What You Should Do When You’re On the Beach – Besides Working On Your Tan
I get lots of questions on what you actually do as a summer intern: Modeling? Bottling? Working with clients? Making pitch books? Fetching coffee for everyone on your team?
In an ordinary year, yes.
But these days, you’re most likely to spend your time on the beach rather than doing any of the above.
I’m borrowing this term from the management consulting lexicon, but it applies equally well to bankers and anyone else in business: simply put, on the beach time is when you don’t have any real work, deals, or clients, and you’re watching YouTube all day out of boredom.
This is a big problem if you want to leverage your experience to move elsewhere – or if you just want to get a full-time offer in the first place.
So, what should you do when you’re on the beach?
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