If I were to choose three words to describe the past week, I would say: overwhelmed, excited, and advancing. In the past four days, I have been thrown random projects, assignments, graphics to design, ads to prepare, blogs to write, and even customers to reach out to.

To say I feel valued would be the least. I am, however, feeling very good about things. I feel incorporated and I feel “In it”.

This week, I definitely dove more into the Marketing department. I was tasked with creating graphics and advertisements that will be displayed on our partner’s landing pages (and even got great feedback from the CEO on this work). I was in charge of creating an entire blog post that recapped a monthly webinar. And I also helped work on email header graphics, a monthly job that I have now been assigned from now until the end of the internship.

One of the main things that have come out of this past week, is that I sometimes need just an extra boost to feel that “confidence” I am yearning for within the company. On Monday I was asked to call and talk to a client for the first time, and my immediate response was: “Oh, well maybe tomorrow… I’m not thinking I’m ready for that yet”. Of course, I was still pushed to make the call. And as you could guess, everything went fine. In fact, it went more than fine. Getting past that nerve allowed me to confidently talk to customers this entire week and explain things about the software I didn’t even know I knew. So my goal for the next few weeks is to stop underestimating myself. I was hired because someone was confident that I would be the best fit for this job. And I know have a role to prove and demonstrate that!