Bre's Adventures in Career Land

So I'm just going to tell you now, this blog is going be career focused for the next couple months and my friends, I will tell you the obvious why. I need to find a job. I went to visit my brother, Casey, in Boulder shortly before school started. My escapade turned out to be much more than just a trip, however. I had a lot of revelations on my trip starting with the thought: "holy shit, I'm graduating in four months and have no clue where I'm moving or what I'm doing."

Now, this isn't totally true. I know I want to go into PR and before my trip I had Seattle and Portland, respectively, as my top spots to live. I found, however, that I loved Denver. It wasn't the love you get after you live in a place for a while and it starts to feel like home. I drove into the city, took one look and knew I love it. My intuition proved to be correct as I continued my tour and it wasn't long before I knew this was where I wanted to be.

So, step one of the career search is done. I have my top locations:
1. Denver
2. Seattle
3. Portland

From there I have spoken with a couple of my networking contacts who have very generously offered to recommend me not only at their companies, but also help me in any other way they can (i.e. sending my resume to friends at other companies I like, etc). I love my networking contacts. I'm 95% percent done editing my resume and have the majority of my cover letters hashed out. Tomorrow is company research day and then begins the writing sample process.

Have I mentioned I like to plan, be prepared, and also stress until I have things figured out?

The whole point of this blog is not tell my avid readers (do I have any?) about my plans but to tell you that I'm planning and that I'm dreaming. I'm finding myself and deciding the rest of my life. It's stressful but it's amazing. I can't tell you about the feeling of driving into Denver and feeling your heart swell; of feeling like you're home in a place you'd never been.

The trip was influential in my life. I had a lot of revelations about what I want out of the next couple months and a couple changes in plans. So, wish me luck on my journey into complete adulthood. I think I'm ready, I hope I'm ready. It's going to be an adventure and that's the best part.

Also, check this out. It's a hilarious commentary on birth control advertising. Everytime I see I laugh even harder and now because of this clip, I have friends telling me how excited they are about my vaginal ring. Watch it and you'll get it...

Bennigan's and the Leprechaun Cards

I'm sorry for the lack of posting but it's been a crazy month between cousins visiting, my birthday, friends moving, work, and planning some other trips. In honor of my birthday I'm just going to highlight a site my friend Michal found and used to send me a birthday card. If you go to this site you can create an e-card of a leprechaun that has your face. It's fun, entertaining, and a little creepy to see your face with a red beard, at least it was for me. It's close to a Madlibs in the respect that you choose the occasion, scene, and have choices of what the leprechaun says.

It kind of reminds me of the OfficeMax Christmas promotion of "Elf Yourself" where you created yourself as an elf. Bennigan's did a good job of making it entertaining. As a plus, when you do it you get a coupon for a discount.

I'm sorry this is short but I'm tired and not feeling all that well so I'm off to bed. I'll try to be better about posting from here on out!