Career Ideas of the Week Part 2

 Dissertation in and the cloudy weather commences. Of course, right! Although I utilized the past few days of summer-like weather by heading beachside and reading by the pool. Can’t complain (too much!)

Now comes that overly fun time of spending the majority of my waking moments roving the internet looking for jobs!  What an exciting time! No really-- its sort of exciting knowing that I have no idea where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing in several months time. Right! Right?

So I’ve created a list of things I like:

Writing

Books

Fashion

Social Media

Internet

MTV

This is the short list, of course. My interests go much deeper than 7 words- but I’m attempting to mash my interests into a career focused job searchable title.

Web Content, Fashion journalist, novelist, social media expert… hmm do you know anyone? 

Career Ideas of the week

                                                                (via @ Zazzle )

Over the last few months I've spent a lot of time looking for jobs. Actually, make that looking for a "career". I'm not even sure how anyone defines career anymore as people change these "careers" around 8 times during their working lives... but I digress. I am on the hunt for something to do with my time that pays me money, allows me to buy fantastic things and travel. I'm not asking for much here!

I've had quite a few jobs over the past 10 years:

Working on a corn field - one summer was quite enough of that
Painting faces - amazing... when you're 14
Cashier -6 years was plenty
Office admin work - not all that ideal
Research- I liked it, but perhaps not medical research?
Server -being invisible is not really for me. Plus, I dislike the black pants, white crisp shirt look
Perpetual Student -downside: you end up with far less money than you started

I started thinking about what I do want to do. There seems to be a general lack of jobs out there right now, but I'm pretty sure something exists in the world. I can live in Canada and the EU, so my options are (hopefully) pretty open.

Option One: Fashion Publishing

You know the people that write the really rad blogs for Nylon Magazine? I want to do that. 

Option Two:  Researcher for Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart

I know this jobs exists, but I have no idea how to go about getting it. That being said, I want it. So I'll do a little more research this evening and see what I come across...

Option Three: Work for MTV

I'm not asking for a show here (or maybe I am?). I'd do anything at MTV... ok, mostly anything.

Option Four:  Food Critic

Seriously, these people eat at the best restaurants and then tell others how good or bad it was. I can do that! I'd want to work for a company like SeriousEats out of NYC... delicious.

I'm going to take my compiled list and see if I can make something happen. After, of course, I write about another 1,000 words on my dissertation this evening. Deadlines, people. Deadlines.

Wish me luck.