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< now i'll have to think up a new job title... | posted at 1:26 pm on April 25, 2004 > so i guess i should develop on the big spack i had at work about a week ago, i don't think i wrote what i said to her on tuesday, but here it is.so i went back to her on tuesday and said i wasn't doing anything creative, and if only i could do something on the creative side, that would be great. i said i like photography, design and editorial. i said i wanted to be more involved in that and if there was any chance i could be, i'd take it. so she said they might need someone in editorial, she'll talk to the editor, and photography yeah sure no problem, and design well we'd have to wait and see. but she'd find out the opportunities, but it looked most likely to be an editorial position at this stage. the next day i was sick and our art director resigned. talk about coincidence. so on thursday there are all these meetings and i could just tell they were talking about me and what was going to happen to this art director position and where i would go and stuff. then on friday my boss talks to me again - and the verdict is that gradually, as the art director leaves (which, by the way, is not actually a good thing, i heart my art director and think he's one of the most intelligent, witty and creative people i know, and i'll miss him to bits - he's the one i have a little bit of a 'talent crush' on) and this other guy who lays out our other magazine makes up templates and style sheets etc, i would lay out the mag pretty much, bit by bit it would become mine. they couldn't give me the art director's job because well - ok, i'm a student and that would just be ridiculous. BUT i would lay out the mag and do photo shoots for it, organise photo shoots, and be general art person there - for proposals, media kits, business cards - anything that required designing. before this there wasn't an in-house art person for that stuff - art director just did the magazine, that's all. so he's going to be around for another 2 months during which i need to shape myself up design wise, package my job into an easily teachable one, and get ready to move into this new position. i'm still not thrilled, i'm waiting for it to all turn out to be some sort of crazy dream, and it to all come crashing down on my head. i'll celebrate when i put my first cover to print. right now i have my period and i'm still sick so i'm about to die from pain. PS. no i didn't forget - happy anzac day, i'm thinking of gallipoli, are you? those last five |