How to Keep on Going…

So since I lost my job I am trying to find another one asap. I am looking on Craigslist, newspapers, Monster and Careerbuilder and I have signed up to talk to a recruiter for creatives next week. I have also decided that I want to try to break into the Copywriter aspect of the advertising field. I am sure that I will have to start from the bottom and that is entirely fine, seeing as I am not long out of school anyway. I hope to write some spec radio scripts and maybe do some more spec ads for my book. I have a lot of examples of my copywriting in my book already, and I have always had great feedback from professors about my writing. Even from some people who interviewed me when I was looking for my first job. Maybe that should have been a sign huh?

The truth is that, even in school I have always enjoyed the research and writing aspect of my assignments more that anything else. And I plan to do the work to be better at it. I hope to sign up for creative writing classes, and look at well written ads and reading more. If I had the money I would go to one those portfolio schools like Creative Circus in Atlanta. People who go to these schools come out of them with shiny and perfectly art directed books to showcase their work. Can you imagine having to compete with these people when you just managed to pay your way through a 4 yr school to get a BFA in Communication Design or whatever? They get to spend an extra 2 years polishing everything to point where you even wonder if they wrote or art directed this themselves, or was it spit out by some Graphis, Comm Art magazine and One Show vetted machine!

Maybe I'm just bitter, but God has already given me my second challenge after school in the form of the loss of my job. It's up to me to figure out how to keep on going. Dear reader, I hope you find the strength to keep on going in the face of your challenges too.