Three little words...

     I find summing my internship up into three words extremely difficult.  However, having to choose just three, I would have to go with fun, informative, and social.  I choose fun, simply because have not really had a bad day at my internship, especially while I am at the station events.  Second I chose informative.  This internship has given me a great insight to the inter-workings of the radio industry.  This has helped me assess my original plans for my future career, and tweak them a bit.  Third, I choose the word social.  It is extremely hard to not be outgoing and work in radio.  We must be very social, and talk to anyone and everyone who approaches us.  Overall, we deal with social interactions with the radio station listeners, and get to meet many different people.

     The culture of my workplace is extremely different from my last internship.  At my previous internship, I spent everyday working in an office, on a computer.  At this internship, most of our time is spent at events such as bars, pet stores, or the Philadelphia Convention Center.  While we do spend one day a week working in an office, this too is very different than my previous internship.  The days we spend in the office include us calling listeners, making the bins for the weekends events, and what ever other tasks we are assigned to complete.  The culture is very laid back, no one really dresses up, and we don’t worry too much about what we look like in the office.  On the other hand, when we are working events we must make sure we are the best representation of the radio stations that we can be.

     The gender balance is anything but a balance.  In the promotions department, which I work in, there are twice as many females as there are males.  In other departments however, such as the DJs, there are more men than woman.  It is not fair to say that one department has more of one gender than another, because as a complete station I would make an educated guess to say that we are about equal.

     This internship has provided me with an experience like no other, and I am excited to see where these last few weeks lead me.

Hours Worked:

Friday:               7:30pm-1:30am (event)

Wednesday:     10:00am-3:30pm (office)