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My first day at work was absolutely amazing. I am a distribution supervisor that manages seven different temporary workers. I do all of that as an intern at Elgin Industries. Now that is what I call an unique internship since I am technically a manager and I do no “labor”. It definitely is a learning experience.

The two hardest things about this job are the long hours (I have to work about 10.5 hours) and the ability to recognize work that needs to be completed. Although there is plenty of work that needs to be done, it is hard to find all the necessary components in one spot so that the workers can get it done. To give you an idea of how much work is there, if incoming shipments stopped, the company has enough work for about three business weeks. That is basically 15 days worth of work just sitting there. Ideally, the company would want only one weeks’ worth of work, but they are so backordered and growing rapidly that there are just not enough hours and workers to get everything done.

Hopefully my manager is happy with the performance of my workers. Just last night, they processed close to 32,000 units, amongst six of them. I was missing one worker, the forklift driver, because he/she had failed their drug test. Without a fork-lift driver, getting components off the top shelves of the bulkracks is extremely tough. It’s a great experience and I’m finally making some cash. Definitely a great time to start saving!

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