Intern office attire: DRESS TO IMPRESS.
Real job attire: Whatever the hell you can find that doesn't smell like mud.
When your boss IMs and asks you to do something as an intern: OMG, yes, anything you want! I'll do it right now!
When your boss IMs and asks you to do something at a real job: LOL, ZERO FUCKS.
Intern job responsibilities: sort pens.
Real job responsibilities: everything you can't trust an intern to do.
Office parties as an intern: You're too nervous to drink.
Office party at a real job: You get blackout drunk.
When you run out of things to do as an intern:
When you run out of things to do at a real job:
Leaving on Friday as an intern:
Leaving on Friday at a real job:
Internship: feeling a little miffed about having to get the boss coffee.
Real job: begging other people to go out for ice coffee with you.
Excel when you're an intern: completely impossible to understand.
Excel when you have a real job: ask the intern.
Notes you take while in an important meeting as an intern:
Notes you take at a real job:
Lunch as an intern: picking it up for everyone else.
Lunch at real job: staying at your desk and snarfing whatever bullshit the intern brings back.
Intern: make a mistake and no one is at all surprised.
Real job: make a mistake and there are REAL AND TERRIFYING CONSEQUENCES.
How you get through the day as an intern: fake smiling.
How you get through the day at a real job: long lunches, coffee runs, and talking about food.
Surfing Facebook as an intern: do it for two seconds, then erase your browser activity.
Surfing Facebook at a real job: do it all damn day.
What you do after work as an intern: drink.
What you do after work at a real job: drink, hang out with your cat, and hate yourself for being hungover the next day.
