{"id":1434,"date":"2017-11-16T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2017-11-16T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:18:49","slug":"the-value-of-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/the-value-of-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of a Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that being a web designer or a journalist would be an independent job. With so much of the work being done on a computer\u2014be it typing, editing, or working in a program like Photoshop\u2014very little involves human interaction. Thus, I thought my work as a web intern would be relatively independent as well.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The past few weeks have taught me otherwise.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When my supervisor, Dr. Nathan Wolek, was out of the office sick, I still met with my faculty advisor, Laura Glander. The meeting was productive and concise. We listed a few tasks, I took notes, and that week&#8217;s job got done. But parts of the system I had grown familiar with fell apart. There were areas outside of Laura&#8217;s expertise that I needed to question Dr. Wolek about. I realized quickly that I was far from self-sufficient. My tasks were not going to get done unless I figured something out of my own, did a bit of trouble-shooting, and carved a path to the answers I needed.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The following week, Laura was out of town. Then the week after that, Dr. Wolek\u00a0was unable to attend our weekly meeting.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My faculty adviser and supervisor are back, and I&#8217;m thankful. More gets done at a meeting and time is used more efficiently. We can plan ahead for future projects and there&#8217;s room for me to ask questions about improvement, both things that cannot do on my own. As much as my mix of journalism and web work is a solo job, I&#8217;m coming to understand how valuable a team can be.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that being a web designer or a journalist would be an independent job. With so much of the work being done on a computer\u2014be it typing, editing, or working in a program like Photoshop\u2014very little involves human interaction. Thus, I thought my work as a web intern would be relatively independent as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/the-value-of-a-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Value of a Team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}