This project - redesigning a website, for those outside my class who might be reading this - has been enlightening. It has confirmed for me that I do NOT want to go back to working in website design! As much as I have enjoyed this project, it was the opportunity to go back to my past that made it so much fun; like when you spend the day watching television shows from your childrood. A full day of The Muppet Show is a treat; a daily diet of it gets old really fast.
As I get closer to graduation, I have to make the hard choices of which path to take. I do believe my heart is set on teaching and/or writing, but there is a part of me that is sad to know - for certain - that I will be shutting the door on Marketing. I was only 7 years old when I decided that was what I wanted to do with me life, and started educating myself with that goal in mind ar age 12; taking enrichment classes in videography and television production; Economics classes at 14; and Marketing through my city's vocational high school a year later. I eventually graduated as the Outstanding Student (the equivelant of Valordictorian), with a perfect 4.0 GPA and a head full of hopes and dreams.
For almost 30 years, I lived, ate, and breathed Marketing. I saw changes that people once thought impossible - the launching of a fourth major TV network (FOX); the turn towards computer design over freehand artwork; the birth of the Internet...the future is here, and I am content to leave it to a new generation and to step off in a new direction - but it is nice to wallow in the past every once in a whie, if only to remember from whence I came.
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