Intern Review

It was helpful to learn more about the industry that interests me and to see another side of the translation world, though I do think that I would feel more capable and would enjoy it more if I were to have a more linguistically centered position rather than project management.

They were more often than not fairly nice to me, though it sometimes didn't feel genuine and felt as if they were acting more so out of a sense of professional obligation than out of genuine interest.

My mentor and direct boss were both quite happy to assist me if there was anything that I needed assistance with, though due to the small scale of the team and the large workload for us, it didn't feel as if they could really make a lot of time to show me how things were done at times.

Due to the nature of relying on client demands for us to do much of anything as far as managing projects, the workload would vary drastically (with some days feeling very overwhelming and stressful, and others feeling as if I didn't even need to be in the office at all).

The gradual increase in responsibility over the course of the internship was good for the first 1/2 or 2/3, though there did feel like there was a drastic step up in what was expected of me towards the end of the internship.

I'm unsure if the skills I've developed that are directly related to this position will help me in the future since they are very specific to the industry, though I hope that they will be of some use in the future.

A good mix of enjoying each other's company, in combination with a fairly strong adherence to getting work done first before anything else.

There were a set of longer term goals and some milestones setup for myself, though it did seem towards the end that the internship didn't transition into the full time responsibilities so smoothly.

They gave me the basics to get started and shared with me the materials to do some of the training, but it felt like much of the training was done simply through doing, which sometimes felt as if I needed to figure out how to address things on my own.

With it's focus on marketing and the lack of focus on linguistics or cultural aspects, I am quite uninterested in continuing along a career path with this organization.

There was some opportunity to speak and do things with colleagues, though our company felt rather isolated from the other colleagues in the building for both offices I worked at.

It's New York City. Absolutely everything was expensive, even just getting to the office (which only got more expensive with the moving of the office even further south a few months in).

It's New York City, so while I may not have participated often, I'm confident it was good.

Nothing that was encouraged or facilitated by the company or colleagues (you had to go out yourself and involve yourself in the city life to do anything).