Take An Intern To Work Day

I'm a student member of a national interior design association and they have an annual job shadowing week. Students are paired with designers all over the country and they get to spend a day following them and learning how they work.

I signed up to follow this cool designer named Deborah who is working as a consultant for E!, Style Network and G4 Channels. Since she is doing so much for them, they had her move her office to their headquarters down by museum row in LA. So On Friday, I got to spend an entire day there.

I won't say that it was gourmet cupcakes and free massages all day, but it was awesome. This facility is HUGE. It's like a giant maze with 2 entire floors, and part of three other ones and is designed very cool with the exposed ceilings and bright colors. We got to go through the studios where they film some of the shows and saw lots of the editing spaces that look like these dark caves where people work. I did get to have some hands on design work as I did some space planning for the expansion where Ryan Seacrest's "team" will be moving their offices. We also met with several of the team members for the buildout during the day.

It was a very busy day and I was a little sad that I had to go home. However, once I drove the hour home in traffic, I was happy to see my girls with Jeff who had taken the day off work and played Mr. Mom-well, sort of :)