Advertising...a really old passion that Im trying to feel again
When I got to University I kept thinking...what do I wanna do? It wasnt my choice to open this subject but it kinda became a must after a semester or two in university! So all I remember was I loved art but didnt think I was that good that I would be able to build a career on it...I remember liking the idea of psychology big time since I was big on sitting and talking to people about practically everything. Advertising popped into my mind as a nice combination of both plus something concrete I could build a career on. So the idea started growing in my mind, and actually I had already for years been collecting ads that I really liked and hanging them up in my room. So I knew I had a thing for visuals. Then came the question of whether to declare mass communication or business adminstration...both had similar marketing courses. I went for business with a marketing concentration and started a psychology minor as well. And of course as the uni years went by I started getting distracted from advertising by seeing other job choices through the courses I was taking and the types of jobs these courses would expose to me...you have market research, accounting, management, all these divisions of business that widened the scope! So I sorta buried this advertising idea since my studies didnt really expose it too much. But now...2 years later...I decided to quit my job suddenly to really give advertising a shot! I dunno if that hidden passion will reappear but so far exercising my creativity a little bit and also seeing results faster than my old job is pretty nice! Of course the slowness of the Egyptian way of doing things still exists as it will in alot of other places to work but at least with advertising you see the billboards, you see the promotions, you see the ads...so you see something at sometime! Whether I made the right choice in quitting my old job or not will appear later on I guess but I'm glad that at least I am giving it a try and that I wasn't my usual risk-averse self. It was a pretty tough decision to leave a place I was comfortable in, especially for an industry that has irregular hours and one that was known to eat at your social life. Here goes nothing I guess!

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