All in Career
At the end of last year, I lost my job. It was a pretty big shock, but one that I was prepared for, sort of. You see, I'm a worker. I get things done. I keep things simple, organized and focused. It is the only way I know how to do things. So when I found myself with about two months to land a gig, I put the following in action.
When I was a freshman at Northeastern University, I didn't have a clue as to what I wanted to do career wise. I thought about going into business and being an entrepreneur. Then I came face to face with accounting and decided that business wasn't for me. The only aspect that stuck with me was being creative, marketing and writing.
After a convo with my counselor, he convinced me to give journalism a shot. At that point, I was headed to co-op (cooperative education where you get real-world experience). My first "class" in journalism was in the middle of the Boston Globe newsroom. Four years later, I stuck with the Globe and was on staff for a period of time after school as a contributing writer. The experience was incredible and really set the tone for the rest of my career (you can read the gory details here).
Back in 2007, I was lucky enough to get hired by a former colleague of mine who was leading the Boston office of Manning Selvage and Lee (now known as the MSLGROUP). I was hired as a vice president and with the explosion of social media, became the director of Digital Communications for the office.