Off the wagon
I will admit that I have been an awful ‘blogger’ lately. Like so many of us do, I started out keen and really excited about the prospect of voicing my views all over the web. Well as you can see, distractions got the best of me. Nonetheless I am going to try and make a committed effort to finish out the semester (two weeks!) as a keen and eager blogger.Two weeks and a day from now I will have completed the in class portion of my postgraduate degree. I will have completed 15 years of schooling in 23 years. After completing high school and a four year university degree I was as lost as I was going to my first day of grade one. The pigtails were gone (thank goodness) but the same nervous feelings were present. After beginning and now almost completing my program at Centennial I am feeling something new. Wonder, excitement and curiosity as to what the ‘real’ world of PR is like. Did Sex and the City have it right with Samantha Jones and her wild ways? Let’s hope not, but nonetheless I have to admit that, while I academically feel prepared to begin working in PR, I have no idea what it will be like. This both excites and terrifies me to no end! Is the 9-5, corporate lifestyle for me? I will soon find out as I plan on beginning my PR career by jumping in with both feet and getting my hands dirty. From my internship (yet to be solidified) I am very keen to do anything and everything related to PR. I truly believe the best way to learn is by doing. And learning is how I plan to spend my last two weeks in class. I need to suck up all the knowledge I can. Soon enough it will just me and my CP style books. Wish me luck! Cheers,Aly
lscheniman replied:
Aly,
I completely understand your wonder, excitement and curosity, because I feel it too! It’s a little shocking to finally realize that we’re going to be done school forever. The learning process will never stop, but sitting in class, taking notes, doing homework and submitting assignments will be ending in less than two weeks. Yikes! I never could visualize myself in the working world, but we’re about to be thrown into it come the beginning of April.
Hold onto those CP books of yours, it’s going to be a wild ride.
March 18, 2008 at 3:15 pm. Permalink.
Wilson replied:
You’re so right Aly, the only way to learn anything is by doing it, and “yes” getting your hands dirty. An all American saying: “A big shot is a little shot who keeps shooting”.
You note that you’re about to complete the in class portion of your postgraduate degree and that you don’t really know what the “real world of PR” will be like. Well, keep in mind that while we have no way to make all things happen the way we like it, we do have the ability to make all things happen the way we would like them to happen. And I think the “girls” in Sex and the City knew this and tried to live their lives accordingly. Sex is just another word for “freedom”.
You have no idea what it will be like out there in the “real world”, but when we navegate in the dark it’s quite natural to feel excited and terrified at the same time. I have known you for 23 years and I sense you have lots of courage and determination. Go for it Aly the future belongs to you. I wish you all the luck in the world. But keep in mind a wise comment of Stephen Leacok a great Canadian humorist: “I find that the harder I work the more luck I have”.
March 18, 2008 at 4:43 pm. Permalink.