Blogging at work, surely this is a new low.

[elowena]

I've been back at my internship for two days and I've finished the work that was supposed to take me two weeks and which was the reason I was asked to come back after Mum's little ordeal. There are many good things about work (or "work"), including getting paid and having time to blog, but I'm also going barmy with boredom. Related to this, I've

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[emmuzka]

Counting out traveling, it sounds about my job ;) (I'm a communications consultant and media analyst in a communications agency in Helsinki) I don't remember what your main subject is, but you should apply as a trainee in a communications agency. Most of them take a trainee to do proof-reading ect. for their busy season in January-March. Some of them continue as summer workers or get employed for real.

[elowena]

Sounds promising - and like a really cool job, so congrats! And now for the dumb question, what exactly is it that you do? Say, what does your average work day consist of? I think one of my biggest problems is not having any idea what titles like "consultant" or "media analyst" mean in practice, on a very day-to-day level. (I've occasionally tried to browse some occupational descriptions but they're always couched in such vague terms.)

I'm studying something completely different (Classics and English), but I have actually been thinking about maybe doing some Communications and Journalism studies just to see what it's like.

[emmuzka]

Hmmm. today I made a daily english summary of the company's media coverage in Finnish media for the company X, and then I made the same to company Y. Then I surfed the net trying to find out what kind of mining industry trade papers there are in the world. Then I translated a newspaper article from finnish to english, and translated an offer from a subcontractor to a client that needed it *right then*. Then I did some proof reading for an annual report, fought with out swedish IT helpdesk about who in our company is able to send mass e-mails, tried to tinker around in a press release service that we are trying out, and wrote a job satisfaction survey for internal use.

That's about it for today. I actually end up doing a lot of translating. I'm not that good at it, but good enough, and I'm *fast as hell* when I'll have to do both summarizing and translating.

[emmuzka]

And now I'm kinda embarrased by the zillion mistakes I made with my English. Oh well ;)