It is not a surprise that I’ve started thinking about the job I want to acquire after college. Lets face it, I’m graduating college in a little over a year and the real world is knocking at the back door. The Ithaca College integrated marketing communications program is providing me with not only the skills and knowledge for any job in the field of communications but a well rounded perspective on the ad, pr and marketing fields. I’m confident that I will walk out with a bachelors degree that will be applicable for a number of careers.
Since freshman year I have found myself associated with the area of advertising more than anything else. Something about it just makes me gravitate towards it and not want to let go. 3 years ago I set my sites on working for an advertising agency. Through different internship experiences and my classes I’ve decided which area in advertising I want to pursue – account planning/strategy.
Is this my dream job? To be an account planner? Of course…?
Right now I see account planning as more of a job aspiration rather than my “dream job”. As a kid, your “dream job” is something out of a movie or a fairytale that you fantasize about being in the distant future, “when you grow up”. “Dream jobs” are occupations like ballerina, or astronaut. How can my dream job be something that I confidently feel like I can achieve?
Today, I was reading a book about bidding for the 2012 Olympics. Written by Mike Lee, the director of communications and public affairs for the London Olympics, the book explain what goes into bidding for the Games as it tells the story of how the London Olympics came to be. Then it clicked! I found my new “dream job”. When I’m older I want to work on a bid for an Olympics. Since I was little I have been fascinated with the biannual tradition and the idea of bring it to life is… a dream.
So here I am, 20 years old (almost 21). I declare that “when I grow up” I’m going to work on an Olympic bid.
Marissa Osowsky 