Phreshly Squeezed

I’ve been working and interning since I was fifteen, which many would consider early. Let me put it this way: most retail stores don’t hire unless you’re at least sixteen, and many of my friends didn’t get their first jobs until they were seventeen or eighteen. I also never really never had any connections; as if anyone (family friends and relatives included) I knew had any influence over anything aside from the pen on their desk. The only way that was available to me was my own.

Blogging used to be my way of keeping a journal. It was incredibly personal and real, but let’s face it: no one cares to read about every moan and groan of life. That, and the fact that I was not a good writer. But eventually, I grew out of that phase and ditched the whole web design scene. Only recently did I discover the importance of having a blog and knowing to have a focus.

Over the past two years, I’ve not only watched a streetwear clothing line, JUZD, grow, but also their see company blog change. The content used to be very sparse and covered only the designer’s trips to the US and China. But over the last year, the blog started developing more with coverage of local JUZD events and fun ideas, such as weekly styling and re-styling of outfits with use of the JUZD shirts.

Accompanied by the various fashion blogs I was following, such as The F-Word, the F-List, POSHGLAM, and The Quest for “It,” I figured out what exactly I wanted to do in school – communications. I always had the idea that I would major in psychology and specialize in adolescent mental disorders, but truth be told, I’m not a very academic person. Well, I can learn, write, and analyze with ease, but I very much enjoy being hands-on and having practical training. Communications seems to be a good fit; it’s related to everywhere I’ve worked and I really do enjoy it.

One of the essentials for this work field, though, is to demonstrate knowledge of blogging tools and know how to write. I’ve got the writing requirement down pat with some of the articles that I’ve written for JUZD, but what about showing off that I know how to use WordPress? So I set up this blog again, and recently took the search engine optimization seriously, with an interest on fashion and trendy finds. No longer did my blog seem all over the place. Now there were ideas of what my blog was about and I could easily tell the blog directories and link exchanges that.

Proof that blogging really does help is the fact that I was recently offered a position with The Ability Project. They had found me on The College Blog Network and were impressed with my social media skills, and thus, offered me a fall internship before I even stepped foot in the city.

In a way, blogging shows off some of the technical skills I have, as well as expresses my interests and personality. Whoever said that blogging was for whiners and got you nowhere had no idea about what they were saying.

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