I find it interesting how unpredictable the guests’ post grad career situation has been so far. Both of the guests this week went from non-profits, youth oriented magazines/articles and other places before landing in the positions they both found themselves in now.
As someone who doesn’t particularly know where I’m going in this program, let alone after graduation and beyond, it’s reassuring to know that the paths of even the successful and interesting people who give talks also go through paths that aren’t straightforward.
Interestingly enough though, another pattern that I’ve noticed that’s the complete opposite of that. Most of this web of careers is built upon structure. A lot of communications related work that the guest speakers do, as different as they are, use similar tactics to complete. Even on an educational level, there’s a lot of crossover when it comes to the different specializations down to shared compulsory classes like this one. Granted, some of that probably comes from the multipurpose nature of apps and social media feeds or the previously mentioned interconnected nature in general, but a lot of aspects such as archetypes can be applied to more than the specific context of content strategy.
In short, I’m not even sure if this makes much of any sense. It’s a (for once) positive contradiction that I’ve noticed thus far that only becomes more evident the more I take from this and previous classes.