Here you can see the news posts that I made. For this, I used one of my best resume special skills, copy and paste. In creating this content, I copied and pasted like never before. It's a good thing they had such a tech savvy person on hand, as who else could ctrl-c and ctrl-v with such abundant proficiency. Another thing that I renovated was the stories page.
For a long time before I helped update this, this page just sat empty, desolate, and lonely. In doing this, I again used my tech skill of copy and paste, but also another proud skill of mine, crop. This picture didn't know what hit it when I went to work on it. In the end, I spent the majority of 4 hours just working on this website, updating little bits and pieces across it, all the while no clients whatsoever came to the office. Four hours of administrative work really reinforced how much I never want to work in IT. In all seriousness, this was a rather disheartening experience. I started off being really passionate about getting to help the community, especially since I'm a business major and this charity interacts heavily with the business world. But ending up doing the kind of work that would be delegated to an unpaid intern, I just felt wasted. I know that I have skills I can use to make a difference, but I was never going to be able to put those to use at Dress for Success.
I understand exactly where you are coming from; As soon as somebody knows that you know something about computers, suddenly everything that they don't know about computers becomes your problem. I must say, however, I was extremely impressed with the copying & pasting done in the work that you showcased in this post. I have never seen such skilled, quality ctrl-c'ing and ctrl-v'ing in my life. However, I would not be too disheartened by this. While your skills were clearly not used to their full potential in this setting, remember that a very important aspect of any organization, profit or non, is a solid website. 99% of the time, this is the first place people go to find out more about an organization after they first learn of its existence. By doing this, you are increasing the likely hood that people will come to Dress for Success. I can personally say that if I needed professional clothes, after seeing how you cropped that image, I would run to Dress for Success as fast as I could!
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