I know it’s been a while since my last post and I’m sure
none of you can get much sleep wondering how my job is going and whether or not
I’m liking it, so I’ve decided to catch you all up real quick! Here’s what I’ve
got so far.
Everything has been going really well! Work has been keeping
me extra busy, but it’s definitely a fun ride. I’ve been working about 40-50
hours a week in the office, with travel in between sometimes. I’ve been working
on a bunch of different things. Day-to-day, I’ve been working on:
Warrior Dash Social Media:
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.
University Relations:
talking to students about the internships we offer
Warrior Dash Maryland
Planning: calling and getting quotes on things like dirt, pea gravel, Duraflame
logs, porta potties, etc.
Great Urban Race Los
Angeles Planning: searching out venues for clue challenges in Los Angeles
Email Communications:
building all of the emails that go out to participants prior to and after each
event
New Brand Logistics:
working on planning for a new event… this one’s a secret
Coffee Talk/Ribbit
Reader: Putting together the daily/weekly newsletters that go out to
everyone at Red Frog
So any day could be a strange combination of all of those
different things, depending on deadlines and all that. Or, it could be
completely random and fun, like this past Wednesday when we went on the company
field trip. It was a complete surprise, we knew when the field trip was and
everything but only select planners knew exactly where we were going to go. As
it turns out, we went bowling, followed by a brewery and then we went back to
the office where a polka band was set up and played for the rest of the night.
Talk about fun. I can’t believe I work for such a cool company!
 |
| Just hangin' out in the swing room |
As for travel, I’ve been doing quite a bit of that over the
past month. February 19-20 I went with two other people to Ball State
University in Indiana to talk to students about Red Frog. We went to a career
fair there and also presented in front of a couple classes, just kind of
generating interest in the internship position. It’s so much fun (and really
easy) to talk about Red Frog because it’s such a unique company.
Next, I went to San Diego on February 28-March 3 for the
first-ever Urban Warrior Dash. It was such an awesome experience to not only be
in downtown San Diego for an obstacle course race, but also to be a part of Red
Frog history as this was the first time this had ever been done. Setting up was
long – two 12-hour days of some pretty physical labor. Actually, the second day
(Friday) I ran the packet pick up at a local running store. It was fun to see
everyone’s excitement to be running the race. When race day came, we woke up at
4:30am and started going. I was in charge of the beer tent. It was pretty easy
because we were serving cans, plus we weren’t selling any beer, just giving it
away to participants who turned in their chip timers. I had awesome volunteers
running everything and it couldn’t have gone smoother. That night we got to
drive around San Diego in little Go-Cars, which was fun. We hadn’t really
gotten to see much of San Diego prior to that since we were always working at
Petco Park where the festival area was, so it was a cool experience that I’m
glad we capitalized on. Also, the weather was perfect. I think I’m ready to go
back now…
 |
| Go-Cars! |
 |
| Second Day Working in San Diego |
 | |
| Behind the Wheel |
Currently, I’m in Michigan, but just for fun. My friend
Katie from UNT is visiting her family up here so I figured I would take a
little vacation (San Diego was awesome, but it was definitely work) and hang
out with her. I just got here yesterday (Thursday) on the Megabus, which was an
experience in itself. It’s so cheap! My tickets here and back were $14 a piece!
The 6-hour drive actually flew by, so I’ll definitely be taking more trips like
this in the future. Anyway, I leave tomorrow. It’ll actually be nice to just
rest at home, too…
…mainly because I’m back to traveling on Monday! I’ll be
driving the two hours it takes to get to the University of Illinois for their
Athletic Career Fair that night. I’m not staying overnight for this one, but
throwing all that driving into one day is going to be tough. I am going with
some pretty awesome coworkers though, so I’m not too worried about it.
On my schedule ahead are a Warrior Dash in Georgia (April
9-14) and then the Great Urban Race in Los Angeles (April 19-21). Last but not
least is Warrior Dash Maryland in mid-May. All this travel is definitely
exciting, as I haven’t gotten around much since I moved to Chicago. The Megabus
is an awesome, cheap resource though, so I’ll definitely be utilizing it more
in the future for some fun weekend trips.
I think that’s all I have, family! Everything is going
really well here and I’m having a great time and meeting a lot of fun people.
Moving to Chicago was such an awesome life-changing experience and working at
Red Frog has only made the city as a whole so much more interesting and fun. It
honestly feels like freshman year of college all over again, and I know I’ve
met people who I’ll be friends with for the rest of my life.
 | ||
| At a glow party we had. I was running it so I didn't take part in the face painting. |
Also, here's a video we made for a weekly newsletter that mimics the Oscars. Might not make much sense, but it was fun to make! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0qkPrQ3Ed0
Hope everyone is doing well! See you all soon!
