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If you were a person, I would be your underwear--reliable, comfortable, and always there to hide your parts when wearing white and soaking wet. But alas, you are a company and I'm not 100% cotton.
I was born into this world as a confused anthropologist. I absolutely love people and all things people, but I wasn't really sure what to do with it. Then I realized the action sports industry loves people as much as I do. So I studied people and skied, snowboarded, skateboarded, watched surfing until I realized I wanted to apply my studies to the later.
I admit to being mostly fresh out of college, but I think my experiences exceed those of anyone my age. When I was 14 I was already helping out with snowboard contests being put on by the Target Market in Minnesota. By 15 I was working at my local ski resort. By 16 I was the only female working at a skate shop in the Mall of America where Roxy became the staple of my wardrobe. By 20 I was president of the ski and snowboard club at my university, a ski and snowboard instructor at Mt. High, and intensively working to promote a brand new minor in digital media at Cal Poly. By 21 I was an outside sales rep for Mt. High, working events such as SkiDazzle and SnoJam and helping out with Buck Off Rail Jam. By 23 a friend and I took the initiative to found a ski and snowboard team at Cal Poly Pomona partnered with Cal Poly SLO which in its first year took 2nd place in men's snowboarding and sent 2 members to nationals. The last two winters were spent working in Mammoth going to events like the Roxy Chicken Jam wishing to be great enough to ride with Torah Bright or Kelly Clark and then realizing I may never be so great in sport, but I would certainly great at working in the industry which has become my life. So now that is what I do.
To whom this may concern:
It is my firm belief that everything I have done up until now has been in preparation for a position such as the one you have to offer. I spent many years questioning what it was that I really wanted to do in my career life. I seemed to have figured it out when I was 15, but for some reason kept that hidden from myself until recent. You see, at 15 I started my first job working a ski resort in my hometown--shortly after, working at a skate/snow board shop. Every job I have loved since has been in the action sports industry and has only ceased because of school work or moving.
In no way do I regret my decision to attend college for anthropology, it has given me an incredible advantage in understanding people, groups, sub-culture and counter-culture. My degree gave me the opportunity to study everything that interested me and more as well as offering a very strong emphasis on the digital media world. I took many classes pertaining to digital media as the anthropology department developed a strong relationship with the digital media arts program.
Not far into my college career I developed an aptitude for web design and development and began working as a student instructor teaching faculty, staff, and students how to use software such as dreamweaver, flash, and photoshop. Since, I have done a large amount of freelance working with a variety of people including work on Randy Sheckler's Racing website, Patty Segovia's All Girl Skate Jam project, and even most recently developing a website for Kaya Turski. However, with all this success comes the fact that I am missing 2 things, experience in a company environment and a marketing degree. Freelance is wonderful and I'm sure I will always continue it to some degree, but what I truly want is to have a career in the environment I have grown up in. Your company is the one stop shop in the action sports community; with my qualifications and grasp of people, media, and the action sports industry, I will willingly and gladly fulfill all expectations in my drive to launch my career.
Thank you for considering my application for internship, and I look forward to being interviewed at your earliest convenience.
