My name is Raechel Erenwert. I have been interning with Alamo Drafthouse for the past month and a half. Over that span of time, I have grown and learned much about the professional world.
My experience has been full of fun, hard work and rewards.
I have been working with my site supervisor very diliently, and I have come to learn much about how things work at the Alamo. Life is stressful, interesting and always changing.
I have been working in the Private and Corporate Events Department as an intern, but I have also been training to be an event coordinator. This entails planning the events, scheduling servers, corresponding with clients, managers and staff, executing the events and following up with staff and clients after the completion of the event.
Along with those responsibilities, I have been composing a detailed inventory for the South Lamar location, as well as being a point of control for the other two Alamo locations, the Ritz and the Village. I have even started creating checklists for each event to help aid in lessoning the loss of the department's inventory.
With all of this, I have also managed some other projects within the department. I have created a couple of personalized catering menues for various events, edited the department's marketing materials and shopped for various props for the events, like items for a glamour shot's booth (it was for a Napoleon Dynamite party).
This internship has shown me how hard it is going to be in the "real" world. The most surprising and depressing thing I've encountered at the Alamo is the abundence of people with college degrees that can not find a "job", so they work instead for very low wages. This is no doubt part of the consequences of our current economic plight.
However, I am happy to announce that I have interviewed for a paying entry level position in the department, and I got the job! I am looking forward to starting my journey up the corporate ladder!