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The end or the start?

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Hi all,

this is my last blog entry for the Bamboosk8 internship. To you all that are starting this internship soon, good luck. It will change the way you see things, you’ll make lots of friends, you’ll learn a lot about action sports, skateboarding, people and business.

To those that worked with me for the last 4 months, thanks for all your effort and for helping me when I needed it. I hope to see you guys soon and work with you again.

To Mark, Geoff K, Geoff C and Jacquelyn, thanks for all your knowledge and friendliness. I can’t wait to meet you guys and work with you again in the near future.

4 months ago I was wondering what to do after I finished my studies and I didn’t have much experience or quantifiable results to show to prospective employers. Now, after 16 weeks I have a baggage of knowledge, confidence, experience and quantifiable results to go ahead with my career and I know I will stand above the crowd of job seekers.

I can’t thank enough everyone for their time and support, I wish actually I met you guys earlier, but this is where my destiny is taking me right now.

If you’re looking for a positive change in your life and all the other internships never filled that void, well, buckle up for the roller-coaster of your life. You’ll sweat a lot and you’ll be tested to your limits, but every week you’ll see how much you’re learning in sales, PR, marketing, finance and what others take years of work to learn or are never given the chance.

I consider myself lucky, being part of this class and having these people take time from their daily jobs to create something meaningful for future graduates or current university/college students is something that you won’t find anywhere and I know. I searched all of Europe, Australia and USA for this and only Bamboosk8 accepted me and had what I was looking for…real, quantifiable experience that I could then use to get a job in the action sport industry or whatever it is that you’re looking for.

Thanks again for making my life so hard at times, now I have the bigger picture and I know it was all worth it.

Bamboosk8 rocks!!!

Gabriel Ghigi

Tags: Alissa, bamboosk8, David, Gavin, geoff c, geoff koboldt, Jacquelyn Purvis, Jamie, Jessi, malakye.com, mark olson, marketing, Michelle, pr, sales, tameka
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Almost there!

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

It’s week 14 in the internship, we have done a lot to get here and it was worth it.

I’m already thinking f the next step. After all, this was a stepping stone to go onto greater things. Everyone’s putting in a lot of effort to reach the goals we were given at the start of the internship to pass the stage and get a good reference. Alissa, just found a way to get more active on Hook it, we just had a new deal for 2 deck for the price of one going online, Gavin has closed a deal with another e-commerce website called Krush who’s selling our gear for two weeks, Tameka has been organising our final event and it’s almost ready to go. Jamie has been working hard this week to get all he files uploaded to the network so we’re all up to speed with commitments, Michelle has been leading the way with the math for us in finding a way to make a future company works in an exam we took earlier in the internship. David has been killing it on Twitter with a 300 more people added to the account and getting some clips for the Panda suit. Jessi is driving people to Facebook like no other and numbers are going up and up.

The points are flying everywhere and in the meantime we’re finding new ways to improve the internship and make life easier and better to the next batch of interns that will start after us. We have now only two weeks left. Next week we’ll go ahead with a final interview to see how we use the STAR method and to get that hard to get job in the action sport or wherever others want to go. I wish I was there to party and the final event we’ve been putting together, but it will do just by passing the internship or I’ll be super devo because I’ve put so much effort into it.

To the new interns starting soon and whoever reads this blog and wonders if doing this or not I say just go and do it. The worst it can happen is that you learn more than you would think of regarding yourself and your professionalism. Sure it’s hard work and it’s free, but it’ll give you an edge towards other people looking for a job.

One last thing, go check our Hook it contest Prop My Deck