The final two week of my internship have begun and the whole summer is starting to head towards a close.  I have learned a lot here at Gallagher and I have definitely received all the office experience that I was looking for going into summer.  After the internship is over I will take a little time to go camping and then start my road trip across the country from California to Connecticut for school.  Should be a long but fun journey with lots of stops in between to visit friends and visit their various schools. 

One last item of business to take care of before I head on my roadtrip is the Insurance League Softball Playoffs with the Gallgher team, so far we are 5 and 2 and looking to make a strong run in the playoffs.

-Brendan, San Francisco

Hello digital world. I’ve never blogged before but if I can remember what I’ve read in the past it’s basically the scrawling of one’s thoughts onto a digital journal. Here goes…

I took a look at the other posts on the site so far and I was struck with how many people are thoroughly enjoying their summer experience so far. I thought for a moment and realized that I too was not only satisfied with my experience thus far, but extremely happy with it as well. I don’t just wake up in the morning so that I can keep Roxana and Jura happy, I get up with a smile on my face because I get to go to a place of business where people are waiting to see me, and relying upon me. I have work that is important not only to my own development, but to the company as a whole. For example, I’m currently working on a presentation about Itasca, which is pretty much just a personal development project, but in the meantime a consultant just stopped by my desk with a project that was going to develop useful, relevant information for one of the biggest clients our GBS LA office has! Pretty cool for an intern position huh?

I find myself staying later than 4:30 not to please my boss or give the apprearance of a brown-nosing overacheiver, but rather because Gallagher has made me into an overacheiver, they have given me a responsibility and I intend to meet it.

Hopefully that was a decent first crack at a blog, perhaps a bit too much rambling…but I’ll sign out with this. If in the end we don’t get a job with Gallagher, our next positions have got a pretty high bar to match up against. Anyone agree?

-TJ