too legit...

//It just keeps getting more real. Big girl jobs are the best.

-->love S

oh happy day!

hello!//This is a day I thought would never come soon enough, but it came and I can not be more thrilled! After about five months of interning and hoping to find my pair of big girl pants...I found a pair! That's right my internship turned into my very first big girl job!! Luck has been on my side, there is no doubt about that.

No more wondering and waiting, no more trying to figure out Plan B or Plan C, no more job hunting and being discouraged, NOPE no more. I am officially a Marketing Coordinator and now on to planning my next big girl moves. Apartment hunting, furniture shopping, saving and paying off....all that good grown up stuff that I've heard about. This great news happened this past Thursday and it's as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and it feels amazing!

I guess I'm on the right track. College, degree, internship and now a full-on, grown up job. Life is GOOD. It's all I can say and I'm so grateful to them for giving me a shot and hiring me. 

If I've learned anything from this experience and I have, it really is important to network, get to know the right people, put your resume out there, never give up and just keep pushing through it with positive thoughts. If I didn't talk about what I'm doing in school, what I want to do when I get done to different people this would have never had happened to me. TALK. It's all about communication. Never give up an opportunity to just meet up with someone in your interested field and talk to them and get to learn more...you never know what it will lead to. I should know. 

Now onto working my little butt off and making this office here feel more permanent and more like me. It's a great time to decorate an office, MY office, if I do say so myself.

-->love S

growing up & getting out there.

*note: these are my "work shoes." i love them.

hey there// Disheartening. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think back at all the job hunting I have done recently. Disheartening. I feel as if there’s nothing out there, nadda. Realistically I HAVE found a whole bunch of job listings, the only problem is that I’m not “qualified” or have enough experience. To get a job that falls under the kind of big girl pants I want, I have to have three to five years experience. Now someone please tell me when I was suppose to be getting these years of experience as I worked two full-time jobs and went to college full-time, someone…please tell me.

After you graduate college you’re given an illusion that jazzing up your resume and being the determined graduate that you are, you’re going to conqure the world! But wait, they forgot to tell you…you need to catch a lucky break. It’s not as easy as it sounds. 

So far I have been lucky. Before I graduated college, somehow I lucked out and lined-up a paid internship to start right after my last semester as a marketing coordinator at a law firm. It was all be chance really. Pretty awesome, uh? And the next lucky thing about it…I love it! Now, working at a law firm wouldn’t had been my first pick, why? Well because, I didn't realize law firm's even had marketing...now I know. I don't know if this is my dream job, but you never really know what your "dream" job is until you're actually in it. 

Even though I now work at a "stuffy" law firm (haha), my boss, she is amazing! She’s not mean or intimidating. She creates a welcoming, relaxed environment at work. She wants me to learn all that I can while I’m here, and for all that I’m appreciative.

I have learned a lot here. I've grown my resume and porfolio so much, and my writing skills, I feel have improved as well. My boss has worked everywhere, been in so many different industries for pr and marketing, and the stories she has to tell are priceless! All in all I would say, so far I have been lucky since graduating college, I have. I just hope my luck doesn’t run out, now that I’ve started looking for permanent big girl jobs. Thank goodness St. Patty’s day is just right around the corner. Maybe I’ll capture myself a leprechaun…

—>love S