my first blood

I guess there's nothing sweeter than finally getting your first salary! and i finally got mine! wohoo!

Im still surviving and i think getting my first blood helped make me want to stay for as long as i can take things..

There have been improvements with regards to what they make us (meaning the team) do.. now we have all sorts.. from caricatures, to mock ups, to posters and FA's, stages and all that stuff.. I like it, its fun.. but at the same time, there ARE very unreasonable ideas and rules you can never imagine..

I wouldnt want to spill the company's name or anything but for some strange reason our big guy opened a networking business and he required all of his employees to recruit for it.. (i mean hello?! what the heck!! are you crazy or something?!) until a given date, hopefully after that its over but if we had to go through that til forever im really quiting.. that's one thing that makes me want to leave... the other one was... he wanted our department rooms to be really clean (nothing wrong with that of course and i think he's right) but what's wrong is, he would hold the salary for as long until your place is totally and i mean totally clean.. Imagine scrubbing the ceilings and floor and meeting deadlines..

His ideas are sometimes over the top!... Remember that we always have General Assembly's on Mondays now this coming Monday things would be different... He wanted to test everyone's strength and endurance.. so he planned a boot-camp/war games kind of General assembly.. We are actually going to a military training camp just for that... But im looking forward to it.. i always love doing things like that..

And a long list follows this.......

Oh well.. i guess the only thing that id be proud of once i get to survive here is that i know i can deal with the "toughest and weirdest" situations ever...

wohoo!! first blood!!!!

On shaky ground

ALREADY?!?!?

DOn't get me wrong.. i LOVE my job... but its more than what i really expected. Ive heard of not going home and not sleeping for a project, but not sleeping and staying in the office for 24 hours not to mention working on saturdays and sundays?? hmmmm i guess that's a little too much...

I dont like the boss.. im scared of him, the very sight of that short, fast-walking creature scares the hell out of me.. Its like when he's around my world just stops!!

But i really dont know... im like, i love this job, i love my workmates, i love the culture of the company.. but i dont think i'll last and its far from my dream job... im not for Final Artworks (yea yea i ought to master how to do that) but id rather think of a concept and design and execute it.. I really dont know..

*sigh*

we'll see, we'll see....

Tadah! Welcome to the Creative Industry!

Finally! im officially a working girl and a graphic designer!.. Im starting tomorrow! hahaha

This is it! a fresh start for the fresh grad!

After going through a whole lot of interviews i finally got hired!.. And ive realized, probably the only thing that kept me from getting hired was cuz i was still in school and they really need someone who'd be totally devoted to the job and all that.. so maybe they were really impressed with my performance and portfolio, it just wasn't the right time then.. but anyway, past is past and now IM HIRED!!

Im excited of course, considering that the team im in is composed of people ive known from school, and who i once was close to.. (it really pays to have friends of all sorts, you know, one from the rockers, and from the prim and proper.. that kind of thing.. i guess you learn alot from them more than sticking to just one kind or whatever you call that).. Also, ill be having my own desk.. and a brand new Mac to work with (and on)... and ill get paid!!!!

What im worried about is the working hours.. since its an advertising agency.. time is very flexible.. ive recently learned taht my friend who got hired 2 weeks before me slept in the office with the rest of the team just for a project.. so imagine that...

Im actually having mixed emotions right now, im not sure if my decision of jumping in as early as now is a good one... No more late night chats and movie marathons and sleeping and being a bum for me from now on.. But more than anything of course im excited.. i think its just going to be like me going to college classes again, only with new professors (the bosses) new classroom and school (office) and some old and new friends ...

im blessed.. its an answered prayer for me.. i really hope this is my first stepping stone to reach my dreams!

Wish me luck!