Where I'm at

In February of last year I decided to leave my full-time job that had been going nowhere fast for at least a year and take a marketing internship. I went from a salary with benefits to an embarrassing stipend for a person of my age who is not a full-time grad student. So why did I do it? Well, I had known for a while that my full-time job was not going the way I thought it would when I had started. Last fall I took a marketing class to try out a hunch that it was the field I wanted to go into. An A later (thankyouverymuch) I was better prepared to dive into the job search.

Turns out, one marketing class does not a marketing maven make. So when the opportunity to take a six month internship in the marketing department of a magazine came up, I jumped at the chance to add some experience to my resume. My contract finished at the end of August and since then I have taken on some part-time publicity work to build those skills. Otherwise, I'm job searching pretty much all the time.

So what do I want to do? What's my dream job? I want to be.... well, I don't know. There are aspects of many careers that I would like to somehow combine. I just need to figure out where to start. I do have a good idea of what I want my dream office to look like, though...

The Triumphant Return

Well, I'm back. Luckily no one reads this, so I didn't leave anyone hanging.

When I started the blog, I was influenced by the magazine Vogue and thought, as one of those idealistic girls that move to New York in their early 20s, my goal should be to end up in their pages, photographed at some fabulous event (looking effortlessly glamorous, of course). Don't get me wrong- I would still be pretty happy with myself if that scenario were to work out. I began to disagree with the direction the magazine was taking, however, especially after reading the article that appeared in July, 2008 about the lack of diversity in modeling. I expected Vogue to put out something more thoughtful and sophisticated than just a collage of the five black models they have featured in the past 20 years. In protest, I cancelled my subscription and was glad that I did. (I was also impressed with the readers who so eloquently wrote in their disagreement.)

Since last summer, I have not thought of the blog too much. At times I considered what I could use it for, if I should save the name, and did I really have anything to write about (do any bloggers?). Seeing The September Issue- the night it came out- restored some of my faith in Anna Wintour, though I still believe her pulse for fashion is her real gift, not her editorial skills. (Sidenote: how much do you love Grace Coddington after that movie???)

In short, I'm back. My writing needs practice, if nothing else. I am still "hoping for vogue", but my definition of vogue is evolving.

*Hope Anna doesn't take any of this personally.

Image found here.