{"id":1201,"date":"2017-07-20T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:50:57","slug":"bernhardt-19-wears-the-many-hats-of-a-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2017\/07\/20\/bernhardt-19-wears-the-many-hats-of-a-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"BERNHARDT ’19 WEARS THE MANY HATS OF A SMALL BUSINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Bernhardt ’19\u00a0Archon Tech Strategies –\u00a0<\/em>I remember the description of my internship posting on WabashWorkswhich discussed how the CEO wore a lot of hats and performed many tasks within a company. \u00a0After reading it, I wondered what being a CEO to a company actually entails. \u00a0For a small business like Archon Tech Strategies (6 employees including my fellow intern Steven Stark and me), I was truly astonished with how much Tony Unfried \u201803 takes on. \u00a0Owning multiple businesses while being involved in several others is a ton of work. \u00a0I have just finished my sixth week here at Archon Tech Strategies and the experience has been different than what I had expected it to be.<\/p>\n

Going into my internship I expected to work with the technological and business aspects of the company. \u00a0However, that is but a small fraction of what I have been doing until now. \u00a0Being able to intern for and witness a small business\u2019s operation has shown me the variety of work that comes with any given day. \u00a0From cr\"\"<\/a>eating electronic forms to starting a marketing campaign or updating the company\u2019s website to working in sales, being an intern for Tony and Archon Tech has been a well-rounded learning experience. \u00a0I feel as if I have worn a hat for every aspect of a small business, including specialized hats for setting up security cameras and painting a trailer.<\/p>\n

The environment during my internship has been very Wabash-esque, which makes sense because four out of the six of us \u2013 bar Katie and Angela \u2013 are Wabash men. \u00a0The feeling doesn\u2019t stem from just attending Wabash. I believe Wabash has instilled in us a way of life, one where we strive to learn and take on as much as we can.\u00a0 Watching Tony and Brian Wittman \u201916 apply the lessons learned during their time at Wabash in the \u201creal world\u201d gave me a sense of how I can do the same. They strive to better themselves each day and are constantly learning new things, and that is what I did my best to do this summer.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t just improve on one skill over these past couple of weeks. \u00a0I learned new skills that I had zero experience in and improved on multiple other ones.<\/p>\n

Interning at a small company such as Archon Tech makes you feel that the work you do is important not just to you, but also to the company.\u00a0 It has been great meeting new people and learning all about how a small business operates. \u00a0It goes without saying, but I want to thank the Lily Endowment Fund and Wabash College for providing me with the opportunity to grow my professional career.<\/p>\n

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