Life after Red

Yesterday was my last day as a PR assistant at Red Agency. The past four months have absolutely flown by and I've learnt an incredible amount. But I'll miss the team the most. It makes me wonder if I love PR because I love PR, or because I love them. Let's say it's probably a bit of both.

Prior to my internship I had never considered a career in PR, and now I see it being as being a real option. I love the variety of clients that working in an agency gives you. I love the busy work environment because it makes it feel like yesterday that I was being interviewed, asking for my login details and being shown how to use the coffee machine.

I will miss all the "Colin" references, pulling out "the claw" at waiters with canapés, Adam's appetite, sword dance and obsession with Delta Goodrem, Liz yelling "taxi," Rach's nirvana inducing home-made rocky road, Lexi's posh expressions (deeeelightful!), Tash's hand gestures when she speaks, James' stories of faraway lands with ice-cream flavours that shouldn't exist and Nicole's constant victimisation for being a Westie.

These sweethearts surprised me with a heartfelt farewell card, chunky necklace (very me) and a Red velvet cupcake (very on-brand). I was definitely feeling the love.

With a semester of uni to go, it was a shame that the end of my contract didn't coincide with the end of my studies - or that my availability didn't change with my new timetable. The worst case scenario is that I got to work in an amazing agency with amazing people and gained invaluable skills and experience.

So now I'm on the search for an advertising internship to try my hand at the industry I've spent the past four and a half years studying to get into. I hope to love it as much as the course subjects. I haven't done an advertising internship before and am itching to know what it's like in practice.

But anyone else studying advertising would probably understand the predicament of such positions being few and far between. Applications for advertising internships don't usually open until the end of the year, and there are hundreds, if not thousands of applicants. The process can be strenuous, with applications often resembling university assignments them selves.

Wish me luck!

The promise loophole

Maybe he thinks it's not really breaking a promise if he forgot, so he goes ahead and makes so many.

Response to The Shire

Love it or hate it you're doing The Shire a favour by talking about it. The very people bagging it out make up half the target market.

We lost brain cells while they got ratings and money and a shitload of Facebook and Twitter updates i.e free publicity. All for the simple price of making you feel better about yourself, morally superior.

A lot of people seem not to realise that the show was never positioned to be inspiring in the first place. They knew that even the smartest, most educated of us wouldn't be able to resist. So who are the real losers in all this?

Although, I've noticed that trash inspires the best in wit and sarcasm social media has ever seen. And they're pretty fun to read.

Oh the tragedy

I think a lot if people fantasise about hardship. So they create drama where there was none. So they can bitch about it and have someone admire them for overcoming such adversity. Even if they put it on themselves.

#firstworldproblems part 2

• When your hair randomly decides to start parting from the other side
• Wanting to pour yourself a drink but not wanting to put your food down to do so
• When you order something you've been craving all day, and it doesn't hit the spot
• Lint on your stockings
• Lint, in general
• Uni timetable clashes
• Track work
• When the only seat left on the train is the one that faces everyone else