I have spent most of the spring semester searching around for internship opportunities. I spent hours on LinkedIn but funnily enough the only internships that I considered were through other connections.<\/p>\n
I met a family friend of my roommate who is one of the most prolific entrepreneurs I have ever encountered. He started with almost nothing and now is the owner of several successful companies and lots of real estate in his area. Suffice it to say I was very keen to work for him.<\/p>\n
We began communicating about what in internship with him might look like. He had never had an interview before but was very interested, especially because when I met him the first time we hit it off.\u00a0 We corresponded for some weeks about the various things I could do for him and I was very excited. Everything he wanted I knew I could do. He wanted me to totally revamp his marketing which up to that point was merely word of mouth and a few Facebook posts. I would create social media accounts and content, and he wanted me to start a blog and a podcast. I was super pumped.<\/p>\n
But the weeks kept passing and I really needed him to make a division. I had already begun work on creating content and brainstorming how to reach new target audiences. I thought that I had thoroughly sold myself and that I had the internship in the bag. But it was always in the back of my mind that he had never officially hired me. Aware of this I finally pushed him to give me a final answer.<\/p>\n
Though I really believe he has a great entrepreneurial vision he is a terrible communicator and very forgetful. I knew this going in but his eccentricities didn’t deter me. That being said I did not expect him to take so long to make a decision or that he would forget about our scheduled meeting and even neglected to save my number. In the end, I was forced to ask him to make a decision and at that point, he could not be bothered.<\/p>\n
I was very disappointed and yet thankful that I could move on and look for other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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