{"id":1831,"date":"2019-08-02T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2019-11-05T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T20:39:45","slug":"garland-20-the-obvious-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2019\/08\/02\/garland-20-the-obvious-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Garland ’20 The Obvious Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colten Garland ’20 — <\/em>This summer,\u00a0I\u00a0had\u00a0the opportunity to work with Joe Johnson \u201911 and his company Obvious Shirts. Based in Chicago, it is a small t-shirt business\u00a0that makes witty Chicago Cubs-themed t-shirts.\u00a0I\u2019m very thankful to the CIBE and the Small Business Internship Fund for allowing me to spend my summer here in Chicago working with Joe and gaining this valuable experience. Through my daily responsibilities and discussions with Joe,\u00a0I\u2019ve gained much more knowledge\u00a0about\u00a0what it takes to run a small business\u00a0successfully.<\/p>\n

The majority of\u00a0my\u00a0responsibilities\u00a0are centered around operating the online store. The company is growing\u00a0quickly,\u00a0and we have\u00a0pretty steady\u00a0traffic on the site every day, so I\u2019m responsible for keeping track of our orders, inventory, and other online-related issues,\u00a0including\u00a0making sure any problems are dealt with. I\u2019ve also been able to sit in on meetings with owners of nearby retail stores that sell our shirts as well, and other businesses in the area that interact with Obvious Shirts regularly. During these meetings,\u00a0we negotiate new orders, discuss where we want the partnership to go in the future, and other\u00a0similar\u00a0important business matters. These meetings are nice for me to sit in on because I can gain first-hand experience of the\u00a0deal-making process\u00a0and I\u00a0get to\u00a0see many of the moving parts that go\u00a0on behind the scenes in\u00a0small business operations.<\/p>\n

I came to the company at an exciting time. Obvious Shirts is in the process of expanding our reach and our audience. Rather than strictly focusing on Chicago sports, as of late June,\u00a0we have shirts in several MLB stadiums,\u00a0and that number is growing. We have been in contact with other major sports teams about potentially\u00a0selling\u00a0shirts in more team stores. It\u2019s been exciting for me to witness the growth of the company and help move it forward in the process. Once again, thank you to the CIBE and the Small Business Internship Fund for affording me this opportunity with Obvious Shirts. It\u2019s been an extremely valuable experience,\u00a0and I\u2019m very thankful for the opportunity Joe, the CIBE, and the SBIF has provided me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colten Garland ’20 — This summer,\u00a0I\u00a0had\u00a0the opportunity to work with Joe Johnson \u201911 and his company Obvious Shirts. Based in Chicago, it is a small t-shirt business\u00a0that makes witty Chicago Cubs-themed t-shirts.\u00a0I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-summer-internships","category-small-business-internship-fund-sbif"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}