Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Half Way Done

I'm officially past the half-way point of my internship, and I'm fairly satisfied with how far I've come so far. The position has been monumentally educational. It's amazing all the things I've picked up on the job. Just yesterday, one of the designers I work with asked me to critique some mocks he made. To think, just a couple months ago, that a designer at Google would ask me for feedback would have been unbelievable (let alone that I would actually have something to say).

I've started to dig pretty deeply into my main intern project. It's challenging but fun at the same time. After working here for a month and a half, I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that I think I would really enjoy the APM (Associate Product Manager) role. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to the staffing coordinator for the program, and since then, I've had lunch with two current APMs. From what they've told me, it sounds like it would be just right for me: getting things done through coordination, organization, and execution.