Field Experience

As you all know, I'm not just a wife and a mother,  but a graduate student, too. After this current semester I'll only have 2 courses left: field experience and an elective of my choice. The plan is to take these 2 classes over the summer so I can graduate in August.

The field experience course requires me to obtain an internship that will allow me to get 150 hours of instruction/experience outside the virtual classroom. The internship requirement has me feeling rather anxious. I know I need the hands-on experience if I want to start my career, and I look forward to it. I'm just anxious about finding an assignment. Although I live in an area that has some of the best job opportunities in the country, it's been hell locating a company looking for an HR intern.

So far I've applied to Blue Cross Blue Shield and IBM, but now I'm considering venturing out of my comfort zone/geographic area. There's a Volvo Group HR internship in Greensboro. I've worked in Greensboro before. I've lived there before. It's not my favorite place and I dread the hour commute. But something about this internship opportunity speaks to me because I believe it will lead to a fulltime position. I need a fulltime position upon graduation because I need to start my career.

I just keep thinking if I do apply for the internship and actually get the position, who will watch my darling Baby O while I work. Will she suffer from separation anxiety? Will she miss me? Will she cry? Shoot, will I suffer anxiety and cry? Probably....but I gotta make it happen so that I can give my baby girl all she needs and some of her other heart's desires.

I gotta get this application poppin!