Ok … now this is the stage in which I describe myself?  Hmm … well for one, I’m an advertising major a San Jose, CA University.  The funny part of this is that I never wanted to go into advertising or even any sort of business related field.  I always thought myself far away from all that.  Business and everything related was my mom.  So I started out my college career  as a journalism major – which coincidentally is in the same college as advertising – thinking I would change the world.  Think I was a bit naive?  A bit optimistic?  Well, the reality of journalism opened my eyes.  Under all the optimism in college journalism, I could just see the layer bull—- that coated the bottom.  Idealism told me that I could believe the newspaper, Reality told me that every story had a personal skew on it.  So did I stick it out and try to change the system … NO!  I became part of the system.  Rather, I took a beginning advertising course with the expectation that I would minor in advertising and came out loving advertising.  How did I know I was an advertising gal?  Well when you hate your teacher so much and love everything she teaches, get the clue that this is the field for you.  I looked at journalism and looked at advertising and thought, “If I have to be a part of the system, I’d rather be upfront about it.”

Granted it did take me a year before I decided to switch my major.  And it was long year for all those around me, as I complained and whined about journalism while wondering whether I should switch my major.  And then the summer before I became a senior, I finally decided to switch over!  Yay for me!  But my parents still wanted me to graduate within 4 1/2 years, so here I am, in the last semester of my fourth year and trying desperately to graduate by next semester.

As of now, I am working as an Account Manager for the on campus newspaper, the Daily (as part as a hugely understaffed department) and working in the Fundraiser Committee at the  Ad Club.  This blog is about my journey to becoming a professional, or at least, a decent advertiser in a shaky field of business, in a shakey economy.  Let’s hope for the best people of the web, let’s hope for the best.

(I know, crappy ending, but I’m tired and I’ll work on it later … or I never will and you’ll get frustrated and leave flamey comments.  Either way, meh)