Came home to an assignment
I was very happy to get it — it was a fun one to do. This was for the job that wasn’t — the one I showed up an hour late for? I didn’t get that particular job but they asked if I would freelance, which is actually a better fit for my needs/schedule. I called yesterday afternoon to say, yes, please add me to your rolodex. Then I left for (yet another) networking event and then I came home to an assignment.
Columbus, you may not know, is a fashionable little town. Because of Les Wexner, we have a lot of fashion headquarters here including his flagship, The Limited, as well as his other companies — Victoria’s Secret and Bed, Bath and Beyond — and also Lane Bryant and Abercrombie. Most of the people I know and who I’m meeting doing corporate writing or graphic design have had some connection to one of these fashion companies. (As an aside, I’ve got a friend in fashion PR in NYC who says a lot of his talent comes through Columbus at some point and then at my interview one of the interviewees said that it’s San Francisco, New York and Columbus — who’da thunk?)
I was hoping to put in time to raise my skill-set, my resume and also my street cred. The job was with Lane Bryant and so last night I wrote some web copy for them. And it was fun.
I love marketing writing because you get to be so generous with similes and synonyms and twisted-up clichés. I loved doing product round-ups for ePreg full of enthusiasm and caffeine!
I think I’m going to join last night’s networking meeting. It was with the local chamber of commerce and I really like the idea of being involved more with my community. Also the meeting was extremely well-attended and everyone was having a great, friendly time (I’d credit the open bar and green beer but I was told that every meeting goes that well). I was awfully tired and still fighting an ear ache so was not at the top of my game. In fact, I wouldn’t even say I was at the middle of it. Still I had fun and the diet coke flowing freely at least kept me upright.
This weekend I have to do some book reviews, update next week’s 100 Hats calendar and I hope hope hope to make some inroads on an essay. If I get an assignment, all the better. I don’t know where this will all settle down to but I’m really enjoying the adventure of it all!
I used to live in Columbus a long, long, LONG time ago. I remember getting all kinds of things before the rest of the country because so much market testing was done their. Things like call waiting. And interactive cable (I think that was called Qube). One of those things no one expects about Columbus.
Sounds like you have lots of fun and varied projects going. How nice!
We had Qube! Do you remember it was called … Pax–something? The kid whose dad ran it lived in our neighborhood and his name was Paxton. Maybe it was Paxton cable, I can’t remember.
And pizza at Mcdonald’s — we had that, what? fifteen years ago? Maybe more.
Yup, test market haven, that was us!
Whoohoo! Only YOU could be an hour late for an interview and end up with a paying job that’s fun! How cool is that?Congrats.
And that McDonalds pizza was darn good too, especially for vegetarians who could find little else to eat there back in 1993.
Dawn, I’ve been remiss in reading blogs but I just want you to know how happy I am for you that this is working out. Corporate writing! All right!