My Summer Internship With the Chiefs

Duringthe Summer 2010 Training Camp with the Kansas City Chiefs I was able to intern with the Marketing Manager of the Chiefs, Jeremy Slavens, as well his own intern Jared Aeschbach, and my Professor Dr. Hardy. They gave me assignments as well as the other interns in camp with me, and the assignments they were to do simple jobs that need to be done to run a good event like the training camp was. Some of the jobs have been really easy, some have been somewhat difficult. None were extremely hard, though all of us put in tons of hours, sometimes from 6:30 a.m. all the way till 9:00 p.m. Even then though, there was a lot of downtime, and we were even able to go home as we would get close to a two hour break during those days. The camp was very beneficial to me and doing this intern was a great choice that I made.

This internship gave me three credits to my College here at Missouri Western State University. It was a well earned three credits, especially since we had to do assignments we would have to do in a regular class, such as attend on time to camp, listen to your professor as well as type a couple pages for class. Camp was fun at times, and at other times not so great. Some of the people I had to work with were not that great to talk to, as sometimes they would gripe and didn't want to do what they were asked. Instead of telling the bosses or their professor how they feel, they complained to their peers and acted like everybody should feel the way they do. Other things I could have lived without was doing jobs that other people were getting paid to do, such as what the St. Joseph Police Department should be doing, the paid interns from Missouri Western or the Chiefs own security. I guess I didn't mind doing some things like helping them, but seeing them do nothing and I had to do their work was not something I enjoyed doing. I did not expect things like that to happen at camp, but I live with it, mostly because I have to in order to receive my credits.

The fun parts about thd internship was meeting new, great people and experiencing the "behind-the-scenes" part of how an event should be run; little things, such as helping people go where they are suppose to, arriving at the event early and staying well after to clean up, talk to others about what were good things about the event and bad things, and other little things, details, as Jeremy was always preaching. All of us interns ate at the cafeteria, where the Chiefs players were eating, and the food was great. We also would get all the water, Gatorade and soda we wanted because it was so hot we needed those drinks to stay hydrated. The internship could lead to better things in the future, and knowing this is great. If we do our job and do it right, maybe a job could be in our future, a job that could lead any of us to the NFL, or any other sports department possibly, and that is a great feeling too.