Career considerations

College is essentially behind me now.  With two months of iD Tech at UC Irvine in my pretty much immediate future, it's tempting to put off thoughts of my career until August.  But my brain doesn't work that way.

Any 'conversation' I have with myself about my career has to include the two major influences in my professional life: graphics and iD Tech.

Through Rhode Island College and my work with the newspaper, I've found a love of design, of publishing, of managing, and of communicating content (and acquired formidable skills at it to boot!).

Through iD, I've found of love of teaching, organizing fun, and being involved in child development.

Ultimately, I would like my main career to be set in the publishing world; I think I'd greatly enjoy doing layout or being art director for a magazine, or designing and typesetting book's for a major publishing house.  It's a bit dorky, but I think that'd be great fun.

That said, I've thought fairly seriously about pursuing a career with iD.  'What career,' one might ask, 'is there in seasonal employment with a tech camp company?'  The answer being to reach for their full-time positions, namely, to eventually become a regional manager.  One would do this by eventually becoming Director at one of their smaller locations (like Brown), then directing at increasingly larger locations, taking on more responsibility, honing big camp organizational and problem solving skills.  From there one could be hired as a Regional Manager, and be in charge of several camps.

It's a tempting thought.  iD has only benefitted from its growth, it's continued to do well in spite of the poor economic climate, and it's just a great place to work.

This means figuring out a way to work in the meantime while keeping my summers open for iD.  One way I've devised to potentially do this is to get certified to substitute teach in RI (something that only requires a college degree), and do freelance graphic design and publishing work.

That being said, I've got a couple of self-motivated publishing projects in mind for the longterm.  I will probably go into more detail on those in the future.