My Internship project was a dream board that I created of what my future looks like mapped out in my head as of now. This project was important to me because it makes me visualize my future and actually plan the steps I need to take to accomplish my goals. Having my goals on a dream board will actually push me to get these things done. First I brainstormed what I wanted to put on my dream board, I knew I wanted to do something with educational goals along with basketball and traveling. Then I wanted to map out how I would actually put the content onto the board, would it just be a bunch of pictures of my goals all over the board or would I put it in a timeline. I put my dream board into a timeline because I wanted it to be a path to see how I would follow my path to my future. Presenting it was really fun too because it made me realize how bright my future could be if I take the right steps, I was very doubtful before.
I think that I am very certain I want to go to a school with a really good business school. I want to become an entrepreneur and run my own successful business after college. I am continuing my internship as a big project has been put into the lap of the marketing team at King Aminpour & Associates and I will be joining them as this is an amazing opportunity to see a business being built and ran to be big and successful. I have a great feeling about this project and I know this will educate me very well on how a business begins, grows, functions, and becomes successful. The people besides the attorneys have a very good education and I could see myself doing the things they do working for King if I continue my education in college and go down the same path they went down. I'm very excited to see what the future has in store for me educationally and beyond that!
Seeing how everyone in this job site just gets there stuff done right away was super valuable to me. No excuses, no sloppy work, they just do their work the way it's supposed to be done so they can move on to the next thing. This will be very helpful for me in school when I have a lot of tasks to complete, just prioritize my work, and start knocking everything out. Another thing that I'll be able to use within education is the communication skills I learned during this experience. People don't sugarcoat things, they tell and ask people straight up, cut to the chase, and that's also very useful in group settings in class. Most of the things I just explained won't only be beneficial to my education, but even beyond that when I am in a different workspace. Just seeing how successfully King and his staff work on helping clients out, run a very good marketing team has opened my eyes and shown me a lot of very good qualities I think I can pick up on and definitely use after this experience.
During this internship I met most of the people who work for King and they were all super nice to me and I learned from most of them. Everyone in the office is super helpful, kind, outgoing, very intelligent, and a term I like using, everyone is a "go-getter" which basically means when they want something, they make it happen, they go get it. I would like to have that characteristic, or I would actually like to grow on some of it that I already have as I grow and experience more and more educational wise, workplace wise, and anywhere else that I could use it. I think that since I got my feet wet experiencing a very successful law firm and got to meet very great people that are very good influencers, that I see myself being much like one of them someday in the future. This internship experience made me very happy for the future as I use to be unsure of how my future was gonna go good or bad, now I am looking forward to the future and I know I will have a very bright future if I continue to surround myself with people like these who work at King Aminpour & Associates and learn more and more from them.
-My mentor Abraham Muheize and I.
-Video of one of our days promoting one of our events we're putting on.
-Post meeting picture with a photographer, videographer, and another mentor of mine I've been working with for almost a year Ray Williams.
-Me working at a celebrity golf tournament in Rancho Santa Fe, picture by Ray Williams.
-My first day, myself, Kev, Abe, and another intern Carl.
This internship experience has been very eye opening so far, and I've learned a lot about how successful people function and work. At first when tasks were put into my lap for example, I would be very nervous to mess up or I would just try to ask someone to do it for me, like my first day King hands me a folder with lots of papers in it and says, "Jackson, could you please copy this for me?" I had no idea what to do I kind of just walked around the office pretending to look for someone until one of the employees asked me if I needed help and then they showed me how to copy the file. But since then I've just tried my best with everything that's came my way and then if I get stuck, I ask for help from anyone in the office, since now I know most of them know I'm interning for King and I'm not just a random face. I think another part that helped me have more self advocacy is just seeing and experiencing first hand of how everyone in the office advocate for themselves and then just reflecting how they do their stuff directly to me and just try to get my tasks done. I have not been looking into how to be an intern everyone remembers but I think that I'm gonna ask to extend my internship as the marketing team is going to be starting a huge project and I would love to be a part of it, this would be a very good experience for me and this would almost be better than business school because I'm learning everything first hand and actually seeing a growing business.
So for my project I will be creating a Vision Board/Dream Board. My mentor and one of the other people in the marketing team Kev, say they want to help me not only create my Vision Board, but help me accomplish everything on it as well. I'm going to be getting ideas mostly from Kev on what exactly I should be putting on there, since he says he has created them with people and watched them accomplish them, So far, I want to put one of my favorite quotes which is from a legendary NBA player Vince Carter, and something about traveling, education, and basketball. I need more details on what exactly to put on my board but I know Kev can help me out with it. I need to make sure I'm not putting stuff I know I can do with no effort but I also don't want to just overestimate or put impossible things on there like a kindergartener saying they wanna have super powers when they grow up. I want to be self-reliant for this, so I'm planning on asking Kev and Abe essential questions about other Vision Boards they have helped create and then trying to do the rest (putting it all together) by myself.
So today I gave my mentor Abraham a very in detail interview but went along with the questions we had, I made it in detail because Abe and King Aminpour said they would like me to be a "sponge" and take in as much as I can these four weeks. I started by asking Abe more personal questions like how he looks at every day, and also what he would've liked to have done when he was my age/suggestions he had for me if he was in my shoes. Abe takes every day very seriously and makes sure that something gets done every single day, whether that be at work or at home, he makes goals for himself daily and most of the time does whatever he needs to make sure those goals are met day in and day out. The responsibilities that land int Abe's hands mostly consists of organizing everything, like mapping everyday out making sure everything goes smoothly, alongside prioritizing everything he needs to do that day, week, or any period of time. The reason Abe told me he started working with Aminpour and Associates is because of the marketing, he knew King Aminpour had good marketing, Abe saw billboards, handouts everywhere wing King's name all over, but Abe wanted to make the marketing for King Aminpour even better. Abe followed up by saying if he was my age again, he wishes he would've known to just get stuff done, and stay on top of organizing and started setting daily goals earlier as well. After asking him a few questions about his personal life I asked him about the business side of what he does and what it takes to be successful with marketing. Abe said that the passion and thrive he had to be good in marketing made him successful on what he does. Also he liked partnering up with King because of how much he likes to give back, and King gave him a bigger platform to give back to San Diego. Another thing Abe went over is how important it is to communicate well with the people around you in the workspace you're in, and that it's a great thing to also become a leader in the work place.
I'm really enjoying the internship at King Aminpour, I feel very welcomed, I get along with everyone there, the only downside is driving from Escondido to Down Town San Diego every morning... I've been developing great communication skills, sitting in meetings, talking around the office, asking questions when I need help with tasks, I know these communication skills will help me Career-wise and Education-wise. My internship has started out very, very well and I am very honored and excited to be a part of the amazing King Aminpour and Associates. The feeling that I am welcomed by every single person I have encountered that works for King is a great feelings, from the minute my mentor started introducing me to people I haven't met that he works alongside, I felt like I fit in very well. I talked with my mentor and also another worker for King, Nelson, and we briefly had conversations about how everyone that works for King is a "go getter", or in other words, when they want something, they go and get it, they make it happen. I also went over with them that everyone in the workspace generally the office I have been working in, everyone is super intelligent and outgoing, and I told them both how much of a good experience it is for me to be working along some of the most interesting and nicest people in San Diego. Whats crazy about the colleagues I have at King Aminpour and Associates is that no matter who you talk to about their past in the office, they have all made a change in some type of way, and have at least one crazy, amazing accomplishment. I'm excited to plan out and actually go to and work during some of the events we have been working on, like for example this Thursday through Sunday we have a Celebrity Golf Tournament and I will be helping out with the social media aspect and documenting everything with a team I worked with for months starting last November. I'm not very worried for anything really, or there is nothing I can think of that I'm worried about. I really like my internship and I have a lot to learn!
The day starts at 11 o'clock in Down Town San Diego, I'm outside of the office I will be working at for the next few weeks. I walk up to the big black and gold gates outside the office's front doors, although I have been in here before I am a little nervous to go back in here. I'm dressed very professional from head to toe, wearing a suit and dress shoes. While I was standing there at the front doors waiting for someone to come open the gate for me I am texting my mentor Abraham that I was waiting at the front gate. Immediately after I texted Abe, a guy walks up to the gate through the front doors and asked me for my name, I shortly replied, "Jackson, I'm here to meet with Abe." He walked me through the building to where Abraham was and picked up another guy that was sitting in the front office on the way to Abraham. Apparently this was an interview style meeting, and I had no clue... I didn't have my resume or my cover letter, the only thing I really had was a pen on the inner pocket of my suit jacket. I sat down on one of the huge chairs in the luxurious office at a table that was covered in some type of animal skin/leather. I soon met the two other people at the table that I have never met before, they were Kev and Cody. Kev has been working with King Aminpour for a while now and Cody was interviewing for an internship with King Aminpour for the summer but only a few hours each week. Kev started to ask Cody and I a bunch of questions about internships with King Aminpour and also gave us an into to what we will be doing in the internship.
Basically they wanted me to start off by marketing with instagram and other platforms of social media, which Abraham knows I a very familiar with because I have done almost the same job with him but for a different industry. Other than being on social media we will also be holding meetings in our office with other jobs who want to have a partnership with King Aminpour or going out to events to reach out to other people for potential partnerships. I will be communicating with people constantly every day so this will be a good time to get my communication skills up and also I may have opportunities to improve my public speaking if we are at events. The way the interview went made it seem like I would be somewhat challenged balancing out quite a handful of tasks I will be faced with but I am glad. The guy that was interviewing, Cody, is in college, a junior at SDSU (which just so happens to be my dream school) told me that this internship would look great on a college and job resume so I am very excited that i got myself into this internship. I know I will be very busy so I'm glad this will be my first experience being in an actual workplace for an eye-opening experience. I'm looking forward to four weeks with some of the coolest, smartest, outgoing people in all of San Diego! |
AuthorMy name is Jackson Bogdan, I am currently in 11th grade class of 2019 attending High Tech High in San Diego, California. We have a chance to have a month-long internship for school and this blog will consist of my experiences during my internship with King Aminpour Injury Lawyer! Categories |