Week 5

July 8th - Monday

7:00am - 3:45pm

Today was a busy day for me as I was preparing for a meeting the majority of the morning and attending meetings all afternoon. I have taken a lead role in the social media group and our group has gone from 10 members down to 3 as everyone else begins to find their niche. My first meeting was from 12-2 with the literary team and copywriters. We had completed most of the writing templates and samples for dPOP! and were meeting with Andrew (Team Leader) to get his final say, thoughts and eventually approval. We sat outside in Cadillac Square and listened to a band play as we worked. It was relaxing and very productive except for the fact that it was 95 degrees and I was wearing full-length black pants. After that meeting, I had another one at 2:30 to discuss social media with some other team leads and get their feedback on what we are planning to do with social media moving forward. 

Cadillac Square Food Market.

July 9th - Tuesday

7:00am - 2:15pm

This morning Terence, a coworker on my social media team, and I decided to take advantage of our WorkSpots. We spent the morning working remotely from a coffee shop across the street from our building. This coffee shop, Roasting Plant, has coffee beans from all over the world and had the best scent of coffee while we were working. We made some changes to our social media plan and continued to move forward with some content. For lunch, I had El' Guapo tacos, which is a food truck located near Campus Martius. I love trying new, local foods.. especially food trucks!  I left work early because I had tickets to the Dave Matthews Band concert in the evening. It was a great night, but I did not return home until almost 1:30am which is sure to put a damper on the rest of my week, at least as far as energy is concerned. 

El Guapo! 

Dave Matthews Band Concert!

July 10th - Wednesday

7:00am - 6:00pm

Today was supposed to be a 15-16 hour day for me. Thank goodness, that changed around 3pm. We had an all-team meeting (Hundreds of people, as FOCUS contains several sub-teams and they were all there) at 7am. I was called out in this meeting to discuss the social media usage and content plan. In the meeting we discussed the future of dPOP! and when we officially plan to release it (press releases and such.) I also learned that for the first two months of watching our spending we have come out marginally in the green... which is unreal for start-up companies. We were over 100,000 in profit last month alone. That made me feel proud for our little company that is going to do big things. Our leader also discussed future employment with us and said to remain in contact with the company after our internships because there is tons of full time employment available. Maybe next summer I will return to Quicken Loans? In the afternoon I went around to many of the Quicken Loans buildings and took internal photos of furniture, wall decoration, and other things that the imagitivity team has worked on in the building. At 3pm we received an email telling the imagitivity team that we do not need to stay as late (we were staying for a move, but they had enough help without us.) I can honestly say today I felt pure exhaustion. By the time I was driving home, I could barely keep my eyes open. I went home and slept a few hours before waking up to work on this blog :)

Some indoor shots of Quicken Loans spaces.

July 11th - Thursday 

7:00am - 12:30pm

This morning was finally a beautiful drive in. I love seeing this city early in the morning and seeing the sunrise over everything and everyone waking up. So many people have so much hatred or disgust towards Detroit, but I truly believe it will rise again and prosper. It has so much history and so much potential, there is no way it won't be booming again. I came in early and got right to work with some photography for Pinterest and other social media outlets. Megan (co-worker) and I spent about an hour taking outdoor shots of the buildings Quicken Loans has stake in.  When we returned we began sorting and organizing them for the website, Pinterest and our own portfolios. This position has really allowed me to explore all of the different jobs I am interested in from social media, to writing to photography. I have felt a lot of growth in myself and my knowledge on these topics and cannot wait to continue learning more. I had to leave a little while early today to go meet some furniture deliverers at the new house. Moving and working full-time at the same time is exhausting. 

Some outdoor shots of the Qube and Compuware.

July 12th - Friday

7:00am - 4:00pm

Today was a rough day for me at work. I would actually say this is the first time I can truly say I had a bad day when it comes to my job. I am facing some struggles as far as social media is concerned. Within our team no one has ever been officially deemed the team lead, however I felt as if that was more or less me because I was the one planing the meetings, doing the final look-over, postings, and analytics. Most other team members were just putting together the content. However, because it was not official, I have been struggling with how much authority I can have over projects and where to draw the line when asking team members to do things without sounding bossy. A team member brought it to my attention that the rest of team was not being asked to do enough. I called a meeting and tried my best to resolve the problem and everyone left happy, however I was unhappy with the result. I didn't feel like it was completely taken care of, and I think it will come up again. It was a good challenge for me to see how far I can be pushed before I break. I pushed myself through several struggling tasks all afternoon and ended up leaving work in a terrible mood. Traffic was bad on the way home, of course, but when I finally made it home I put all of that on the back burner to try to enjoy the weekend.


Total hours worked: 45.25

I also worked 3 hours from home over the weekend.