Work

My employee card plus Moleskine notebook/journal

The short break I am privileged of having before I fly to Japan has allowed me to have work and today I just had my taste of the corporate world as an intern in Summit Media. Summit Media houses the country’s popular magazine labels such as Cosmopolitan, FHM, Preview and many more. Choosing to work in the cubicles of a magazine company over those of a gargantuan Filipino-owned food company is partly hugely because of my exposure to Western shows showing the upbeat and exciting environment in a magazine workplace. Oooh, does Ugly Betty ring a bell?

Images of employees dressed up in fancy clothes, bigwigs carrying their Birkins and people whispering about the latest gossip about celebrities and their own co-workers swirled in my head last night whilst imagining myself being immersed in a workplace often stereotyped as a nest of the flamboyant and fashion-forward. All these prejudices that I’ve built from the images fed to me by shows like Ugly Betty are what I brought with me as I graced through the glass doors of Summit Media. Also, I entered the office with an enraptured and hopeful spirit optimistic that I will be given exciting assignments only to be disappointed to leave the glass doors with only clerical stuff accomplished for the day. But I’m still hopeful that I will be given more exciting work in the coming days. )

Filing the documents

I must say that even though I was given mundane work – filing documents, counting ads in a magazine and listing each down – which was completely disjointed from what I envisioned my first day of work to be, the environment where I was at composed of different and colorful people very much compensated for my dry and boring first day work. It was the ultimate Ugly Betty experience.