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 Just came back from my last weekend working down the Cape at the country club.  Well as in just, I mean last night, but this is my first chance back at a computer so there we go it works more than one way.  Real quick post because the sore throat and coughing that I was trying to ignore by believing it was not an actual sickness forming, has now caught up to me and I am gross and congested and I get winded walking like not even ten feet.

Alright so you saw how last post I had a little list of possible jobs that the one site matched me up with?   Well one of them was advertising, and I've always thought I could be really good at that.  I mean my junior year of high school, I won a state-wide poster contest to prevent teen drinking.  I wasn't trying to demolish underage drinking, just to show that sobriety can be better.  You know, in the way that Burger King can't attack McDonalds, they just have to show their food is better.  I mean honestly though, when you were in HS how annoying was it to see those ads with the car wrecks and hearing these sob stories about drunk driving and etc? I mean clearly yes it is an issue, and nothing that I am trying to make light of, but lets face it, when you are 17 years old, you are not going to be affected by those images.  How many video games alone feature car crashes? Yeah it doesn't quite hit our generation anymore.  

So my poster was a subtle way that alcohol can affect youth, while not lecturing, but at the same time showing it as something that hits close to home (saving money, and availability).  I wish sooo badly that I have a picture lying around of this poster, but I do not.  But it was made out of construction paper cut-outs, and feature a martini, a beer, a glass of champagne, and a glass of water.  The writing under each listed a price and it's name, so Martini: $9.00, Beer: $4.75, Champagne: $7.00.   Water: PRICELESS.  Then at the bottom with two overlapping circles, "Sobriety;It's Everywhere you Want to Be."

This being said, I decided to change my approach so that when club members asked me "What I plan on doing with [Double major in English and Modern Greek Language, with a minor in Arts]?"  I can have something a llittle more substantial.  So when the club president asked me yet again what I'll be doing come graduation, I told him I was thinking about going into advertising.  Bada bing bada boom, he told me to send my resume to one of the other club members, as he owns a very successful advertising firm.  And that's how you network folks.


Now all I have to do is go over to the career center and write a resume, something tells me the one I had to make in high school is a little outdated....

Well laydays and gents, time to get home, make some breakfast for dinner, and get some Nyquil and rest!

So today we had an event, "Why English Matters" for us crazy English majors who decide to take classes they love, even if it might not produce the best career searching results.  Strike that, career LANDING results.  Big difference there.  One of the speakers we had, was J.T. O'Donnell and she owns careerealism.com, a career advising website, so she gave us a quick little lesson.  I mean I do realize that I graduate in Dec/Jan, but I really have not been wanting to face it.  Well that was the first thing she said, is that it might be scary, but it's better to just face it and tackle it rather than wait for it to sneak up on you and freak you out (which no lie I think with only two months to go I am already hearing the stress trying to tip-toe up on me). One of her suggestions was to get a blog going, so you can have at least SOMETHING you've written on the internet.  So Laydays and Gents that's what this blog is for.

First steps since that panel which was over about an hour ago:
Go to careerealism.com and sign up good good I did that
Take some career personality tests, which I also did, well okay like two but they gave me a little bit of insight  so here are the results from one of them:
http://www.jtodonnell.com/assessment/resultspgs/Energizer2.html

and then from another one I took
http://career.missouri.edu/students/explore/thecareerinterestsgame.php

I tested as an AES personality which stands for Artistic, Enterprising, Social

my top best-fit suggested jobs (in no specific order) are: Actress, Advertising Art Director, Dancer, Furniture Designer, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Museum Curator, Music teacher, and Photographer

But fashion designer is not listed as an AES:(  Which doesn't mean I can't do it, it just means I need to add more technical skills to my forte in order to excel at it, versus a person who is more tool oriented.

But both really let me know what I already do know, that I definitely need to be in a creative field.  I mean I really think I might shrivel up and die if I work in a cubicle where I have to wear black pinstriped pant-suits everyday.  I want to work at a job where I can wear a great pair of heels, a tunic dress, and some leggings...just for example.

So alright, it is a small step, in addition to taking those skills assesment thingies, I have been poking around the careerealism website, and well I guess starting this blog is also a small step.  Who knows, maybe some totally awesome boss will be bored one day and surfing the internet and then they'll come across my blog and decide, "Well this girl is the bee's knees" or some other anatomically incorrect expression from the age of the whippersnappers, and they'll send me an e-mail hiring me on the spot with full benefits!  Well...maybe not after just one blog post, but I mean you saw Julie and Julia right folks? Or at least heard of it? Yeah that's what I thought! Good things coming my way hopefully.

And just so this isn't so dry all the time (it's my first post give me a break, I have to acquaint myself and you the audience with what will be going on here) I plan on posting photos of my fashion sketches, paintings, and  pencil/charcoal drawings.  That way instead of taking my word for it, people can actually witness all that I've got going on.

Time to study for a mid-term!! 

And to all those college grads or soon-2-bs Good Luck out there.