Hmm, Life after Proposal

Taylor Newcomb

I believe there is life after proposal, simply because this proposal will end in a little over a year. However, this is just the easy bit. The next part is quite hard. The part is finding a job. Until then, we just have to figure out what our project would be, or what it will be based upon. But, despite the search for the job or the need for the project, we will still be facing Freedom after the project. Even with that freedom, there are still the problems of responsibility and all that. It will be a pain, but the biggest pain of all (the project) will be a mediocrely happy memory. After that project, I will finally be able to start my real life and career, something I have waited a long time for. 

I am here to be able to get a great degree that lead's to a cherry job. I feel that my project will lead to that job. I may not be completely sure what my final product will be in the project field but I feel that whatever I end up doing will give me a new understanding of how everything works in public relations. That is what I want most for my life after project: Knowledge. With knowledge, I will be able to enter the field and understand how everything works and connects to each other and how to manipulate it to get the desired results. 

I don't want to be "Lucky Jim" and fall backwards into a position. I want to be someone that organizations come after. Yes, I can hear your laughs, but it's not like I want to own the Dallas Cowboys (if you watch the Simpsons, you'll get that). I just want respect and to feel needed in the job world. And to do that, I need to complete a great project. 

After the project, it will take some hard work to get through the first few years of trying establish myself, but with that project in the can it would allow give more credence. With an emphasis on Bernays and propaganda, it should allow me a greater step. Even though, Bernays' work is decades old it is still very relevant and can still be incredibly useful now. 

The audience I am looking to influence is the public relations field. That field is the one that will give me my job and my future. It would be important for my peers in the field to know what work I have done and how I did it. With this, I will be able to show that I belong so that I can continue on in the career and get a better job after every few years. I am not sure whether I want to work for a public relations firm, a corporate communications department, or a government agency, but I am sure that I need to reach out to those people as an audience in order to impress them and gain a standing in the field.