I really
enjoy my internship at the crime lab. We have ID badges that we scan to get
into the parking lot and into the lab itself. Every morning when I scan to get
access I feel glad to be a part of the lab, even if only as an intern.
I’d already applied
for two different full time positions and had two interviews for one of those
before getting the internship position, so I’d already had a taste of unsuccessfully
trying to “get in” to the lab. Now I’m here and I’m getting to know the
analysts, and it’s great. First of all I am seeing more and more what the job
entails and feeling more confident all the time that I could handle this job well.
Second I get to know the analysts beyond their job positions and see them as
regular people I could be friends with. Being in the lab makes the whole idea
of becoming a DNA analyst seem that much more attainable, both in terms of what
the job actually requires and in terms of how, if others can do it, I can do
it.
I also like
the project I’m working on for my internship. For now it’s mostly data entry,
which is simple enough, but what I’m analyzing is interesting and it’s also
helping me learn more about Excel, which I really enjoy. Makes me want to make
Excel tables for everything.
And it’s
nice to have somewhere I need to be that’s out of the apartment. I overall enjoy
the work I do for Charter, but when that was my only job I spent basically all
of my time either in the apartment or at Starbucks, and that can get tedious.
Now my day is nicely split between being at lab and doing Charter work, such
that I don’t have enough time to get really tired of either one of the jobs.
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