A few weeks ago it was a little different. No 9-5 work schedule for me. It was the you are an investment banker and you will never sleep again schedule. I exchanged water for coffee and fell asleep in front of the other interns on the bus ride-embarrassing but unavoidable. It was the week of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, hundreds of plane manufacturers come to Paris to find buyers. The interns were in charge of delivering flyers and manning the Operations Center (aka a booth). Booths are not exciting because you never get to leave them. They are like little tiny jail cells from which you can see all the people around you having fun but you can’t join them. Kind of like time out when I was little. Delivering flyers is fun but tiring and the booths are hard to find. After two or three hours of trying to find booths you just want to go back to your own. Over three days that booth accumulated enough paper to give a green rights activist a heart attack. I even hid food under the podium so when I got stuck for long periods of time I didn’t get too grumpy. Ahh I have failed to mention when the Paris Air Show starts and ends-never. We had to be at the bus at 7:30am and the bus got back around 7:00pm. From the bus I took the metro home. Basically by the time I got home it was time to fall asleep and then I got to wake up and do it again.
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