- Interns,
it's not what you're going to learn this summer.
As a matter of fact, 94% of you are gonna
take jobs where they're gonna teach
you dumbass shit
or stuff that you already know.
They're mailing in their internships.
Interns, it's not about what you're going to learn
this summer, my friends,
it's going to be who you meet.
Please understand as you go into this internship
maximize networking.
Shake hands, kiss babies.
If you're a wallflower,
don't even do internships.
Not the classic way.
Obviously, you have a skill to learn.
You're lucky enough to be a developer
or something like that but fine.
But if you're an intern,
please understand it is the human connections
that you're gonna make.
Way too many people roll in and think they're going
to learn something about advertising or
marketing or media or startups.
You're not. You're just not.
You're not. Just saving you time.
And if you do, it's just this much.
It's 3% of the equation.
Please attack the other 97.
Go to every after hours event.
Say hello to everybody.
If you go into an office where everybody's head down,
it's not that kind of culture,
figure it out. Hack it.
Be the obnoxious intern that was too bubbly.
And make sure you attach yourself,
even if you go into an office, law firm
where everybody is head down,
if you see that one person that looks up
and gives you a glimmer of people skills
attach yourself to that person.
Let them bring you to things.
Interns, use this time wisely.
Way too many of you go in and you think
you're gonna get something.
And in reality, the magic was sitting right in front of you.
And the punchline, my friends,
is it's the people.
It's the people.
It's the people that you meet in that office that go work
somewhere else, that are reminded by your hustle
and tenacity and good natureness
and offense and you went for it, you attached for it
you wanted it
and they're the ones that
give you the opportunities.
This is a very simple world.
This is a people world.
Not the black and white skills you learned this
summer in eight weeks.
Half of you are going to get coffee and do dumb shit
'cause they disrespected you inappropriately.
So please, even if you are in that 50% that's getting
dumb shit and coffees and things of that nature,
say hello. Drop a coffee off to somebody and they've
got a Cardinals pennant and you know something
about the Cardinals, say something.
Say something about Adam Wainwright.
Create relationships.
It is the only KPI.
It is the only ROI of an internship.