"Corporate Isn't for You, Is It?"

There was a "former intern panel" at ACE today, which included two interns and two full-time workers, and I'm not sure either of them were actually interns at ACE. I didn't get a whole lot out of it, but I guess I did have some questions I was curious about.

The first I asked was what ACE thought about working from home. I think I may be able to convince myself to work in the corporate world under some circumstances, and this one may play a part. Either that, or the building needs to be REALLY close to my house, or I need to be able to pick my own hours well under forty per week. She said they were largely cool with it, especially in the summer, but that you need to build up trust, and your managers will know if you're doing work or not.

The second - which I asked later - was about "vacation" time. I asked her if there was anything they could do for people who wanted to push all of their vacation time or roll it over, if that were possible, such that they could actually have a meaningful abroad experience rather than some vacation at a resort/beach, which I said I was not interested in at all. She said it might be possible to take three weeks of vacation all at once, or more when you've worked up to it, but that you really can't roll it over like that. Later a girl came to me and said that her dad works there and has like five vacation weeks per year, and that he's been considering doing something like that, but that it takes a lot of organization and planning for the seventy days when you'll be gone, and that discourages a lot of people from doing it.

Before I left the room even, her brother had come up to me and said, "So the corporate world really isn't for you, is it?"

I didn't know I was being that obvious.

Peace out.