It is really hard for me to put into words how I feel as this week comes to an end. For the last three years at Ithaca College studying advertising, marketing and public relations, I have always told myself advertising was right for me. I’ve excelled at projects that involved advertising and pursued positions involving advertising and advertising affiliated organization. But this week for the first time I felt in my heart that advertising was right for me. For the first time at a job I could deliver work and sign my name to it. I experienced the warm feeling of being proud of my contributions and new that what I had done not only fulfilled my duties but resulted in a positive outcome.
With my supervisor on vacation, it was just her boss and myself in charge of our account. I knew heading into the week that this was my time to step up and prove myself as a worthy participant. This would also be a time that my supervisor’s boss would need to take a chance on me. She couldn’t do both her job and my supervisors job and thus had to be willing to hand over some of the responsibilities to me. This week I was more involved than ever before from seeing projects through to managing creatives. My knowledge and skills played a key supporting role in getting tasks done this week and did not go unnoticed by my supervisors boss. It is an amazing feel to be trusted.
On Wednesday morning my supervisor’s boss also gracefully made it clear that she would like to do whatever she could to make sure I learn as much as I can about account management during my last few weeks at Mullen. This feeling of being taken under her wing was one that read on my face for the rest of Wednesday.
Overall, this week has changed my opinion of account management all together. Not only do I enjoy being the hub of knowledge for both the client and the agency, but I can actually see myself doing this as my career. This week has shed light on the creativity that exists in the world of account management, from selling a concept to the client or just knowing the brand well enough to assist creative decisions. I doesn’t hurt that even as an account management intern I got to tell full-time creatives what to do. mwahahah.
This week has just confirmed that for the last 3 years I was right thinking advertising was right for me. Now I feel that more than anything. I wish that everyone could feel this way about their prospective career.
Fingers crossed next week continues in this positive direction when my supervisor returns!
Summer Insight Series Take Aways:
So each week we have a “lunch and learn” event with someone from the agency and all the interns where we have the opportunity to learn more about the area of advertising, the people who work at Mullen and their experience of working in advertising and at Mullen.
Marissa Osowsky 