What major problems or frustrations have you experienced or observed in your work? How did you handle it?
I initially had some issues in figuring out the correct balance of the requirements for the Parks and Recreation Department and the Public Information Officer when it came to our Open Data stories. Each department had different elements they wanted to add or remove in the stories, and by the time those changes were requested, we only had 2 weeks left of our internship. We had made a couple of drafts of our stories, that had to be edited repeatedly because of either too much or too less of something, which at times was kind of frustrating. So after I learned that things were getting a bit disorganized within our team, I started organizing the tasks needed to be done by each of us based on our best abilities. Our respective responsibilities on this project therefore contributed to the final product in a much more positive and fair way. I feel like that decision of mine made us feel more confident in our own abilities because now when we look back at our work, we can point out the things we specifically did. However, the frustration I experienced during that project actually helped understand more of what the real working atmosphere is like. It's not like school where you take a test and that grade is there for history - work there had more flexibility and communication within a team. Therefore, the idea of good teamwork played a major role in overcoming those little problems that would occur throughout our internship experience.
I initially had some issues in figuring out the correct balance of the requirements for the Parks and Recreation Department and the Public Information Officer when it came to our Open Data stories. Each department had different elements they wanted to add or remove in the stories, and by the time those changes were requested, we only had 2 weeks left of our internship. We had made a couple of drafts of our stories, that had to be edited repeatedly because of either too much or too less of something, which at times was kind of frustrating. So after I learned that things were getting a bit disorganized within our team, I started organizing the tasks needed to be done by each of us based on our best abilities. Our respective responsibilities on this project therefore contributed to the final product in a much more positive and fair way. I feel like that decision of mine made us feel more confident in our own abilities because now when we look back at our work, we can point out the things we specifically did. However, the frustration I experienced during that project actually helped understand more of what the real working atmosphere is like. It's not like school where you take a test and that grade is there for history - work there had more flexibility and communication within a team. Therefore, the idea of good teamwork played a major role in overcoming those little problems that would occur throughout our internship experience.
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