If you are seeing more benefit from working on your own and producing software you truly believe will succeed use that as motivating platform to become an unsung hero in your niche while at the same time proving to be an asset with the company. This may result in becoming a full-time employee and later on down the road a promotion and bigger paycheck.
On becoming a corporate slave:
Try not to look at it like this. As I mentioned, become an asset early on, but establish a pace in which you can work. Corporate work is very important to have in your tool belt as it shows you have the capacity to work in a very structured environment, and have the ability to interface with multiple levels of personnel. Yes it can be demotivating, but see above on being an unsung hero.
On being effective:
Tell them this. Show them that you want to take on some challenge and responsibility, but remind them you do know your role in the company as an intern and want to maximize the best of that situation. I mention this particularly because I was offered an internship with a radio station with the webmaster. Halfway through the interview it became apparent that the individual was very inexperienced, and only received the job she had because she knew more than the rest of the company about HTML and CSS. It became even more apparent that she was only looking for an intern to perform grunt work and left absolutely no room for growth (not to mention I knew much more about web development than she did). I declined the offer, but was also hired by the IT department at the same radio station as an analyst and I don't regret it one bit.
On being happy:
Do whatever brings about that feeling of joy. If it means leaving the company and following your own path, but receiving a smaller paycheck, by all means go for it. If you're happy doing what you do best, and if it works, no one can tell you otherwise.
These are lessons that I had to learn the very hard way throughout the past 3 years, but I don't regret enduring it one bit.
If you are seeing more benefit from working on your own and producing software you truly believe will succeed use that as motivating platform to become an unsung hero in your niche while at the same time proving to be an asset with the company. This may result in becoming a full-time employee and later on down the road a promotion and bigger paycheck.
On becoming a corporate slave:
Try not to look at it like this. As I mentioned, become an asset early on, but establish a pace in which you can work. Corporate work is very important to have in your tool belt as it shows you have the capacity to work in a very structured environment, and have the ability to interface with multiple levels of personnel. Yes it can be demotivating, but see above on being an unsung hero.
On being effective:
Tell them this. Show them that you want to take on some challenge and responsibility, but remind them you do know your role in the company as an intern and want to maximize the best of that situation. I mention this particularly because I was offered an internship with a radio station with the webmaster. Halfway through the interview it became apparent that the individual was very inexperienced, and only received the job she had because she knew more than the rest of the company about HTML and CSS. It became even more apparent that she was only looking for an intern to perform grunt work and left absolutely no room for growth (not to mention I knew much more about web development than she did). I declined the offer, but was also hired by the IT department at the same radio station as an analyst and I don't regret it one bit.
On being happy:
Do whatever brings about that feeling of joy. If it means leaving the company and following your own path, but receiving a smaller paycheck, by all means go for it. If you're happy doing what you do best, and if it works, no one can tell you otherwise.
These are lessons that I had to learn the very hard way throughout the past 3 years, but I don't regret enduring it one bit.