Revolutionize my career

So far I applied for internship twice, I had two internships. Using simple math, I like that ratio. 

It does not mean necessarily that I liked my internships. I mean, I liked them as experience, but now I know what I do not want to do in the future.

My first internship was at the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation. It is very small NGO dedicate to promote cultural understanding between people of the United States and Russia. It was extremely interesting, I met amazing people, I worked with the Russian Embassy, the Library of Congress,  world renowned artist like Wynton Marsalis and Valeriy Gergiev. 

The issue was that it was an extremely small NGO. There were three members of the team, including me. We did have several people helping outside of the office, but they helped based on issue. My assignments were research, phone calls, speechwriting, pitching and brainstorming. However, during any of my task, I had to remember that the organization is fully dependent on sponsors and donors and there is also an office to keep working through the creating process. I had to count sponsors' interest and to get approval of 20 different people who were not very involved in the process, but had lots of requests. The cycle locked within these people making my work not very productive. 

1776, my current internship was thematically not related to me. It is startup incubator that assist startups working in 4 high-regulated field like energy, health, education and "smart cities" (mixed of government administration, transportation, urban lifestyle). I had no idea about startups or any of these 4 themes. I spent and spend time every week to observe how they work. After several months I concluded for myself that I'm not interested in taking business. 

Through my short but colorful journey through internships, I am now aiming to work at public sector. Since I'm Russian citizen, it means working at public sector in Russia.