Blog Post 10

Even though in all my blog posts I have talked a lot of good about my internship, how its rewarding, or how I really enjoy going to it everyday, there are naturally some aspects of the internship I don’t particularly enjoy. And though many of the things they have me doing I find interesting there are other tasks that seem very trivial and boring. The first of these boring tasks that do not enjoy at all I got on my second or third day on the job. The task was to take one of the radio’s banners, cut out the part that says “950 AM”, throw away that banner, and then literally past that cut out over the part that said “102.5”, for the radio station had lost that number and now only had 950 AM. It was essentially a way for the station to attempt to save money, because doing this would mean they would not have to design and purchase new banner just because one of their station numbers were changed. This task was surprisingly very time consuming, and I ended up just doing that for two hours. It was extremely boring and it was obvious that I was not getting anything from this experience. Out of all the tasks I have been given at KJR, this by far has been the worst. The other task I have not enjoyed at KJR is cleaning out the prize closet. The prize closet is where we file away different prizes so that I receptionist can find them and give them to people coming to pick them up.  Cleaning out the prize closet entails going through each and every while, which there are a lot of, and seeing if any have been sitting their for over three months, or if they are tickets to concerts that have already happened. In either of those two cases they are removed and put into a “Never Picked Up” box. This work is extremely tedious and takes a very long time, and is also not rewarding at all. It is these sort of tasks, the ones that take a very long time, but are very easy and don’t give me any good experience, that I really don’t like for I feel as though I am totally wasting my time. Though the way I deal with doing these tasks is I remember that these trivial tasks are actually very crucial to the radio station, and someone has to do it. When I think about it like that, it helps me get through the less enjoyable tasks.