Living Out His Fat Boy Fantasies July 21, 2009
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I approximately ate 2.5lbs of beef in one sitting and probably lost a month of my life span, can you say the same thing?
Being back in America and especially having more money than usual due to the internship gives me alot more opportunity to experience dining out and trying out new restaurants while working. Besides the happy hour appetizers offered by Target headquarters (including a $2.95 Half-Pound Cajun Burger), I have also been able to experience some restaurants closer to the University of Minnesota campus which offer college student prices!!! At a local restaurant called Stubs&Herbs, they have this burger challenge where if they finish this 5 pound burger they will name the burger after you. 5 pounds didn’t sound like much so on a random Saturday I decided to starve myself trying to become a legend at the restaurant. I didn’t bother to do the math..4 Quarter Pounds=1 Pound *5 Pounds in This Burger=20 Quarter Pounders from McDonalds. Being a typical, arrogant Cornellian who feels he can accomplish anything I attempted to conquer this burger along with my roommate in a Target intern burger challenge. Just to give you an idea of how ridiculous this burger, I of course took pictures.
When it first came out it didn’t look too intimidating, but when I took the first bite where I was literally drinking grease I knew I was going to die! I made it halfway and by then I was done about ready to throw it all up and officially become a vegetarian. The next two days I couldn’t even look at beef, because of this monster burger.
Here’s a picture of my roommate with the burger compared with a regular sized one to put it in perspective.
Big Man In A Small City July 12, 2009
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Typical conversation with my family and friends when I talk about working in Target.
Friends/Family: What you doing this summer? Any internships?
Me: Yes, I’m working for Target!
Friends/Family: Ugh, like in a store? Are you stacking boxes or something?
Me: No, I’m working for Target Corporate Headquarters in Merchandise Planning as a Business Analyst.
Friends/Family: Oh that sounds really cool, so where is their headquarters?
Me: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friends/Family: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, who goes to Minneapolis? Have fun being in the middle of nowhere. That’s so weird, why do you want to work in Minneapolis?
Me: I don’t really care where I live, it seems like a cool job and I heard Minneapolis has alot of young professionals
Friends/Family: Have fun with that you are going to get bored in like two days. You can go to the Mall of America and a Twins/Vikings game and that’s about all Minneapolis can offer.
Reviewing over these conversations makes me think I have really terrible friends that are some haters because if I’m not working in New York City I’m pegged for failure. It’s been about four weeks since the start of my internship and I just wanted to prove my friends wrong by going over some of the social activities I can do while in Minnesota that keeps me pretty occupied.
The first picture is a picture of a neighborhood known as Dinkytown (I know terrible name doesn’t exactly attract celebrities) in the front with the Kitty Cat Klub which is the best name for a bar I have ever heard. It has alot of bars for happy hour fun, and every Friday/Saturday one of the local restaurants host a salsa night where I am a frequent visitor where they play alot of salsa and raggaeton.
Next of me at the Taste of Minnesota, a concert series which had headliners such as Judas Priest and Bret Michaels. I was enjoying a footlong corn dog. Good Eats!
This is a picture of Lake Calhoun. Weird fact about Minnesota people when they call the lake the beach, which to a person from California makes no apparent sense because I associate beaches with the ocean which Minnesota isn’t located next to the beach last time I checked. I guess they don’t know better.
I could go on and on…..maybe but I was just trying to prove a point that Minnesota has more to offer than meets the eye you just have to dive a little deeper than say L.A. or New York. I’m still enjoying my time here.
Alex The Working Man July 5, 2009
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I have returned to America and since have worked at Target Corporate Headquarters doing what every AEM major loves to do: internships!
My first few days of work completed and I feel I haven’t totally messed up and I might just be lucky enough to receive a full time offer from Target.
My whole goal during training was first to remain awake during the entire training session because I haven’t fully adjusted back to America’s time and on top of that waking up early to go to work. My second goal was to ask questions at any large panel discussions to try to differentiate myself from the other Target interns. Both were accomplished and I was even compliment for asking a good question, which made my day. The panel kept their message simple if you work hard give 110 percent, you will get the offer.
I received my intern location working in Merchandise Planning, Cards/Stationary, which I am really excited about. If I had to put merchandise planning simply, it would be watching inventory levels at all Target stores and making sure all the items needed to make the guests’ (customers) experience a good one. It’s still an industry I relatively have no idea about so I will be sure to ask a million questions as they come up.
The environment seemed alot more open and friendly than Ernst and Young, my previous summer experience. There was also a smaller number of interns with E&Y having about 50 with Target’s 250. Target is always preaching their mantra of fast, fun, and friendly and I have to sure I reflect that. Hopefully through this experience, my personality and strengths will be good enough to solidify a full-time offer because I sure could use one in this state of economic chaos and facing the unknown.
Best part of the job is 10% discount on all Target stuff!