Listen Up Interns

interns it's not what you're going to learn this summer as a matter of fact 94% of you are going to take jobs where they're going to teach you dumbass or stuff that you already know they're mailing in their internships interns it's not about what you're going to learn this summer my friends it's going to be a who you meet please understand as you go into this internship maximize networking shake hands kiss babies if you're a Wallflower don't even do internship like not the classic way like obviously you have a skill to learn you're lucky enough to be a developer or something like that but fine but like if you're an intern please understand it is the human connections that you're going to make way too many people roll in and think they're going to learn something about advertising or marketing or Media or startups you're not you're just not you're not just saving your time and if you do it's just this much it's 3% of the equation please attack the other 97 go to Every After Hours event say hello to everybody if you go into an office where everybody's head down and it's not that kind of culture figure it out hack it be the obnoxious intern that was too bubbly and make sure you attach yourself even if you go into an office Law Firm where everybody's head down if you see that one person that looks up and gives you a glimmer of people skills attach yourself to that person let them bring you to things interns use this time wisely way too many of you go in and you think you're going to get something and in reality the magic was sitting right in front of you and the punchline my friends is it's the people it's the people that you meet in that office that go work somewhere else that are reminded by your hustle and tenacity and good Ness and offense and you went for it you attached for it you wanted it and uh and they're the ones that give you the opportunities this is a very simple world this is a people world not the black and white skills you learned this summer in 8 weeks half of you are going to get coffee and do dumb cuz they disrespect the youth inappropriately um so please even if you are in that 50% that's getting dumb and coffees and things that nature say hello you drop a coffee off to somebody and they've got a Cardinals penet and you know something about the Cardinals say something about Adam way wght create relationships it is the only kpi Ro why of an internship