Week 5

As a group, we narrowed our search down significantly last Monday. The three interns and Mark sat down and we each went through our entire lists. We separated them into four categories; "definitely," "maybe," "look more into," and "no." It was interesting to see which business made it into which category. The bigger companies like banks etc. that usually make similar lists often ended up on our "maybe" or "no" list because most of them are making massive layoffs. A place of business inwhich one's job isn't secure certainly isn't a good place to work.
From there, we split up the lists. Each category that we were planning on persuing (definitely, maybe, and look more into) had about 15 business total, so we each took 5 per category. I spent the rest of the week researching my assigned five businesses in the "look more into" category which included BRAC, Maintenance/Blue Collar Jobs, Dover Air Force Base, Autotote, and Work From Home. As it turns out, it's difficult to find much useful information for any of these, no matter how many newspaper articles or websites I look at involving them. I plan on continuing to try, however. The best thing about working here is that I can work on my own pace, generally. We have a lot of time to get what we need done, which assures that when our piece finally comes out it will be the best it can possibly be.
After I'm done with the "look more into" category" I'll probably begin calling the business listed in the maybe and definitely category to get more info on them than what I already have (which is quite a bit). That will probably be my task next week.