<p>Right now I am a high school student doing an internship at an environmental resource management lab. I really like going there and I have no intention of quitting until school starts, but I always feel so incompetent when I go there. They get a lot of interns there, but they are always college students with experience. The people there are really nice, but I seriously have no people skills. I am trying to be more talkative when I go there because I have had a lot of people tell me I am too shy and quiet, but I have no idea how to start a conversation or carry one on for that matter. They tell me different things to do there, it varies a lot, basically whatever they need help with and I learn along the way. So if I finish something, I have no idea what to do. I don't want to be annoying and go up to him every other minute saying "I'm done what should I do" because I don't want to interrupt them all the time, so sometimes I just kind of stand there waiting for them to notice I was done which I know is dumb too. It seems that I have hard time doing seemingly easy tasks, pretty much because I have no prior knowledge. There was this one time where he said to get a piece of paper out of the draw under the printer and I opened the drawer on the printer and got it out of there! And then found out later that wasn't what he meant, and I felt really dumb. I have found that, at least for me, there is no correlation between doing well in school and doing well in a real work place. I am not dumb outside of that place and I want them to know that! I know this post is random and vague, but does anyone have any general advice? Has this happened to anyone else?</p>
<p>your fine, working through high school and college is more about gaining experience and being more comfortable about what you do and being around people. If you believe you are capable of doing “more difficult” work, speak to your supervisor. No one starts out knowing everything. And the quickest way to learn something is by making mistakes</p>