They also paid for our return trip - but several of us landed jobs and stayed. In September, they gave us free tickets to the MTV Music Awards. Organization skills were a must. I had to be flexible and willing to perform a lot of different tasks. My experience exposed me to every branch of the company.
Music publishing is a pretty complex industry.
I was a music major in college, and this gave me an opportunity to learn about the business in a way that no book or class could have ever taught me. The experience helped me clarify my long-term goal of being a musician. It's a glamorous field, but you have to keep your head on your shoulders. The toughest thing was finding a place to live in the City after the internship ended. In many ways, this internship gave me my career.