internship goes fail

hey everybody

my school is okay, but i'm sad about intern ship.
i failed the first intern ship company because i was sitting in the toilet there for an hour and walked away cuz of an anxiety attack. and i was very insecure about all the mistakes i make. we were visiting ppl and i needed to set up a radiostation but i couldn't take any iniative because my boss wasn't telling me to do stuff. i was just standing and waiting. afterwards he said i should've taken iniative and help him, like all the other stagaires. i feel so stupid. :(

so that intern ship was quited by the boss. he thought i wasn't doing good there. i did build a website for him, and i was editing commercials for his radio station.

well, now i'm at an internship at a service desk, and i need to build computers. the problem is, is that the people there, never help me to start do stuff, i sit, and nobody tells me to do something, i'm afraid of taking iniative, and i feel like my whole life *****.

so what the hell am i supposed to do now?

they now changed my schedule to only 3,5 hours a day (the morning) and i'm at time out, a group where i can talk about stuff on the tuesday. but it's all ****ed up. i feel like, it all doesn't make sense :(

when i enter the room, i sit down, for like an hour, and they still won't tell me, while they do notice me (even the boss), until i ask them, what can i do? and sometimes even that doesn't get me any further because there are a lot of stagaires so they are working and i just have to ''watch what their doing''.

i do like the classical lessons on monday, i can work from the books, i can make assignments, the teachers tell me what to do. but on intern ship i fail.

how should i change my own behaviour?

i feel guilty and like a stupid wreck.
 
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hardy

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Was working at a mechanic shed....luckily the owner was a friend. So i got treated okay. The older mechanics were like, 'don't come near me, i have a job to do. I can't help you now'.

So i was advised to work at the place where there are simpler jobs ( at the shed). I started by making small talks and then helping the people there by providing them any assistance i could. Some days i was overly anxious and that caused problems. i learned its not good to do too much. If i am too anxious, i leave.

I think this is how we need to build confidence....and later on proceed for bigger things. start slow.Also please see if you can try Meditation....it helps me. Google ' Vipassana' for meditation.
 
Thanks man. It's nice that you could leave whenever you felt anxious. My school is also very flexible for only let me go to intern ship in the mornings. All though the barrier will be still big, for me. It's like a huge barrier. I feel self concious in that room like literally all the time, I cannot concentrate on work and I am just thinking like ''I am feeling so anxious, i'm hyperventilating, I need to escape''. But I always should pick the danger instead of my safety. For other's it's not scary, it's very hard for ppl to understand. It might even sound funny to ppl at school.

Meditation is a very nice suggestion. I have meditated sometimes, I really should keep up with it. I'm not very disciplined. I am chaotic. I really 'need' meditation to change that fact. Thank you for sharing.
 

laure15

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It seems like the people at your internship are not willing to train you, which sucks. If you want to perform well at your internship, you need to ask people for help.
I also suck at asking people for help because I'm anxious and don't want to look dumb.
 

truffleshuffle

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It seems like the people at your internship are not willing to train you, which sucks. If you want to perform well at your internship, you need to ask people for help.
I also suck at asking people for help because I'm anxious and don't want to look dumb.
I'm the same way and feel so stupid when I don;t understand something. but I will say the longer you are there doing your internship I think the more comfortable you will become around those people and the situation. It might also help you in the future to not be so anxious in those situations.
 
Rule number 1 at stage: If they don't tell you what to do, never sit alone doing nothing. Ask them if there is anything you can help with, ask anyone you can. If no one has time to help you then it's not your fault.
The school was very serious with us about this.
In the beginning it is hard to get used with the environment and everything, I know.
 
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