This week was the first week where nothing really happened at work. My brother came home, but obviously that’s home, not at the shop. The majority of the week was spent updating the last few mistakes I’d missed in my first round. Any time I didn’t spend doing work tasks like swapping the water jugs or taking packages or letters to the post office was largely spent in front of the work computer. Not that I mind that at all, I just occasionally wish that the tasks were more challenging, not just more tedious. I understand that is largely the nature of internship work, but after a full 4 days, going on the daily lunch run is like an adventure. An adventure to La Oaxaqueña or Burgerfi for the staff’s lunch is a once-daily affair of varying quantity, as some staff choose to bring their own lunches instead. I apologize for the long slumber on entries, I genuinely didn’t know what to write about for 250 words and I still don’t. Again, I apologize, but this is just the kind of thing that sometimes happens in Naples. Nothing sometimes happens in Naples. I will be delivering on Week 4 by the end of the week and Week 5 at the beginning of next or over the weekend. Thank you for your patience.

During my 2nd week of work, the workload I was given had slowed down considerably. I’m now regularly relied upon to use my relative experience with websites and social media to innovate upon our current systems, which are relatively outdated. Among my improvements will be a new tagging system to organize photos and videos, new ways to take photos for our clients, the list will keep growing as long as I can keep finding improvements to make. I’ve again been called to fill some social media requirements, as my boss has asked me to create short 30-second videos to intersperse and fill our social media distribution for a few months. As i’m proficient with Premier Pro, that shouldn’t be hard at all. Simple fades from picture to picture with a backing track will be more than sufficient. I’m somewhat frequently asked to use the company’s money to buy things they deem necessary, like new cameras or printing services. Much of the time, they come to me not to actually buy anything, but to help them decipher and decide the best option for their purposes and needs. Not everyone knows what picture resolution is, apparently. We have a ”picture day” scheduled on next week’s Friday. It will apparently not be a short ordeal, and should take no less than 4 hours. As a photographer, I understand that the photographic process takes time, but it will still be 4 hours that I won’t be able to use for work. I might be able to sneak my IPad on site and get some work done on the side while they’re busy filming.