Group 2 Post 4

I worked at my internship about 10 hours a week, between 2 days. A typical day would go as follows:

• Arrive and chat with everyone about how the week has been going.
• Log onto computer and check email
• Follow up emails or phone calls
• Check the "intern to do list"
• PHONE CALLS

I was one of 4 regular interns during my time with R Entertainment.  We had a few come and go but the 4 of us were there for most of the year.  Theoretically, we had an "intern do do list" but I was generally exempt from that because of the work I did on the "Check, Please! Arizona Festival." It was my job to contact the restaurants that had been featured on the show and get them to participate in the festival.  I had almost an entire legal pad of notes for what restaurants were interested, who was a definite participant, who to call back, who not to call and what steps they needed to take after my calls. Once we got the number of restaurants we wanted, I needed paperwork from them.  This included licenses, menus, chef bios and pictures and what type of protein they wanted donated.  We worked on sponsorships from different meat suppliers to get the protein donations.  It was nice to have Channel Eight, Arizona PBS behind us because they are such a reputable company and they had a lot of strong relationships already.  

Because it's a production company, events were a big part of my internship.  There were events that we were basically required to attend and help out with and others were optional- some we were even paid for! We did everything from selling merchandise at concerts to walking around with chefs at festivals to numbering chairs and selling beer. Basically, if someone needed help with something day-of, we were there to take care of it.