Alrighty. I’m serious this time about sincerely making an effort to keep up this blog. This is final! This is how it’s going to go down. I’m going to write a daily entry about my progress getting a real job within the advertising industry. So far, I’ve applied to about 75-100 jobs within the last three weeks of moving here to Redmond, Washington and gotten responses from scams like Sound Marketing Group and Direct Marketing Solutions. These are more like door-to-door type “advertising” companies. I would end up selling phone book ads or cooking utensils or something. That’s not really my idea of something I would want to do for the rest of my life.
I did however get an interview with Macy’s Beauty Department tomorrow. I would consider myself pretty good at applying makeup on myself and others so that should be fun if I get that position. Right now, I just care about getting a part-time job or even full-time job where I can have some form of income come in and still look for jobs when I’m not at work. That’s all I want right now. I’ll keep applying for jobs everyday and sending my resume into the abyss of the Internet hoping it finds a prospective employer that doesn’t want me to sell kitchenware. My ideal job would be to work at a large advertising agency in the creative department. Ever since I saw the movie, “What Women Want” I wanted to get in the advertising industry. But little did I know that unless you volunteer and intern like a pyscho while you are still a student, you won’t get squat when it comes to job offers after you graduate unless you know someone directly at a company you want to work for. This is the problem.
In order for me to be guaranteed an advertising job, I would have had to start interning/volunteering while I was a freshman in college. But, no. They don’t tell you these things. Professors might mention that you should do an internship ocassionally, but they won’t tell you how or tell you how to build a “portfolio” and have something to show employers after you graduate. It’s not enough that you worked your butt off just to get your degree. You have to have “experience.” Well, I’m the person that graduated from college, is actively seeking a job everyday and is trying to get “experience.” How can I get “experience” and you won’t hire me? I’m not trying to sound negative, even though I sound like I am. I just want to use my degree.
I don’t want to be one of those people who got a degree in something, found out they hated it or couldn’t find a job in their degree and works somewhere that has nothing to do with their $30,000 piece of construction paper that says, “Congratulations on getting this piece of paper. Now go get a job and pay us back.” I actually hate blogging. And I don’t even know if journalists still blog these days or how important they are to employers when they see that you have one. While you are in college, there needs to be some sort of course that teaches you how to prepare for post-graduation life. A course that tells you what you need to have under your belt when you leave college. But, no. There’s only a Career Center available that you may or may not have time to walk into.
It’s been three weeks since I’ve been here, and I’m just now getting interviews for part-time jobs. I’m not going to cop out and say that it’s the “economy” and that there aren’t any jobs. Look, somebody is making money. People are still making money so that’s not an excuse as to why someone can’t find a job. I just feel so unprepared and wish that the stuff I’m finding out now was told to me as a freshman in college and not after I graduated. But I have to deal with the situation I’m in right now. All I can do is look up. All I can do is keep doing what I’m doing until something good comes along.
