Last Thoughts on My Last Day

Today was my last day at the Kokomo Tribune. I arrived on my usual time, wrote the best bets for Friday, and worked on the answer book before calling it quits and heading home. As I walked down the stairs for the last time a thought occured to me, now that I don't have my internship, and I haven't gotten a call back from either of the places I applied to, I have nothing. Even though it wasn't a job, and I didn't get paid, the internship felt like I was doing something with my college degree. Now that it is over, I will have to wait to get a job in order to write or edit again, and that may take some time considering it took three weeks to find out I didn't get either of the jobs I applied for. It could be months or years until I work for a paper or publishing company. In the meantime, I'll have nothing to make me feel like a writer or a success. I should have left feeling more confident and accomplished, but all I feel is depressed.

Comming to an End

After about three months, I finally picked an end date for my internship, which tentatively, is Aug. 18. I think I have learned all that I can from this experience. I've learned a little and wrote a lot. I've had a lot of fun and met some nice people. I especially liked working with Erin and Ken. I will never forget my first and second day there. It was really awesome how I got to dive right in. But now, I think I'm ready to move on. I'm starting to get busy and I need to concentrate on finding a career. I've come to realize that this internship will probably not help me get a job around here--because there aren't any. But it will give me the clips and experience to get a job somewhere else. So far, I've applied for two copyeditor positions and recieved a call from both. Both of them will get back with me in one or two weeks for an interview, so now all I can do is play the waiting game. Meanwhile, I will wrap things up at the Kokomo Tribune and try to get all of my personal framing projects done at Hobby Lobby so that I can purchase them with my discount.