February 15, 2021

When your job is your valentine

Enthusiasm level: Intern vs mid-career professional

by Devanshi Vaid, Disha Acharya

2 min read

1. Waking up to an inbox full of unread mails

Intern:

Barney Stinson raising his thumbs enthusiastically-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

Mid-career professional:

Person looking up and sighing-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

2. Pouring yourself your favourite motivational drink

Intern:

Coffee being poured into a white mug-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

Mid-career professional:

Person pouring themselves a large glass of wine-valentine — GIF Credits: Tenor

3. Getting an outfit together for your Zoom conference

Intern:

A well-dressed person twirling-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

Mid-career professional:

A person sitting on a couch-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

4. Sitting through the Zoom conference

Intern:

Two people sitting in a car singing, one person looks at the other in dismay-valentine — GIF Credits: Decider

Mid-career professional:

Two tired people sitting in a car-valentine — GIF Credits: Decider

5. Getting the perfect LinkedIn connection

Intern (after connecting with the head of HR at their dream job) and,

Professional (after connecting with a foundation’s grant-making head):

A person down on their knee asking 'will you marry me'-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

6. Thinking back on their decision to work in social impact

Intern and mid-career professional, both:

Two people high-five each other-valentine — GIF Credits: GIPHY

Tags: Nonprofit Humour

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Devanshi Vaid

Devanshi is co-founder and director at IDR, where she oversees audience growth, dissemination, global partnerships, and talent.In six years since IDR's launch, she grew the organisation's digital audience 82X times to 10 million people monthly, making it the largest independent media platform in Asia.

Disha Acharya

Disha Acharya is a media and communications graduate, specialising in print journalism, from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. She is a freelance journalist and has written stories for The Times of India and The New Indian Express. Previously, she was the news editor of The Manipal Journal, an independent news organisation. Disha is currently interning at India Development Review, along with managing and hosting her podcast show 'What's Brewing'.

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