Work Experience – Day 2: Unleashing the Beast
Day 2 of my work experience program and I’ve forgotten to post up my blog while I was at the studio, again. Oh well, I guess I was too excited about my work to spare some time for writing. So here I am sitting on my humble throne, in front of my royal computer, in my average palace. Behold! the wonders of my 2nd day of work experience at the kingdom of Rockstar Memoirs.
I entered the studio with ‘killer enthusiasm’, eager to find out what I would be doing during the day. My magical touch brought the mac to life and I played around with photoshop for awhile, before helping Amelia out with their whiteboard calendar. It was rather exciting updating and organising the calendar. Not because I liked the variety of brightly coloured post-it notes, or the challenge of using double sided tape. It was because I was able to have an insight on the number of projects that the company was undertaking, witness how they organised their projects and the sort of system they used to maintain order in their work, and somehow silently share and relate to the rest of the team when it came to dreadfully looking at nearing deadlines on the calendar. Being part of my school’s yearbook team and also other groups outside of school, I felt a sense of familiarity with the routine, soon followed by a warm feeling of ‘belonging’. (Totally not cheesy!)
It was time to tackle the army of C6 coloured envelopes! After the calendar, I undertook the task of addressing, sticking, and stamping over 200 envelopes to their respective recipients. An easy job, you say? I think not! Though it didn’t require much creativity, mental knowledge, and bursts of imagination, it demanded consistency, focus, the ability to maintain a positive attitude, and a steady hand! All were qualities which I possessed of course. In all honesty, I wasn’t bored one bit. Call me crazy, but I was fine going through this manual labour. Thinking back, I realised that complete adoration and awe for their marketing strategies was more than enough to continue fuelling me. Rockstar was seeking to expand their services, so hand writing the addresses manually and using coloured envelopes to mail their TOTALLY EPIC advertisements was a strategic way to build a more personal connection with future clients. I was inspired.
In the afternoon, I moved on to brainstorming new yearbook templates and creating moodboards. This part of the day was what ignited my passion the most; it was like a drug which gave me highs. As Amelia was going through moodboards and template ideas with me, I could feel my spidey-senses tingling in the cases of delight. Excitement and adrenaline was moving in as I could feel my inner creative beast urging to be released. I went back to my work area, focused on my idea, and prepared myself before finally unleashing… the Incredibly Creative Beast within!
To sum everything up, I’ve learnt many new things today:
- An organised system of organising information and peoples work using and effective database and calendar arrangements.
- Effective marketing strategies implemented to other workplace.
- Introduction to moodboards, and the process of yearbook designs. (More on this tomorrow!)
At the same time, I’ve also noticed some aspects of myeslf that I need to further improve:
- Time Management
- Working faster
I know this is another long, drowsy entry, but it’s kind of difficult of condense my excitement and joy into short paragraphs. From my time at Rockstar so far, I’ve come to fully realise that the more you genuinely love your job, what you are doing, understand the reasons behind tasks and their positive outcomes, then you have a strong, firm foundation to build your work on. Loving what you do will give you the ability to maintain a positive attitude, and will help you press on in dull times or during times of stress and hardship.