career

the speaker invited in for today's advertising class gave me some assurance, inspiration of sort. speaker (young, & in Prof's words, looks like lucy liu) is a planner at Ogilvy (advertising adgency) who stuck to her words about giving an honest insight into the advertising industry. how things can seem rather fluffy & nice in the advertising world, but there may be laspes in reality when working schedule can be crazy & not being able to churn out a campaign in a straightforward process flow but having to redo again and again due to the inability to communicate within the organization itself. things she said which left some room for pondering

(1) The most important brief you would ever write

deciding on what you want to do and where to go is the similar to a client brief which states out what client expects and how you should go about it. and that's a brief we have to write at one point or other: to decide what to do from then go. which directions & where

(2) form and importance.

because some people we know are graduating this term, we hear alot about job offers. starting pay of mid $3k to $9k and what?, $15k? and we start to wonder when or whether we will be able to earn this kind of money. note that above instances are in the banking industry, something i cant do and thus dont even have the chance to earn. looking at the form that these high paying industries portray, we get demoralized and all. and forget whats important. she left the legal business to go into advertising, and the reward (for the sometimes crazy schedule and low pay) was that her work and life is one. she reads and researches on things that interests her. she enjoys going to work and not dread it. its not very often you get that, its just a matter if you can ever find that kind of job.

i believe that Chance play an important part here. to direct you to the place you will be happy in, because some people never know. of SO many jobs in the world, how do you know whats right? and you wont know till you are in it. if you are lucky you get into a job and then realize you like it. else, its just constant job hopping.

Chance & Luck, I guess I could see it as being Serendipity. Having God put you in the right place at the right time. I sure want to be happy going to work!

had a short meetup with yunxi cos i told her that's a bazaar at smu & we both happen to like such stuff. her shopping style hasnt change a single bit. haha. tonight, im going to debby's house for steamboat =D