So it’s been a long while since I sat at the Innovation Journalism conference (two days after quitting my job as a PR lady at a boutique agency that handles tech clients) and madly transcribed various panelists talking about innovation, journalism and Innovation Journalism to log what turned out to be my last blog entries for some time. Yes, a long while indeed. Since then, I took a job at a new PR agency — a bigger agency with much bigger clients and a higher degree of hubub — and also quit that job. Two weeks later.
The amount of hubub and email (156 in one day) seemed a little over the top for me seeing as I wasn’t sure whether I even wanted to be in PR or not and exactly how I ended up there in the first place. OK, to be fair to myself, I know how I ended up in PR. It had something to do with the day that I was driving to my job as a tech reporter and upon spinning off the road and winding up in a ditch thought, “maybe if I get hurt just enough, I won’t have to go to work for a while.” I went home, logged on to Craig’s List, found the PR job and applied. It was great while it lasted and a fun education in and of itself. And really, isn’t that what we all hope for with our jobs? The chance to learn something new?
But there has been this nagging feeling, little voice, whatever you want to call it, that has been telling me that this is just not it. So at this point, I’m career hunting. I’m sitting here with a pile of books, including Cool Careers for Dummies and The Anti 9 to 5 Guide and an issue of Outside that I stole from my therapist’s office for the article, “The 50 Best Jobs: Recession-Proof, Adventure-Packed Careers” and wondering how to begin this process of finding what it is that will make me want to get up every morning and bound out into the world.
So far, I’ve been creatively unemployed since June 30. I’ve been avoiding the blog because that’s what you do when your life takes an unexpected turn. Or at least, that’s what I do. Stop blogging just when things get really interesting. Today’s plan: Finish Culture and Consumption II by Grant McCracken. He is a brilliant cultural anthropologist who I found via his blog: CultureBy: This Blog Sits At The Intersection of Anthropology and Economics. And then start in on a second Anthro book that I ordered from Amazon.
