Tidbits and Future Uncertainties

I know it's been longer than normal since my last post, apologies.  I've been working on my normal receptionist duties (mailing things, answering phones, filing) which I don't think you would find thrilling to read about.  And I've gone through another revision of my ads, however, I'll wait to tell you how they are going until after I get some feedback from the art director.  I think they're coming along really nicely, but getting an objective opinion is the real test.

I do have a funny story about trying to FedEx something.  You would think it would not be that hard for a college grad with more than a modicum of intelligence, but since everyone who usually ships things or at the very least knows how to was gone or on vacation or generally MIA on Friday, FedExing became a challenge.

Our head of new business come up to me and says, Can you ship these two packages?  Sure, I say, not realizing this will take three times longer than it should.  I fill out a form online to pay for the shipping.  A label is emailed to me.  Following a few printing-size issues, I get the labels and affix them to some generic packaging we have.  I call FedEx to schedule a pick-up.

The friendly production director swings by my desk and says, Oh, that looks wrong.  Great.  The FedEx guy comes to pick up, but since now I'm sure they won't ship as is, I let him leave sans packages.  After calling another employee who was on vacation and checking with a lady that works in the office down the hall, I repackage, relabel and print more shipping info from online.  I ask the production guy if it look right now.  I guess, he says.  I run downstairs to the FedEx dropoff area hoping they get where they need to go.

I haven't heard otherwise, so I'm assuming they did.  And if they didn't, I can better streamline my FedEx packaging skills the second time around.

Another reason I've been away from the blog is another project that I have: finding long-term employment.  This internship is nice and I'm learning and have already learned a lot.  But it will be over at the end of August.  Which means I'm nearly halfway through my internship.

Which means my dad says I should have been looking for a job.  Yesterday.

I would like this internship to turn into full-time employment, but that still remains to be seen.  As my dad says, until you sign that contract, keep looking.  Anything can fall through at any point.  Which is of course terrifying, but true.

So I'm looking for some sort of writing job.  One thing that I've learned through this internship is that advertising is not as important to me as writing.  I would be happy writing about almost anything.  Advertising is really interesting and uses my marketing capabilities and I still want to know more about it, but writing is what I want to do most.  It's a slightly unexpected revelation, but definitely something I needed to figure out.