Welcome to my blog ♥
The first blog, the first post.
This page started as an assignment, but in my heart it has taken root. This has become my space, one where I can talk about anything. I can geek out about communications and psychology. Everyday problems, world issues, dissect ignorant articles, and even candid chats I can do it all here.
I can also stay relevant to job finding and career insight. I might even some DJ playlists and practice doing what I love.
Thank You for stopping by, 사랑해요.
Hello! 안녕하세요!
First, I want to thank you for taking the time to visit my site and poke around.
↑ This is me (The one in the cat ear headphones)
this is my favorite Band ↓ They are Korean.
I am currently a senior at University of the Pacific. It has taken me 10 years to get here but I made it!
If you don’t know what you want to do or have not found your passion yet, it is okay. Here is a story of how I recently found mine.
2010, I was a single mother looking for work. I was unsuccessful and knew in order to find a job to support us I was going to have to finish my education. My first plan was to get my general education requirements out of the way and do some exploring. School was not anything like I remembered. I was older than my classmates and some of my professors. I started online. That was a big fail. I did not have the right mindset to do well. I then decided to apply and go to school at Modesto Junior College.
Life took its course and several years later I moved to Stockton. To keep pushing forward I enrolled at Delta College. I ended up declaring a business as my major. I figured if I had a business degree I could find work in most places. I did well, overall I made good grades. I had to study hard and juggle school/family life and I was not entirely sure I was doing a good job.
One day my business professor remarked that I tied most of my content back to social circumstances or psychology. He suggested I talk to the psych department chair and change majors. I enrolled in a class that the Psychology chair taught and fell in love. We had a long talk about my interest in social sciences and understanding of “people”. I changed my major and dove in with enthusiasm. During a talk with career advisors questions about psychology positions and pay came up. At the time I did not think I was going to get an MA and for a profitable career in psych I would need to further my education. I did not think that I was going to be able to go for a Masters degree. With only one year left I turned my attention to transfer schools and I let this sat in the back of my head.
I graduated this year from SJ Delta College with an AS in Interdisciplinary Studies; Arts, Hum & Soc Sciences. My concentration was in Psychology. It is the first degree I have earned after high school. Sadly I was unable to have the celebration I was imagining. The class of 2020 also being the first class graduating during the Covid19 pandemic. Still my parents are pretty proud of me as I am also the first to graduate in my family.
After I decided on a school I printed the course requirements for different majors. I sat down with a highlighter and marked classes I would like/love to take. I crossed off classes I took at the lower division. In the end it was Dr. Carpenters personality from a school tour that won me over. He talked about internship at the school radio station. After my first semester I picked up a minor in International Studies.
Okay, so now my major and minor were declared. The list of what I could do with my degree is wide. There is a lot I can do but where is that butterflies-in-your-stomach job? The job that you want to wake up everyday for and you are excited to see what the day brings? Maybe that is just a Hollywood script. I was always told that by the time you graduate from high school you should already know what you want to do. College, a long time ago, in the ages of the dinosaurs, was about exploration and finding what is out there. (Not just the culturally passed around trope of “experimenting” with sex, drugs, alcohol) Here I was, already an adult, and mother. Why didn’t I have it all figured out? I was seriously confused. It was after taking classes taught by Dr. Maggie Bennett that I started to figure out what it was that I was drawn to. I will forever remember her and her enthusiasm. In the end it was a volunteer job that finally flipped the switch leading me to my “aha”.
An awesome person turned me on to a survey for volunteering to work a K-Pop concert. I was already interning at the University Radio Station with my own K-Pop segment, and in doing so became familiar with a few of their songs. The fans were intense and at first I was super nervous. I didn’t know the band members names or faces, It was my first time working a show with this type of company. I spent the whole night in San Francisco working and I had a blast! During the last segment of the night, when I would have been absolutely exhausted, I was oddly filled with energy. Seeing the fans and Artist feed off of each other filled me with an energy like no other, it was a self sustaining power core. Fuel for my inner being. On my drive home my brain was going a million miles an hour. How can I do this job? Where would I fit in?
I have been a heavy supporter of a certain K-Pop band for a few years now. I have attended one of their concerts and bought some albums. I have the fantasy to “someday” work with them but to me it was just that, a fantasy. I had applied for jobs with the company with much difficulty. I even looked into my major because I thought it might help me. In the end I was defeated. I felt “I will never attain this”. I had packed it away into the back of my mind and moved forward.
This magical night working with VAV rekindled the idea. So I mulled it over. What is it I really want? Working the concert was fun but I didn’t see a career in that. WHAT was it that actually fueled me? Support, not being in the spotlight but standing off to the side. I want to be there in order to provide my charges with whatever I can do so that they can continue making people this happy. Now comes the hard part. HOW? How do I do this? It seemed impossible. How do you get paid to essentially be best friends with awesome people? Like full on personal cheerleader and problem solver? Mental health advocate, English partner, conflict coach, and someone to turn to when life becomes to much (think suicide prevention). This became a driving force, now I had some direction.
I went back to my professors. One encouraged to reach out to music artist managers and go from there. I GOT ONE, SOMEONE REPLIED! An Artist’s
Manager (whom I admire) answered an email. He got in touch with me and we spoke for a few hours. My head was ready to explode, right after my heart because I was giddy with excitement. My pipe dream was starting to look less fantasy and more something attainable.
With a new spark of hope I dove headlong into brainstorming.
I can really do this
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Make a list of necessary skills (like learning Korean).
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Make a list of contacts, companies, people to reach out to.
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Plan to go to back to Seoul, network in person and practice my Korean.
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Graduate and consider Grad school.
This is what I want. Now make that a power statement.
I want to work for Big Hit Entertainment as a Communication Specialist!
