Devote the remainder of your response to this "thinking assignment": Choose an adult who works with you at your internship. This might be your mentor, but it may be someone else at your work site. Discover the official title of the job he or she holds. Write a short paragraph about the day-to-day tasks you observe this person doing. Include your opinion about the level of satisfaction he or she seems to derive from the job. You may base your opinion on your own observations and/or on conversations with the person you are observing. Is this satisfaction intrinsic to the job itself or related more to job environment, co-workers, etc.? Is it, perhaps, most related to the person's outlook on life? In your last paragraph, consider briefly whether this job is something you could ...