Job searching in the A-town.
I'm a college grad i'm relatively smart, why can't i find a job i'm even moderately interested in? Ha it's not like i don't know. I have a degree in psychology which is slightly more valuable than a used piece of toilet paper and slightly less valuable than notebook paper. I have a job right now, it's decent but nothing i'm willing to give my full effort to, because it's so obvious i'm getting used. A lot of people there feel like they are part of the Apple movement, but it's just another corporation run by a really smart guy. I identify with the smart guy more than i do the people that work for him, at the lowest level none the less.
On Craigs List i saw an ad for an Evangelist! Ha not the kind that you'd immediately think of, the kind that vote for Mitt Romney, but the Guy Kawasaki kind, who go out into the world after the engineers have done their jobs and gone home, to tell people about transformational products to change and improve their lives. I'm an evangelical type. There is a position at Apple Corporate called an Evanelist, they usually take engineers who are social and sent them out to tell people why they should buy into new technology that Apple creates and why they should develop solutions that integrate into the Apple vision of lifestyle computing. I wanna do that!
The post on Craigslist requires 5 years of software marketing, and the ability to think for yourself and build solutions. The second two i can DO. But i dont have any experience, remember i studied psychology.
What i lack in educational strength i KNOW i more than make up for in forward thinking, getting the job done and staying under the budget. I know how to market and talk to people and evangelize, i know about the internet, technology, computers the economy like only a technology maven like a Guy Kawasaki, Marc Andressen or Seth Godin can. I dont want to take the educational route, i want to make a mark in business then attempt to change and inject forward thinking into academia.
I understand that i probably wont jump straight into a $30G position 9 months out of college in a field i have no experience in. I'm NOT trying to do straight up graphic design, i took that because it presented itself to me and i market myself as a magazine/print designer. But i'm willing ot do internships, i really want to get in at Spunlogic which is an interactive marketing agency located here in atlanta.
My most valuable asset is to connect two very disparate dots together, into a relationship and then to exrapolate a third dot somewhere outside of those two concepts as to where to take this next. I read blogs, books, articles and faces voraciously.
I'm hungry to go out here and make my mark in this new media kinda world. There aren't too many (pronounced, ANY) new media oriented individuals coming out of historically black colleges and universties, why is that?