{"id":227,"date":"2014-07-15T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=227"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:35:41","slug":"shank-16-chicago-finance-sink-or-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2014\/07\/15\/shank-16-chicago-finance-sink-or-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Shank ’16 Chicago Finance: Sink or Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shank ’16 puts Wabash time management skills to use as he works remotely from Chicago Starbucks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ben Shank ’16 –\u00a0<\/em>I am very thankful for the opportunity provided to me by Wabash\u2019s Small Business Internship Fund.\u00a0 It has allowed to me work a new product launch on a financial software project at a Chicago-based company, under the supervision of a Wabash alumnus. \u00a0He has gained a wealth of knowledge about the business world since graduating from Wabash with an economics major.\u00a0 He has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and received an MBA at the University of Chicago.\u00a0 This is all very relevant to my future pursuits as I am currently a rising junior economics major hoping to work in the financial field.\u00a0 I also hope to one day get an MBA at a top school like UChicago.<\/p>\n

I have been able to use skills I picked up at my previous internships at AMI Investment Management (also founded by a Wabash grad) in terms of competitor research.\u00a0 While I was primarily researching stocks at AMI with the intent to purchase them, now I am researching companies from a competition standpoint. The internship has helped me think about \u201cmarketing\u201d in a whole new way.\u00a0 Before, I had associated marketing with artistic logos and creative jingles, none of which are really my forte.\u00a0 However, I now see marketing as gaining an understanding of your current surroundings and peers and then identifying the need.\u00a0 This will serve as valuable insight as I pursue a further career in business and finance.<\/p>\n

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This is a picture I took of Lake Michigan while walking on Lake Shore Drive during my internship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another interesting aspect of the internship has been the exploration of personality types and the way these impact consumer behavior.\u00a0 One of the first things I did upon starting the internship was to take a Myers-Briggs personality test.\u00a0 The (free and online) test asks you to answer about 80 questions, basically about how you operate.\u00a0 I found that I am an ENTJ type; look it up – it\u2019s fun to see how well your type describes you.\u00a0\u00a0 The goal is to not only identify what work habits work best for yourself, but also to attempt to identify how each \u201ctype\u201d of consumer will respond to different products and features.<\/p>\n

One of the great features of this internship is that it allows me to live in Chicago.\u00a0 While I work remotely, typically from a coffee shop or my apartment, I do get to meet with my boss a couple times a week to touch base.\u00a0 This internship forces one to develop time management skills since there are no set hours.\u00a0 Luckily, Wabash is structured to the point that you either sink or swim based on time management skills or the lack thereof.\u00a0 I highly recommend guys interested in a career in business or entrepreneurship to look into interning here through the Small Business Internship Fund in the future!<\/p>\n

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