To get hands on experience from an entrepreneur. Want to observe how the businessman operates, manage time, lead people, and deal with daily demands of personal and professional life. By shadowing an individual entrepreneur and spending full day for 6 months can give me access to experiences, contacts and lessons I cannot learn from any other way.
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After completing traditional education, most of my friends preferred to have internship on their profile to get some experience. Big challenge with internship is that it will teach you a specific part of function in a specific department of a specific organization and also cannot give you access to complete thinking behind the process.
I choose my college teacher Mr. Shahid Jahangir as my master and get permission to shadow him for 6 months. Big reason to pick him as my master is that he was a wonderful person and dedicated entrepreneur. At that time, he was in automobile business, consulting students and also teaching. I shadow him for 6 months and learn diverse array of business skills from him. Then, I match those skills with insights I acquired during my Masters in Commerce degree to figure out the gaps. I tried to be of a person of value for him and help him in different tasks.
- Build a lifelong connection with that teacher. I am still in touch with him and still learning from him.
- He helped me a lot in dealing with real life questions.
- He helped me in polishing my ideas and give me access to real life references.
- He introduced me to other professionals and many valuable opportunities of my career.
- He give my a roadmap on how to deal with the question of balancing the personal and professional life demands.
I will try to bring more value to my master.
I will take notes more rigorosly.
I will connect with people more actively.
I will try to apply lessons to my craft more seriously.
- Apprenticeship is a far more better way to get going in practical life than internship.
- Apprenticeship give you more focused opportunities than doing internship.
- It is better to bring more value for a single person than being just a cog in a monster organizational machine.
- It is better to build a one solid contact in 6 months than earning just one piece of paper as a letter of experience.
- Apprenticeship bring diverse range of skills, insights and opportunities than any other way to gain experience.
- It gives you a better look at the behind the scenes part of a business i.e. how an entrepreneur takes a decision, when he or she gets confuse, how they deal with daily stress etc.