Introduction
Rocket Venues is a non-profit theatre venue of the arts located in Scotland within the United Kingdom, where I interned for 5 weeks. For the month of August every year, they are open for business as part of the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, the largest festival of the arts in the world. Here I was Box Office Manager for the venue, where I managed three other individuals. My goal was to run the Box Office more efficiently than in previous years. My objectives in obtaining this goal were to devise a better ticket system and organizing the box office so tasks were finished in a more timely manner. I also hoped to learn to live and work in a foreign country, while using the management skills I learned in the United States. I was given many duties and responsibilities, where I encountered challenges, yet devised solutions to these challenges. Throughout my internship with Rocket Venues, I gained valuable business management skills.
The opportunity I had at Rocket Venues is one I will never forget. I met many new people through my various relationships with my supervisors and co-workers, who I plan to keep in touch with in the future. I found while on the job there were theories, concepts, and principles I found useful throughout my internship that I had learned from my previous classes at California State University San Bernardino. I learned lessons from this practical experience that would have been difficult to learn merely from a classroom. At Rocket Venues, I had the opportunity to network with management and learn about how a theatre venue is run. I had positive and negative experiences during my internship, however, it was an overall positive experience that I will look back on ...