Here I am, yet again. This week has been one of both insight and career planning chaos. Plans have been put to a holt and confusion has been planted. All as a result of attending a couple of career talks on Tuesday!!
So, Tuesday came and I was looking forward to hearing about careers in Marketing and Advertising. As informative as they both were, they day ended with the realisation for me that I don’t think I actually want to go into any of those areas. Well, not the strategic side of it all anyhow. I left me quite troubled and my mind was full of questions. The main one being…what am I going to with my life?!
After a couple of days of pretty much solid thinking and “soul-searching” (by this I mean browsing the internet for hours at a time), I finally embarked upon what I really want to do (well kind of). Being a creative person and wanting to work in field that builds on this I came to the conclusion that I want to be a graphic designer (I think J). The one thing that I see as a downside to this decision is the starting salary isn’t amazing…but I keep telling myself that if I’m good at it I can make my millions J. The major implication is that my degree doesn’t cater for this choice, but it does cater for the industry I could end up working in which counts for something I guess.
My next step is to decide I’m going to get to the starting point. This involves developing a portfolio and gaining some kind of relevant qualifications, whether it is through short courses, a foundation year, distance learning courses, a diploma…the list goes on. At this point I decided to stop thinking about it for now, and to concentrate on this degree first, then focus on taking the necessary steps when I have less work to do and manage.
At uni, Bob was still ill so class was cancelled again. The LPD portfolio section was all about researching occupations, which tied in nicely with my thoughts of the week…my other modules are going alright. However, this month will probably the heaviest on the term, in terms of workload. With two presentations and two essays to be handed in towards the end of the month, as well as my on-going project (for which I need to carry on drafting up my methodology section), it’s not going to be a fun ride.
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| Taken by my very handy phone |
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| Taken by my very handy phone too :) |
November does however, bring the festive times of Halloween and Bonfire Night which called for a night in of horror films on Monday and night out to the fireworks display in Platt Fields Park last night. It was a good way to bring the week to an end and took my mind off careers choices and researching. Tonight involves me going to watch Britney Spears (I know she’s gone downhill these days but back in the day she was one to watch, I’m hoping she’ll be reliving some of her old songs…), hence why I’m blogging I up at such a time in the afternoon…I’m hoping she won’t be as bad as the reviews have been making out…
…Watch this space…and once again, Hakuna Matata (Yes, I did watch lion king again last night (on DVD this time though J)).
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