In reading an assignment for my exciting Body Sense class I came upon an interesting quote which is as follows:
"People have more courage for others than for themselves, which is why Sher encourages individuals to form support groups as a way to help them keep moving toward the realization of a dream, even in the midst of doubts, hardships, and setback," (from 7 Kinds of Smart by Thomas Armstrong, PH.D. p.125).
This lead me to my idea for my thread this week. I know that graduation is approaching quickly for many of us, and this can undoubtedly lead to tons of stress. I know it's hard for me to be going to school full-time, working full-time at one job...while still keeping 5 other jobs (yes, I'm insane, I know), having my job search in full swing...and barely getting more than 4 hours of sleep a night. It's pretty rough.
My job search plan is to have all my resume packets, complete with copied clips, cover letters, and a link to a website that I'm in the process of making that has additional clips, complied and sent out by March 16, 2007. This sadly only gives potential jobs 2.5 months to call me back, interview me, and hopefully give me some job offers.
That might be enough time for them, but probably not enough time for me. The problem I'm going to have involves my dream to move to Cali. I absolutely hate Wisconsin. I've lived here my whole life (all 22 yrs so far) and I hate the cold. Milwaukee is definitely better than my little hometown up north (Clintonville, WI), but it isn't big enough for me. I want to move to Cali where it never gets colder than 50 and I can wear mini skirts all the time! Thing is...how the heck am I going to get job offers, travel to all these different cities (LA, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Chicago, and NYC) and pick a place to live, find an apartment, and still move before my lease ends on May 31st in Milwaukee?!
My dream job is to work for a well-known magazine or newspaper (preferably magazine) writing movie reviews and concert/cd reviews. My old dream was to be the fashion editor for Seventeen Magazine in New York, but since getting my job at JIVE Magazine this has changed. You should definitely check out http://www.jivemagazine.com/profile.php?id=1334 , which is my online portfolio with JIVE to see what I love doing.
(On another note...I do need people to help me pick out my best clips so I can send them out to potential employers...I have a clip portfolio and if anyone is willing to help me this week, it would take about an hour to read and pick out my best clips...if you don't have that much time, I would really appreciate it if you could just look at my online JIVE portfolio and pick out my best movie review!!! Thanks guys!)
So, in conclusion, I guess I'm just freakin' out. The past four years have been easy...school in the fall and spring (with some work)...then work full-time all summer. It was an easy routine for such a long time...and now that it's about to drastically change I'm scared.
So I'm wondering...what are everyone's dream jobs....what are you doing to try to reach them...and how are you dealing with all this stress because I need some pointers!!!
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My absolute dream job would be a sports writer, preferably sticking to a beat such as the Bucks or the Brewers, Packers, etc. Focus really on just one team and then do all my reporting from there. What am I doing right now to achieve that goal? hmmm, really nothing, just finishing up school and working as a bread delivery guy! which if you've never done it sounds ridiculous, but pays exceptionally well for working about 30 hours a week, salaried. But other than that, I'm really just sick and tired of school and can't wait for my sixth year of full time school, full time work to be over with so I can sit around and do nothing for a year (besides work) and then focus on getting a real job, if I can ever break my undying love for bread products. haha.
So Ben....do you pick up yesterday's bread too? And if so... do you have lots of free bread to share? Thanks in advance!
Anyway, I can't shake this feeling that my dream 'job' would be to live in a fantastically beautiful rural place where I can grow my own food, be self sufficient, and live in close relation to the land. As I've lived in cities my whole life, the closest I've been to this is having a garden in the summer so I tend to psych myself out..."what if I get out there and don't like it?" But again, I can't shake the idea. To work toward this dream, I've thought about learning carpentry as a skill that I could use to make enough money to buy land and pay property taxes. However, for the next two years, I'll be in grad school paying off my loans as a TA. I'm not worried though...I feel like I have time, kind of enjoy Wisconsin actually, and know that in time I will be drawn to where I need to be. In the last sixteen years of formal education, my mind has done a lot of learning. Now it is time for my spirit to catch up and I guess you could call this my career in self-actualization.
My dream job would be writing for Rolling Stone. I even went as far as signing up for a MTV reality show last year that was supposed to be a contest to try and win a year on their staff. I know, I stooped to the lowest level of Hell that I possibly could. Writing about anything for them, especially world or national events would be splendiferous!
Right. Well, good advice would be this: First off, I would suggest getting off the Cali kick. I know it's warm (I hate the cold and this Godforsaken state as well), but trust me, things are no good out there. As a stroker who is graduating two years after the rest of his friends, they all acted on the Cali impulse we all had. Some made it out there, but it is ass expensive to live out there and the jobs pay the same as they do here, so there is a constant revolving door of debt!! Secondly, it sounds like you're doing everything right to land a job. As a full-time journalist who is taking only one class this semester to graduate, I know the experience you have helps, but the grim reality is that almost everyone (like myself), has to start at some okie publication that pays horribly (but it's only three years at most, so don't fret). Just remeber the key to overcoming the stress is making yourself just not care anymore and riding the sled of stress all the way down the hill. REMEBER: it's only two more months of the Hell that is the Spring semester!
Oh, man this is easy. My dream job would definitely be landing an anchoring/reporting job for CNN or ESPN. I know its a long shot but hey, it's a dream. I am really looking forward to starting out my career next fall but just like you Michelle, I have no idea where I'll end up or what is going to happen. VERY scary. But I know I'll start out in like Rhinelander or like backwoods Georgia or something before anyone would even accept an application at CNN.
I'm in the same boat, with the exception of I haven't started freaking out too much yet. I know I want to do all these wonderful things with my life, but for some reason I'm in no hurry to do them. My ultimate dream job is to work for the Chicago Tribune or any other big magazine or newspaper and do the movie reviews. It combines my passion of movies with my career goal of writing. I have very little actual writing experience though, and knowing this, I've kind of accepted the fact that that career is going to take a long time before I actually achieve it. Ultimately, I just want to graduate school, get a nice 9-5 job with little stress, and take one or two graduate classes at a time. Overall I want to enjoy my life not watch it fly by. I don't make a lot of money now, but I don't live by the penny pinching ways I should. If I see a shirt I like in the mall, I buy it, if I don't feel like cooking and want a nice big juicy steak, I get one. Life is too short to stress about everything, not to say I don't have stress, everyone does, but when things get tough, I always think "it could be worse."
My priorities are as such: friends/family, school, (distant thrid) job. So if I stress about school or my job, I usually concentrate on the other things in my life that are good. Who says you have to rush through life, you may only get one chance at it, and I want to make that one chance count for something.
Yes, I think all of us can relate. I have had four internships throughout my college career and until this last one, I wasn't completely certain as to my future career aspirations. But my dream job is to stick with copywriting and become a senior copywriter or work for a magazine (which are unrelated). Most likely, I will stick with copy. As for my stress reliever...I run, work out and eat a ton. I also enjoy alcohol and cigarettes as a stress reliever...which doesn't mix with the first. But seriously, I don't know what I would do if I couldn't run. I have done a few marathons and it is like therapy. Since I'm in my 20s and in that selfish stage...I need 'me time.' Running allows me to gather my thoughts and I seriously plan things out. One word: Clarity! But I am looking forward to graduation and all its possibilities. Best of luck! It sounds like with all your hard work thus far...you are off to a great start.
my dream job would be a co-host on mythbusters. i mean that job would rock. they do sweet stuff there... like the time they found out that water is bulletproof, or the time they tested to see if a pirate could actually slide down the main sail by sticking a knife in it.. yea that was awesome...
i have some good ideas that they could test also... for example if you travel at the speed of light and turn on you blinker what would happen? or similarly if you travel the speed of sound and turn on your favorite village people song what would happen.. or if a helicopter took off and hoverd in one place for 12 hours and landed would the be half way across the world? or how close does a fly get to the cieling before it turns over to land?
see im ready for my dream job...
My dream job would be a news correspondent on the daily show. I want to do some kind of anchor work but I would be much better suited for work in the comedy vein. I have no idea how I could even try to get into a job like that though.
I am also getting pretty worried about graduating. I haven't had any internships yet and I am not prepared for the real world at all. I am about 3 weeks away from completely freaking out.
Back in high school I used to work at both a restaurant and a movie theater. Sometimes, on busy weekends, I'd pretty much go from the restaurant right to the theater, then home to sleep, and be up first thing in the morning to be back at the restaurant. My point is, that once, on a weekend like that, I had a dream about making a popcorn omelet. Like, I poured the seeds inside the eggs, and when I folded the eggs over the heat made the corn pop inside the omelet.
That's pretty much my favorite dream about jobs.
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