So, for the last two-ish months, I've been working at an (internal) internship in my company. Since we're enormous (we're talking over 16,000 employees here) they're basically an opportunity to be sent to another department on loan at your current pay rate, while your regular job is being held for you, so you can learn about a new section of the business, possibly work a high-profile project to put in your portfolio, and if they can use your internship to convince their VP to add headcount to their team, to get yourself a new position. In my case, this job is a level up from mine, so that new position would be a promotion that comes with an automatic 7% pay raise plus an increase to the base they calculate your profit-sharing bonus from every June.
The only issue I've been having is that I've gone from working on the marketing team, specifically with the writers and the graphic designers and the UX developers to working with the sales team. And not just the sales team, but the B2B sales team in the notoriously conservative financial industry. Needless to say, the atmosphere -- and the dress code -- is very different. Like, I am no longer sitting next to a lady who wears Docs and plaid dress pants to work sometimes. I'm sitting next to one who wears blazers to work almost every day and still keeps a jacket in her cube 'just in case' for the days she doesn't. She's not an executive. She writes RFP content. I've mostly been able to get away with it during the 'summer' weather (that lasted until, like, Friday) when things are a bit more casual. But in the words of the Starks 'winter is coming', and I am not the sort of person who owns pumps and power suits.
Well.... I just got almost $700 of winter clothes. For $285. And I'm almost as proud of that as I am of getting that internship, and am over here like: