Nightmareweaver

Nightmareweaver

As a future marketing professional I will be responsible for essentially making brands, companies, corporations and even people look good. So, if I’m essentially responsible for these companies image mine must perfectly refined. I need to look professional, responsible, creative and capable. These can all be achieved very easily through a well-designed website. It would convey that I understand fluent design, coding and the value of competent image. Not only that but it has samples of all of my different types of work available. So that future employers can see what my writing skills, my photography and my design skills. This portfolio could either make or break my career prospects as well as show the progress of my skills over time. I wouldn’t have to email an employer copies of what I’m capable of it’s all of instead of email after email.

This is similar to having a clean online presence on social media as well as any other thing on the internet. Which is something that I never considered until I came to college and my I really started sifting my social media. Anything that ever posted on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook that I went back to and questioned I deleted immediately. Even recently my social media posting was make or break for the rest of someone’s life. An old roommate of mine from community college, Elder was moving from Brazil to America and applying for citizenship. Our first semester together I filmed a video of him reading a metal song as if it was a poem and posted it to YouTube solely for the sake of being funny, and had completely forgotten about it. So, this video had very foul language and was very inappropriate and just a few weeks ago I received a Facebook message from him saying that his lawyer suggested that we take it down to increase his chances of citizenship. Generally, your social media posts won’t have an impact like this but can really make or great your chances of getting a job. It’s becoming commonplace for certain professional places will have you log into your accounts and show them your social media during the interview.

Now, I had the absolute worst time building this website. At this point in my life and this point of our society and my career choice I have no business saying, “I’m not very tech savvy” but it’s true. I had to rebuild my site repeatedly and I watched every tutorial and I YouTubed and message boarded and still ended up with this horrible excuse for a website. This is something that I could never show to a potential employer because I would just be nailing myself in my own coffin at this point. Coding might as well be Chinese to me because I just don’t get it. Leaving my attempts at making a working site were just pitiful. Much like my video project my intentions for this project were much bigger than what I ended up with.