Chasing a PlayStation Internship: Tyler Westhause Plays His Hand — Part II
Tyler Westhause hearing from a Sony Interactive Entertainment recruiter was a thrill, a dream, and a source of great anxiety. This mix of exciting news and daunting responsibility dominated his mind for months. In the end, it was worth it. But why…and how?
We all get spam, not the food, the messages and emails. It’s a pain. We filter them out the best we can, but occasionally one or two messages might catch our eye. When I saw my first email from a Sony PlayStation recruiter, I discounted it. I remember I was sitting in a Master’s Communications course at Illinois State University — half paying attention, half browsing Reddit. I got bored and started scrolling through my messages, and eye-balled the Sony email.
Then it clicked.
It was real.
What the hell is happening?
That’s what pops in your head for the first time. Not excitement, but bewilderment. Of all the people who applied, they want to talk to me. Me. A kid from the suburbs of Chicago who spent the last week binging the Witcher 3. A kid who doesn’t work in marketing. Me.
And that’s when the imposter syndrome crept in…
There is no magic pill you can take that’ll make you confident in yourself — that comes with time. It comes with patience, and strife, and struggle. It took a long time for me to feel like I had earned my opportunity at an internship.
When I got it? That’s a completely different story, which I’ll tell another time :)
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