Just another Manic Monday

I find myself singing that old Bangles song in the morning when I wake up and whirlwind through the house and as I race car drive to get to work.

It seemed to carry through as I was late, finally got some desperately needed coffee and spilled it all over my desk -nearly missing key components to my career including all my notes and laptop.

But I wouldn't expect less from a Monday, transitioning into the working version of myself is always met with resistance by the forces that be and, well, myself.

Just as Mondays can be difficult, Monday mornings can be worse than the dentist. Great thing is they pass by, I find myself looming closer to lunch still feeling optimistic about today. It always helps to get a positive email from an editor securing coverage for later this week that will thrill my client.

So if you are having one of "those" mondays, I hope you at least find some solace in the reasoning that it is only temporary and its almost lunch! :)

Email Blunders

I hope someone can learn from my mistake, I am pretty bummed about this one. I typed the wrong email for one person on an email going to the CFO, CEO, CMO and both my bosses. My initial reaction when I realized this mistake was to resend it to all so the email chain of responses would be corrected. It didn't work out well, and got a little messy.

Lesson: always double/triple check email addresses before sending out an email

On the same topic, beware of 'reply all' and remember anything you put on email or online is accessible to the worst person that you would want to know/have that information.

Quote of the Day: Ani Difranco

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”

Too Many Possibilities...twentysomething

I love where I am in life right now, but at times find myself overwhelmed with possibilities of where my life could go. I love my job, but often find myself daydreaming of other things completely unrelated to public relations and marketing that I could be doing.

As an example yesterday I seriously entertained the idea of being a cruise ship tour guide, where I would travel with the ship and take guests through the local tourism adventure. Its almost laughable to consider such an abrupt change in career and the origination of this idea is even sillier. I actually found a job listing that fit this description through Disney's cruise line based out of So Cal.

It is so exciting to think that next year this time I could be anywhere, and at the same time incredibly stifling to think that I will probably be in the same place. While theoretically that would not be a negative, but a positive, because I have a great job in a fabulous area and more experience with my firm would be very beneficial to my career overall. Its just that in my heart I know I crave change and adventure, but it really doesn't fit in with the corporate world and climbing the ladder. Stopping a career and putting it on hold sets you back, but I wish I could put this life on hold for just a year or two.

I seem to be whining about what my peers crave, a great job in a field I understand and exceed in using talents that come natural to me. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful, I realize what a blessing it is to succeed in work, but this is such a strong force that seems to be getting further away from a strong passion to travel and explore what the world has to offer. Naturally I do want to continue my education, most likely I am the kind of person that will forever be taking classes because I love learning. Graduate school and my masters degree excite me, but push me into this life and years away from exploring. It would be simple to say just do that later, but simple rarely solves the problem, as is here. I want to do this while I have no real commitments like a family or financial responsibility, and also I want to do this while I am still young. I hold this belief that people are transformed by new cultures and experiences and that without that we are lacking wholeness and perspective, this is what drives me in my continual curiosity and with this particular conundrum.

It would be amazing if I could do other things, explore other careers and the world and suffer no negative repercussions. I would get to go on the backpacking trip through Europe I had planned before I landed my "dream job." I need to travel, it truly is a need and no longer just a want, I can feel my soul lacking wholeness. Wouldn't it be dreadful to foster these regrets as realities later on?Any ideas would be helpful here, as clearly I feel stuck.

Imported blog to facebook

One of my many tech interests is the development of social media sites within the realm of the internet and society (the real world).

A pretty cool feature facebook has is importing blogs to coexist with it's "notes" feature, I took advantage of that and decided to breathe a little life into this blog.

Originally this blog was created for my free speech and responsibility class, but I hope to use it as a forum for more recent mentalities and adventures that come my way.

Hopefully this works, enjoy :)