Week One Round Up

It was a good week I think getting to know my coworkers, becoming accustomed to my surroundings, figuring out my schedule and trying to figure out my job.

I am working for Belltown Media which manages the website for Linux Journal. So I am getting myself educated about the open source revolution.

My boss is a lady by the name of Katherine Druckman. She is younger than me which is not surprising. I would guess her to be in about her early 30s. She is nice enough. The others in the office are Mark, Tracey and Carlie. I don't know what Mark and Tracey's jobs are yet, I think Mark is involved in the management of the office, but I do know that Carlie is the owner of the company. There are several others with the company, but these are the only ones that work in this office.

The main thing I intend to accomplish during my internship is to master using the content management system Drupal. It's a very extensive program, and I am very excited to be working with it.

The most of what I did my first week aside from getting set up in my work environment was read documentation about Drupal. I have a lot more of that to do before I will have the confidence to actually begin using the program.

Other than that I am being required to delete spam from the websites messageboards. That's a tedius job, but it's got to be done. So long as I am allowed to do the other things I don't mind taking care of this daily drudgery.

The Night Before

I begin my internship tomorrow. I'm pretty excited actually. I haven't had a job in over two years and I've gotten pretty accustomed to the life of a student.

I'm also a bit nervous. I'm going to be working with a new group of people that I don't know much about. I hope that I like them and they like me. My impression from the interview is they are a pretty laid back group which suits me very well. At any rate, I'll know much more about the situation by the end of this week.

I'm going to work for a company that manages a website for a magazine about Linux. I know very little about Linux so I'll need to come up to speed on that rather quickly. There will be a lot of content management using Joomla. I am very interested in learning how to use this software so I am excited to be doing that.

Karen, my supervisor emphasized in the interview that I would be spending some of my time monitoring spam on the messageboards. I hope this doesn't occupy too much of my time as I feel it would be a waste of my internship. We'll have to see how that goes.

Tomorrow is the day I begin.