I was chatting with my replacement intern the other day. Lots of progress for the big stakeholder meeting we\u2019ve been trying to organize since last December. They had made lots of good connections with big organizations, some of which might even be interested in funding our activities. It sounds like lots have happened just in the one week I\u2019ve been gone.<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t help but feel a bit left out, a bit jealous (?), and a bit unwilling to consciously admit my pettiness. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love the new intern (as a person and as a colleague) and how things are moving. It\u2019s just that I really wish I could join in the action. This big stakeholder meeting was my biggest goal during my internship; it was the accumulation of everything that we were working towards. Now, I won\u2019t even get to see how it will unfold.<\/p>\n
Internship programs are a little bit cruel.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s because in the past, whenever I\u2019ve thrown myself 120% into something, I\u2019ve always guided it to fruition. If not to the very end, I would at least get to see the results of what I had been working on.<\/p>\n
To be really truthful, I would have worked for SCI even at half the wage (where I\u2019ll barely scrap by, with no savings and no expat spending \u2013 i.e. eating out at \u2018expensive\u2019 places, buying stuff from supermarkets etc), just because I felt so involved and was learning so much. At the same time, as my friend said the other day, \u201cYou\u2019re not a student anymore; expect your employers to treat you like a proper employee.\u201d<\/p>\n
I guess I\u2019ll have to take the first step into proper employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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