Interns@AutoCom

Hi @ all, My name is Niko, I’m the new intern at AutoCom. I’m here for almost 4 weeks now and owe you my first blog post. First of all: I’m 24 years old, from Regensburg in Germany and I’m studying business administration. My major is marketing and before joining the AutoCom team I worked at a German radio station in Regensburg for more than 5 years.  I started working here on April 1 st . In the meantime I have arranged myself with the new job and colleagues – and we already had the first event with the AutoCom team. But – let me start from the beginning. The adventure began at the Frankfurt Airport at the end of March.  I’ve never been in an airplane for such a long time (almost 10 hours…). But fortunately those machines offer enough reasons for their passengers not to fall asleep. I’ve watched the whole season 8 of “The Big Bang Theory”, had several cups of coffee and nice chats with the flight attendants.   Finally: Detroit, Michigan.  ...

The last six days are over, my vacation begins. The last days were a further proof for it, time is flying by faster and faster. For my last day, Merle brought tasty classic Doughnuts to the office, which weren’t existing anymore shortly after lunch. Yummy :) Thanks again!! Famous Doughnuts I will definitely miss the AutoCom team, my work in the office and even the fact driving to Bloomfield through Woodward Ave every morning. It was a pleasure to meet you and to work with all of you together. Even on busy days, we had a great time and fun! Fortunately we didn’t have say good bye yet, because we will meet again for a final dinner in May, before I go back to Germany.   From right to left: Jack Ferry, Jack Harned, Denise Bell, Merle Lueckens and I - Owe you a picture with Larry ;) One of my personal goals was to improve my English skills in meetings, while writing e-mails, during conference calls or just in short chats. But I was also trying to catch ...