I had my interview a few days ago for my internship. It was my final interview for the placing EUSA had given me back in Boston so as long as I didn't screw up too badly, I was golden. I had the interview at 11 am. It is out in this place I had never heard of nor been to before, so I decide to give myself 2 hours to get there, just in case I have a delay on the tube or it takes way longer than anticipated to get there (which I was praying it wouldn't because there is no way I would make it to work every day if I had to travel two hours to get there and two hours to get back. no way. So I left my place at 9 am, after I had dressed and redressed 3 times. Hahaha....in retrospect, when I was told that the dress for my job would be casual, I should have taken it at face value. There was no need at all for my SMG skirt and top complete with black flats and blazer. Really. no need at all. Good thing I didn't decide to top it off with my AKPsi pin....
So I get to the tube and am thrown amidst the normal work crowd. Your suits and whatnot, all impeccably tailored and ready for another day of accounting, financing, cutting budgets, misallocating expenses (can a senator really get away with writing off his porn as a work expense? REALLY?!) and whatnot. Well then. I guess this is what it will be like every morning. It just seems so grown up. I feel like I'm 2 years old playing dressup, but oddly enough, the clothes fit. Does that mean I'm ready? that I am growing up? To the first, I hope so. To the second, I hope that never happens. Anywho. It turns out I can make it to Finsbury park in a short 40 minutes after leaving my doorstep, and then it is 10 more minutes to my workplace. So I get off the tube and begin the walk towards my workplace, hoping that I will find some cute little cafe or something to occupy my time when I get there. It is seriously the most oddly charming and scary at the same time place I have ever been to. They have a BBQ joint that looks like it was taken straight out of Tennessee right next to a little italian restaurant that seems like a little piece of the boot imported to the UK. I keep walking and seeing the strangest mix of people ever.
I make it to my interview place, find a cafe and sit. I am a little over an hour early. I have time to kill....and no way of killing it. At first I wish I had brought a book. But, of course, I didn't. I spend a little time going over interview questions (which in retrospect was also pointless because the interview was so informal). I end up people watching. There are so many people in this cafe at 10 am that are just reading and relaxing, alone or with their children, that I wonder what they are doing here on a Friday morning. Why aren't they at work? or at school? or busy running errands? What are their life stories? I pass about 45 minutes sipping cream tea (without the cream) and making up lives for these people.
I finally decide its time to walk across the street to my interview and realize that I can't actually find the number on the street that it is located. Perfect. Like a dumbass, I lazed around for 40 minutes and now I can't even find the building. Great. So I try one that looks like it should be it and end up walking into some random guy's apartment/office? I'm not really even sure. Anyways. I ask and he is definitely not the person I am looking for. He has never even heard of the people I am looking for, but apparently "there are some music people right up over there," which ends up being a office over his roof, so he takes me to them and goes "Is this yours?" hahahahahaaaaa. Julia, the woman interviewing me laughed and pulled me inside. From then on I felt strangely at home with both Julia and Claire (the other woman who works in the office). The interview went well. They answered any questions I had before I even asked them and were very forthcoming about the work I would be doing with them. They deal with a bunch of very eclectic artists and they gave me some CDs I have been listening to. None of it is at all mainstream, but all of it is very interesting. Its great for me because I love music so much that it is very rare I find something I don't like. Basically, Julia told me what I would be doing is helping set up contacts and venues and such for tours, I may get to go listen in on studio time, I would be researching possible marketing solutions, and stuff like that. I personally think that, as an intern, I could not have asked for a better job. Both women made it quite clear that if I had an idea about something, I should bring it up because they are open to it. I can do as much in this internship as I want and I intend to take complete advantage.
I am so excited about this internship.....sounds like some good work and play. I guess you'll hear more about it once it starts though :)
Radhi
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