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I never got the alternative job on campus, so I’m still stuck at my e-commerce job, and I am more dissatisfied than ever. The pay isn’t enough, the bosses decide not to come in without informing me, the intern, and they have me performing tasks that I feel I should have no hand in. Why do I have to be the one to deal with your crappy web host that has configured their server in such a way that you can’t utilize all the features of an application you pay them to use? Why does my job description say one thing and you have me editing your business card and your company calendar?

I feel like I’m being exploited, and I can’t stand for it much longer. I am generally a very tolerant individual, but no other entry on my resume has caused me as much emotional and mental fatigue. Maybe it’s the transition from the corporate internship I had last summer to this rinky-dink small business here now that I am having the most difficulty adjusting to. I am so ready to quit, but I’m really worried about doing it in a professional manner that won’t leave these people in too much of a squabble to have me replaced. Then again they haven’t shown me much professionalism, so why should I owe it to them?

What should I do? Should I throw niceties out the door for the sake of my own happiness and move on? It’s not like I had any intention of asking them for a reference, so it’s not likely that I’d risk damage to my networking capabilities in the Philly area by quitting. I don’t recall any contracts binding me to this opportunity, so I should be free to leave at any time. It’s just decent to give people notice. I’ve got a lot of thinking to do…

Finals are officially over! I still have one paper to write that I got an extension for, but it’s about gender in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator so I don’t think that it will be very difficult to write, even with the expectation of fifteen pages. Before I get that out of the way, however, I’m going to have to pack up and leave campus. I’ll be staying in Philadelphia with my boyfriend this summer, as well as taking a class. To be honest it’s kind of scary, but I’m sure everything will work out just fine.

Tuesday I have to fill out some paperwork for a job. I’m not completely satisfied with the description, but it will definitely provide some experience in a different arena. It will help me expand my skill base, so it should be great. If it doesn’t work out, there’s always a job on campus that I can apply for. It’s dull, and I’d much rather not have to do it on campus since transportation is so expensive, but it is an alternative, and one I might actually have a little more fun with. If I’m lucky, I should be able to participate in the position off campus or at least for part of the week.

With all the obligations spoken for, I hope to work on sprucing this site up a lot this summer. I want to bring it in the direction of a portfolio, especially since I’ll be a senior next year and I will finally be making my official debut into “the real world.” This is going to take a lot of time and effort, so, it will probably be a while, but I hope to achieve the task before my 21st birthday on the 8th next month. It’s going to be a blast! I have a lot of ideas, and I won’t be home, restricted by my parents with the internet connection, so I should have a lot of opportunities to work on it. In the mean time, this theme will stay up because I’m tired of looking at the default.