Wow, time flies...I am about to hit my two-month mark at Weber Shandwick. (And, while yes, I would love a job with them - I recognize that client budgets need to allow a position to actually open before I can even be offered anything. So I am actively searching for post-Weber opportunities starting now. If you know of anyone that is looking to hire on a young-PR professional (particularly in a salaried, with benefits, non-intern way) let's chat!
All-in-all though, life is good. The commute is still epic (perhaps even more so thanks to the increasingly cold and rainy late fall weather) which means I am reading all the time (recent recommendations: Never Let Me Go, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Lamb, A Reliable Wife). I am also ever-so-slowly improving at Words with Friends, so if you are an iPhone-user interested in a Scrabble-battle, we should talk. Work itself is increasingly interesting, the more I get to understand and put my own stamp on my markets (still Detroit and Philly). I spend a lot of time on the phone conducting outreach, about encouraging federal benefit recipients to get their payments electronically. Over the last several weeks I've established partnerships with Meals-on-Wheels programs, American Red Cross and Goodwill chapters, food banks and local government offices that deal with everything from intellectual disabilities to aging. It's enjoyable because the people at these organizations genuinely want to improve the lives of the people they work with and although I do pester/stalk them, it's in the interest of further helping those people - so everyone gets off the phone happy (me, because they are spreading my campaign message, and them, because the people they work with will get financially educated).
Socially, I just have to say - strangely enough, there is more to do in Chicago than central Illinois Sorry, Champaign. We had a great 4 years, but recently Chicago has offered Sara Bareilles at the House of Blues, a friend's birthday party on a trolley and a classy charity fundraiser.
More to come. As always, I'll try and write more often - it's just that my daily time spent with the Metra and CTA consume more free time than I even care to admit...
All-in-all though, life is good. The commute is still epic (perhaps even more so thanks to the increasingly cold and rainy late fall weather) which means I am reading all the time (recent recommendations: Never Let Me Go, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Lamb, A Reliable Wife). I am also ever-so-slowly improving at Words with Friends, so if you are an iPhone-user interested in a Scrabble-battle, we should talk. Work itself is increasingly interesting, the more I get to understand and put my own stamp on my markets (still Detroit and Philly). I spend a lot of time on the phone conducting outreach, about encouraging federal benefit recipients to get their payments electronically. Over the last several weeks I've established partnerships with Meals-on-Wheels programs, American Red Cross and Goodwill chapters, food banks and local government offices that deal with everything from intellectual disabilities to aging. It's enjoyable because the people at these organizations genuinely want to improve the lives of the people they work with and although I do pester/stalk them, it's in the interest of further helping those people - so everyone gets off the phone happy (me, because they are spreading my campaign message, and them, because the people they work with will get financially educated).
Socially, I just have to say - strangely enough, there is more to do in Chicago than central Illinois Sorry, Champaign. We had a great 4 years, but recently Chicago has offered Sara Bareilles at the House of Blues, a friend's birthday party on a trolley and a classy charity fundraiser.
More to come. As always, I'll try and write more often - it's just that my daily time spent with the Metra and CTA consume more free time than I even care to admit...
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