Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
-Kenneth Hildebrand (from QuotationsPage.com)
Several times I have been asked where I wanted to be in X number of years. Each time, I respond honestly, for better or worse, usually with an “I don’t know.” Truthfully, never did know exactly where I would wind up but didn’t particularly care to attempt to set that in stone myself. I’ve been more concerned with what I would like to do than the when or where of it.
As for a personal goal, I’ve always just wanted to be where I could do good. Honestly, if I didn’t have bills to pay, I’d work for free if it meant I could have a job I loved. Fortunately, I’ve been afforded several opportunities in recent years to enhance my experience, and each opens a door to the next. As you can guess by this blog, I’ve found myself working (and playing) with social media and I’ve made it my goal and desire to make it my profession.
Since my early days of college, I’ve become more and more interested in individual and organizational communications media. I started out trying my hand in broadcasting through working at the campus radio station, then later tried print journalism through the campus newspaper and an internship working with an organization’s communications department and their publications. The more worked around the “traditional” media, the more I kept seeing new media emerging, and the more interested I became.
While I don’t know where exactly, I’ll wind up, I do know that I want to work with social media, whether as a part of a firm or organization or freelancing/writing on my own (who knows, maybe even teaching someday). I guess I’m drawn to the more open form of communication social media cultivates, maybe it’s more of a fascination. In the end, it’s an area that I enjoy working in, and as my grandfather used to advise me: “Do what you love doing.”
- Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
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