It's mid-June already and we have all been set back to the summer break mode. Long hot summer nights spend with friends without a care in the world. Our Instagram feeds are overflown with pictures of people soaking in sunlight in distant places and our list of Snapchat stories to watch are taken over by people laughing and hanging out with friends. Summer is supposed to be a time of bliss, the season we usually have the most fond memories of and look forward to every year. That's why I am not surprised when people gasp and are bewildered by the idea that I decided to take on an internship during the summer even though it is still early in my college career. They are totally thrown off guard, however, when I tell that that besides working my 40-hour-a-week internship, I also have a part-time job in a shoe store where I work during the weekends. Yes it is true, while others are tanning on the beach, I am working seven days a week this summer.

I do not regret a thing. That is the first thing you should know. I like being busy and I might take on a bit too much at times, but I'll always make it at the end. I have not once in my life regretted working too much. The only work I do regret is the work I didn't do, the work I slacked on by own laziness. When I was 14, I got my first job at a local grocery store. I decided to put all the money I made there aside to one day fulfill my distant dream of going to America. Years later as I graduated high school that dream was about to come true and I wouldn't have been able to pay for it if I hadn't worked all these years. Money was not the only thing I got out of my years there. Despite it being hard work and tedious at times for little pay, I learned a lot about what it's like to be responsible, to work and plan as efficiently as possible and, moreover, I made friends that I still talk to and hang out with a lot. I do not regret a day of my life in that store.

Due to visa requirements, it was hard for me to find a job in the U.S. I had always considered myself as someone who would always work and besides a small campus job, I didn't really have a job anymore. I decided to put all my energy and focus in my school work with high grades as a result. I do, however, wish I would have worked more. I just feel incomplete without. That's why I was beyond excited that I got accepted for the summer internship I applied for. I would be a working girl again and this time in my field of interest! When my friend told me that the shoe store she worked in was hiring and that if I was interested I should apply soon, I knew exactly what to do. I went to the store the next day and got hired on the spot. My happiness about going from no job to two jobs overshadowed any negative feelings I might have against the hours I'd be making.

I have only just started at the store and I feel like I already found my spot within the team. I also have an outlet again to put all the energy and will I have into a company and a purpose. My internship starts this week too and I can't help but smile while I think about it. Working has not only given me responsibility, money, friends and a purpose, it is also exactly what I need. Working suits me and it adds value to my life. I guess I just can't help but love being a working girl.