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Is there anybody around here who can help me with this one? |
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Journalism Background |
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03/20/2001 |
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Tentitively, I'm thinking of a marketing track in a related field, but I'll consider any good ideas.
The scenario is this: I am 12 foreign language credits away from a journalism degree, and have realized that I ultimately would like to wind up in interior design/decorating. I definitely plan to go back to school to study that, and get a relevant degree, but for now, my family is having trouble getting by financially, and I owe $60,000 from college which is already defaulted because I'm not working (I have a toddler at home taking most of my time). Going straight into a new degree isn't a option. I have to work first because I'm going to have to pay for this myself.
The problem is that I don't know if I can get an entry straight into that field on even an office support level now. Okay, the bigger problem is that I don't want to do anything that limits my options, such as working for five years as a receptionist in an interior design firm, only to find that there's something about THAT I don't want to do, and then to have to try to go into something more related to my original degree when I turned my back on it completely for years. I have enough problems in my job history (why should be evident at this point) without having to explain a loss of interest in my degree area just as I was supposed to graduate. Is there anything that any of you know about that can be seen as integrating journalism/communications/marketing and design that I can get into entry-level?
Okay, as you can see, I spend a substantial amount of time spinning the ol' wheels about this. I suppose the short answer is this: What jobs would I be able to get with an almost completed degree in journalism, that appeals to the creative side in me, has not-crappy pay involved (I don't expect top pay either), and combines a lot of the elements of my past and my future.
Tough one, but if anyone can answer it, I'll be your best friend. I will mail you ice cream every day for a week.
;-)
Shannonsmom |
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First, I recommend that you finish your degree. You're so close! Getting that done might help to offset all of the career/interest hopping on your resume. Have you worked as a journalist? Can you write about interior design or any of your other areas of interest as a way to get more info? More important: Can you write and get PAID for it? Before you change tracks to int. design, do some investigation. Talk to some designers about how they got started, what it took, how hard was it to break into that field & do they have recommendations for you?
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