My bachelor’s degree is in communications. I interned at a cable company for six weeks my senior year in 1973.
I was also working at Kroger’s nights and weekends as produce clerk which I did my last two years of college.
I learned more working produce at Kroger’s.
I was working alongside a bunch of Harvard MBAs who taught me a ton about how to manage a business, treat people, and make money.
I had interns assigned to me when I was a new manager. I found them to be practically useless as they were more interested in forming messages about how HBO should be programmed. Clearly, at the local level, that was going to be a hard nut to crack. They had no interest in learning about scheduling overtime, training agents, or dealing with the power surges in our studio. They were going to work on Madison Ave.
I am not suggesting YOU were useless. But in our environment you would have been tossed in with our Local programming people. At best, that meant you would announce local high school hockey games. LOL.
My wife was a comm major about the time you were. I can imagine her losing her mind as a college senior working in our company.
I learned a bunch working produce for the local Food Mart in college as well. You learn what you can, where you are.
I think it’s worked out OK for both of us.