Busy busy summer.. I apologize for the lack of blogging.
This summer I started out so excited to be back working at the Frog. I was looking forward to the fun times there, the old people/customers that I get to see, and of course the money that I make. Now that there is only two weeks left in my summer it's kind of funny how that excitement turned into excited to be done working there. I think I just became drained from the place. I have always loved working there and the people I work with but this summer has just been different. So now I no longer work there.
On the other hand 3 weeks ago I started a new internship. The internship I blogged about before actually didn't end out working out. Once push came to shove the guy bailed without warning.. what can you do? Well the answer is, get a better internship that's paid and a lot more beneficial that could possibly lead to a future job. I started a marketing internship at a brand new orthopedic company in Warsaw, which is exactly where I want to be. I love what I'm doing and the people are great. I am actually working with the vice president of marketing and sales. I couldn't be happier with the way things worked out. It's one big answered prayer.
I am also on a bar sand volleyball league at spikes in Warsaw. We play every Wednesday night and it's a lot of fun.
I got all moved into my new place down in Muncie and it's looking nice! Big living room and kitchen just not a whole ton of storage space in the kitchen so we'll see how that goes. I'm ready to go back to school I just can't believe it's my last year then I'm facing the big bad world. I honestly think I'm ready for it. I ready for change. Something different in my life. A new start. Everyone keeps saying don't rush it, which I don't want to I'm excited for the fun of my senior year but I also am ready for life.
I went to San Diego this summer. It was a good time. Different from Indiana that's for sure!!! It was beautiful.
Right before my little vacation I took two summer classes and made the Deans list.. yay for me! My letter is currently hanging on my parents fridge.
My summer has been pretty busy... hoping to be able to blog more.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
I need more hours in one day!
Busy busy busy... those are the only words to describe how my life has been this past week. It is currently 3:15a.m. and I am working on this ridiculous business law paper. I've been up late every night and getting up early every morning as well. It's funny though, the only people in the library this late are all the business law students working on this paper because we all have to use the same books and none of these books are aloud to leave the library. I think that I have made more friends in my business law class than any other class just because of this stupid paper, so I guess that's a plus.
On top of this unnecessary 20 page paper for an intro level class that I have to write I still have homework, tests, and quizzes in all my other classes plus other homework for that class I'm writing a paper in. I know typical college stuff right? Well that would be all fine and dandy if that was all I was doing... I'm also trying to work on top of that (someone's gotta pay the bills) ;) and I got 2 interviews this week with two different companies.
I received a called over spring break from a company called IKON wanting me to come in for an interview. I said yes if nothing else to get interviewing experience. This was my first professional interview and I was so incredibly nervous. There were two guys interviewing me and the one guy was the guy I gave my resume to at the Career fair and he was extremely nice. At first I know they could tell I was nervous, I was sitting straight as a board, so stiff not moving and I felt very uncomfortable. The guy who was mainly interviewing me said he wanted this interview to seem informal and he just wanted to get to know me, and instantly I loosened up thinking Hey, I know me... this will be easy.. this isn't a test... I can talk about me... what do you want to know I'm an open book...
I think I was so nervous because the classes I have taken the the people I talk to say know the company you're interviewing for, do research, impress them by your knowledge.... So hearing those things made me nervous I did some research to get to know the company but I didn't know exactly what I needed to know I felt like I was studying all the wrong things for a test and I didn't want to go in there looking like a fool... Well I in fact did not. People freaked me out too much about this.. The company wanted to get to know me and my strengths and my goals and what I could contribute to them. I could sit there and be myself. I felt good about myself being able to share my experiences with someone who could use them for their company. I know I'm only a junior but they said they want to keep a relationship with me and know where I'm at and what I'm doing because when I do graduate they want to be there to recruit me.
Some of the things that impressed me about the company the most are that they are very close knit company with their employees. By the way the Director of Sales was talking they hire all their promotions within house and they seek a certain type of person. As he was describing that person I felt deep down that he was describing me to a T and I hope that they got that information from what I had to say. Another thing that I shared was my gymnastics experience and how it related to sales.. had to throw that in there and I feel the need to share on here.. and to be honest I've never really thought of it before until I was speaking it in my interview...
As most all of you know from first hand or previous blogs I was a gymnast and in gymnastics competition is basically and individual sport. You have to work hard to get to be the best, you set goals for yourself you want to achieve and work hard to achieve them, and you can't be afraid to try new things to make yourself stand out. BUT even though you are working hard on your own to achieve your goals you are doing everything FOR your team. Just one person cannot make a team. Everyone's hard work and ability needs to come together to gain true excellence. And this is the same things for what I want to do with my life, SALES as a sales rep I will need to go out and make my own visits, appointments, and calls if I want to succeed... but even though I would be doing this all on my own it is all being done for the company as a whole to make one big team. All the little scores get added to make one big score. Everyone there is a team as well and without the other sales reps it couldn't make a complete team. It is exactly the same.
The sales director said that his daughter was a gymnast and said after watching her practice he said that it had to be the hardest sport ever and that if I could be a gymnast that I could handle anything. It's funny how I thought going into the interview the only highlight I could talk about gymnastics was being captain but I got so much more out of it than that.
Another connection I made was the director of sale's son is on the Ball State football team. Not only do I work at the football stadium but his son is in my business law class and we were working on our paper's together. Lucky for me after my interview I got back to the library and Brooks (the son) was there and said that his Dad and the other interviewer were both really impressed by me that I have a side source to get the information. It made me realize though how important it is to make relationships and network with people. It truly can make all the difference.
I wasn't expecting my blog to be this long. I kinda went on a tangent but I was so excited about my interview I wanted to share.. I could probably go on and on but I'll spare you the reading if you do want to read/hear more feel free to ask. :) I have one more interview tomorrow...
Oh I also just back from spring break so I will surely post about that soon!
On top of this unnecessary 20 page paper for an intro level class that I have to write I still have homework, tests, and quizzes in all my other classes plus other homework for that class I'm writing a paper in. I know typical college stuff right? Well that would be all fine and dandy if that was all I was doing... I'm also trying to work on top of that (someone's gotta pay the bills) ;) and I got 2 interviews this week with two different companies.
I received a called over spring break from a company called IKON wanting me to come in for an interview. I said yes if nothing else to get interviewing experience. This was my first professional interview and I was so incredibly nervous. There were two guys interviewing me and the one guy was the guy I gave my resume to at the Career fair and he was extremely nice. At first I know they could tell I was nervous, I was sitting straight as a board, so stiff not moving and I felt very uncomfortable. The guy who was mainly interviewing me said he wanted this interview to seem informal and he just wanted to get to know me, and instantly I loosened up thinking Hey, I know me... this will be easy.. this isn't a test... I can talk about me... what do you want to know I'm an open book...
I think I was so nervous because the classes I have taken the the people I talk to say know the company you're interviewing for, do research, impress them by your knowledge.... So hearing those things made me nervous I did some research to get to know the company but I didn't know exactly what I needed to know I felt like I was studying all the wrong things for a test and I didn't want to go in there looking like a fool... Well I in fact did not. People freaked me out too much about this.. The company wanted to get to know me and my strengths and my goals and what I could contribute to them. I could sit there and be myself. I felt good about myself being able to share my experiences with someone who could use them for their company. I know I'm only a junior but they said they want to keep a relationship with me and know where I'm at and what I'm doing because when I do graduate they want to be there to recruit me.
Some of the things that impressed me about the company the most are that they are very close knit company with their employees. By the way the Director of Sales was talking they hire all their promotions within house and they seek a certain type of person. As he was describing that person I felt deep down that he was describing me to a T and I hope that they got that information from what I had to say. Another thing that I shared was my gymnastics experience and how it related to sales.. had to throw that in there and I feel the need to share on here.. and to be honest I've never really thought of it before until I was speaking it in my interview...
As most all of you know from first hand or previous blogs I was a gymnast and in gymnastics competition is basically and individual sport. You have to work hard to get to be the best, you set goals for yourself you want to achieve and work hard to achieve them, and you can't be afraid to try new things to make yourself stand out. BUT even though you are working hard on your own to achieve your goals you are doing everything FOR your team. Just one person cannot make a team. Everyone's hard work and ability needs to come together to gain true excellence. And this is the same things for what I want to do with my life, SALES as a sales rep I will need to go out and make my own visits, appointments, and calls if I want to succeed... but even though I would be doing this all on my own it is all being done for the company as a whole to make one big team. All the little scores get added to make one big score. Everyone there is a team as well and without the other sales reps it couldn't make a complete team. It is exactly the same.
The sales director said that his daughter was a gymnast and said after watching her practice he said that it had to be the hardest sport ever and that if I could be a gymnast that I could handle anything. It's funny how I thought going into the interview the only highlight I could talk about gymnastics was being captain but I got so much more out of it than that.
Another connection I made was the director of sale's son is on the Ball State football team. Not only do I work at the football stadium but his son is in my business law class and we were working on our paper's together. Lucky for me after my interview I got back to the library and Brooks (the son) was there and said that his Dad and the other interviewer were both really impressed by me that I have a side source to get the information. It made me realize though how important it is to make relationships and network with people. It truly can make all the difference.
I wasn't expecting my blog to be this long. I kinda went on a tangent but I was so excited about my interview I wanted to share.. I could probably go on and on but I'll spare you the reading if you do want to read/hear more feel free to ask. :) I have one more interview tomorrow...
Oh I also just back from spring break so I will surely post about that soon!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Internship
A few days ago Ball State/Pi Sigma Epsilon (which I recently joined) hosted the largest sales career fair in the nation. So, it was kind of a big deal. Well, I wasn't all that thrilled with my choices of companies to intern with. After talking to companies like Whirlpool, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Hershey, and some student led internships I was more discouraged than anything. Nothing seemed like a good fit for me or anything that I was interested in or could get excited about.
The next day I was pretty discouraged and did a lot of processing and praying about what if I'm in the wrong major, am I really going to get what I want even if I try really hard to get it, is this what God wants me to do with my life... things like that.
About a month ago I wrote down a list of names of people I knew in different companies that could possibly help me get a good internship or people that said they would help me look. I came up with about 12 people. I had tried to contact a few of them but things just weren't falling into place like I would have liked. I continued down my list and contacted Luke Matz via facebook. Over the summer we talked a little about sales and he said when I came to the point of needing an internship he told me to talk to him about it, so I did. We had been emailing back and forth and I was telling him some of the things I was looking for and yesterday I get an email saying, "I can help." What I am going to be doing is co-traveling with Luke and visiting doctors and working at their branch in South Bend one day. He does dental equipment sales. This internship is something much more of what I was leaning towards. I was sooo excited to read that message from him. It works out perfect because I can still take summer classes first summer session. Which I have to take Marketing 300 before I can get credit for an internship anyways. Then I will be on track to graduate July 2012.
Things are really falling into place and I couldn't be happier. It just shows how good God is when I was feeling like giving up he was there.
The next day I was pretty discouraged and did a lot of processing and praying about what if I'm in the wrong major, am I really going to get what I want even if I try really hard to get it, is this what God wants me to do with my life... things like that.
About a month ago I wrote down a list of names of people I knew in different companies that could possibly help me get a good internship or people that said they would help me look. I came up with about 12 people. I had tried to contact a few of them but things just weren't falling into place like I would have liked. I continued down my list and contacted Luke Matz via facebook. Over the summer we talked a little about sales and he said when I came to the point of needing an internship he told me to talk to him about it, so I did. We had been emailing back and forth and I was telling him some of the things I was looking for and yesterday I get an email saying, "I can help." What I am going to be doing is co-traveling with Luke and visiting doctors and working at their branch in South Bend one day. He does dental equipment sales. This internship is something much more of what I was leaning towards. I was sooo excited to read that message from him. It works out perfect because I can still take summer classes first summer session. Which I have to take Marketing 300 before I can get credit for an internship anyways. Then I will be on track to graduate July 2012.
Things are really falling into place and I couldn't be happier. It just shows how good God is when I was feeling like giving up he was there.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Crazy Busy!
It have been quite some time since I have blogged. I have been extremely busy lately but it's been good busy not stress busy. I have been getting more involved in school which is a good thing. Since I have switched my major to business I feel more at home. I really enjoy my classes a lot more even the ones that aren't that fun and I am determined and motivated to get good grades in all my classes. I also recently join Pi Sigma Epsilon. PSE is a business fraternity. And yes girls can be in it.. its coed. Being in PSE for only a short time I've already made new friends and am having a lot of fun. We have gone to a Pacers game, a company called TQL donated $2000 dollars to us and took us to Scotty's Brewhouse for dinner and paid for everything, we've had a bake sale, put on a basketball tournament called Winter Jam.. and so much more. At the end of March we will be going to a PSE National Conference in Orlando and I cannot wait. Not only will we have a lot of fun I'm sure but there will be a career fair there, many workshops, and sale competitions going on. Everyone I talked to says it's a life changing experience and I cannot wait to go.
On top of all that business I am still working at the football stadium everyday and babysitting 3 days a week. I recently started donating plasma but the facility in Muncie stresses me out every time I go because the people or their system or something is so unorganized it's frustrating. I also am making it a habit to do some sort of homework everyday even if I don't technically have any.. which is progress already from last semester. I did end up with good grades last semester though.
We have a sales career fair coming up on Monday. I am still deciding whether or not I'm going to get an internship this summer or not. If I want to graduate somewhat on time I need to take summer classes but its highly recommended that I get an internship.. I may get one in the fall in that case. That is all still up in the air.
Regardless of the busyness in my life I am going to try to blog more to keep you all updated on the wonderful life of Jeni Dunithan because I know how much you all enjoy reading about my life ;)
Untill next time....
On top of all that business I am still working at the football stadium everyday and babysitting 3 days a week. I recently started donating plasma but the facility in Muncie stresses me out every time I go because the people or their system or something is so unorganized it's frustrating. I also am making it a habit to do some sort of homework everyday even if I don't technically have any.. which is progress already from last semester. I did end up with good grades last semester though.
We have a sales career fair coming up on Monday. I am still deciding whether or not I'm going to get an internship this summer or not. If I want to graduate somewhat on time I need to take summer classes but its highly recommended that I get an internship.. I may get one in the fall in that case. That is all still up in the air.
Regardless of the busyness in my life I am going to try to blog more to keep you all updated on the wonderful life of Jeni Dunithan because I know how much you all enjoy reading about my life ;)
Untill next time....
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Miss Claire Hazen
This is Claire Hazen one of the little girls I baby sit and she is the smartest 3 year old I know... but if you had 6 older brothers and sister pretty sure you'd learn a lot too not to mention one younger one.
I baby sit Claire and Lydia (18months) a couple times a week and Claire is hilarious! Lydia pretty much napped the whole time I was there this day so Claire and I had a photo shoot I was trying to teach her to do a fishy face...
I baby sit Claire and Lydia (18months) a couple times a week and Claire is hilarious! Lydia pretty much napped the whole time I was there this day so Claire and I had a photo shoot I was trying to teach her to do a fishy face...
and a kissy face...
and a silly face...
and a cute face...
A few funny stories about Claire... One day I went over to watch her and she looked really sad and sighed really big I said Claire what's wrong and she just pointed across the room to a few toys on the ground. I said what is that stuff bothering you? She said (in a mother like voice) I JUST CLEANED! I about lost it.. bet she's heard that saying a few times before.
Last time I watched her she kept telling me how much she loved me and I just couldn't get enough of it..
Claire: I love you Jeni
Jeni: I love you too Claire
Claire: I love you Jeni
Jeni: I love you more
Claire I love you most
Jeni: I love you A LOT
Claire: I love you a lotest
I had a few videos of her signing some pretty popular songs and it was hilarious because she would sing parts and make the rest up but it amazingly still fit the tune of the song. I also have a few where she made up her own song... I just can't figure out how to get them off my phone.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Summer
Since I didn't blog all summer I figured I'd fill you in on some things that I did.
I work at the Frog A LOT!! This isn't a bad thing.. I was able to save enough money to pay for all my rent for a year plus have quite a bit extra money to live off of.. even though I still have a job down here at school.
I went to Zac Brown Band concert in Ft. Wayne and that was really fun with Laura and Tricia.
I also went to a James Otto concert with my roommate Taylor. Funny story about it... She originally told me it was a Kelli Pickler concert and we were both sooo excited then come to find out she didn't come and they put James Otto in instead. Taylor tells me this the day of which was fine I was going regardless to hang out with her. So her dad is driving all of us and Taylor also told me the concert was in Huntington... nope.. it was in Warren. So I'm thinking I'm going to a Kelli Pickler concert in Huntington and I get James Otto in Warren. Haha gotta love Taylor! We had a blast!
I got to play the cowbell with a band at the Frog, 40% Steve to Low Rider... and I was REALLY good at it! Thinking of starting my own band someday! I had pictures of me playing the cowbell but I don't have access to them... long story but I'm sure you can imagine.
Took a solo train ride to Chicago to stay with my friend Ben who just recently got a job in the big city.. we went to a Cubs game and got 2nd row seats to the right behind the dugout. Ben's building manager for his apartment just gave them to him.. kinda a steal! I don't really follow baseball all the much nor do I have a favorite team but it was really fun to go.
This was the view out of Ben's apartment. If I woke up to that every morning I think I would be so motivated to conquer the world. I've been to Chicago several times mainly to go shopping but Ben showed me all over Wrigleyville and other little "towns" and it was so amazing. I also got to see my first transvesdite and hopefully my last :/
Those are just a few big things I did this summer.. all in all I had a great summer!
I work at the Frog A LOT!! This isn't a bad thing.. I was able to save enough money to pay for all my rent for a year plus have quite a bit extra money to live off of.. even though I still have a job down here at school.
I went to Zac Brown Band concert in Ft. Wayne and that was really fun with Laura and Tricia.
I also went to a James Otto concert with my roommate Taylor. Funny story about it... She originally told me it was a Kelli Pickler concert and we were both sooo excited then come to find out she didn't come and they put James Otto in instead. Taylor tells me this the day of which was fine I was going regardless to hang out with her. So her dad is driving all of us and Taylor also told me the concert was in Huntington... nope.. it was in Warren. So I'm thinking I'm going to a Kelli Pickler concert in Huntington and I get James Otto in Warren. Haha gotta love Taylor! We had a blast!
I got to play the cowbell with a band at the Frog, 40% Steve to Low Rider... and I was REALLY good at it! Thinking of starting my own band someday! I had pictures of me playing the cowbell but I don't have access to them... long story but I'm sure you can imagine.
Took a solo train ride to Chicago to stay with my friend Ben who just recently got a job in the big city.. we went to a Cubs game and got 2nd row seats to the right behind the dugout. Ben's building manager for his apartment just gave them to him.. kinda a steal! I don't really follow baseball all the much nor do I have a favorite team but it was really fun to go.
This was the view out of Ben's apartment. If I woke up to that every morning I think I would be so motivated to conquer the world. I've been to Chicago several times mainly to go shopping but Ben showed me all over Wrigleyville and other little "towns" and it was so amazing. I also got to see my first transvesdite and hopefully my last :/
Those are just a few big things I did this summer.. all in all I had a great summer!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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