My brain sometimes has the tendency to leak and this is a virtual scrapbook of things going on, music, cool little links and photos that I "clip" along with the occasional brain dump.
So, I’ve Been A Little Incognito
The past couple of weeks have actually been busy. And not in that scattered ADHD haze exactly - I mean, I’ve been really busy. With work. Freelance to be exact. Whether it be editing photos or researching press contacts or even managing Twitter accounts, I have been quite the busy bee. It’s been a whirlwind, and I even attended my very first Long Island networking event, which was very odd. I won’t go into details, but it is a whole other world out here. It feels like the minor leagues next to events I’ve been to in the city. I have essentially traded rubbing elbows with Creative Directors at the Art Directors Gala for listening to spiels from The Bug Man. Yes. You read correctly. I will not repeat.
Sometimes I feel like I have made some awful missteps in my career. Now that I know I have ADHD with an odd mixture of neuroticism (yes, I was the annoying chick that always went: “they’re letting people go, omigod, is it going to be me?”) the job hopping makes more sense to me. But why did I leave Ai? There were people there that were making me uncomfortable, and I really let it get to me. Sad thing is, it was the most rewarding job I ever had. They invested in me and paid for graduate classes, and I left them in the dust. It was a bitter pill to take. And I left it for that horrible recruiting job that effectively sent my career in a downward spiral. I learned my lesson.
So now, I am enjoying the freelance life. Working my own hours, setting my own schedule, and working on a diverse range of projects that don’t have too much structure. Most of it is deadline oriented work, which I am pretty good with. It’s different, but now I am wishing that I got help earlier.
Big props to a former friend who suggested this years ago - you were right. And if you knew that the things I said were linked to the ADHD, maybe things would have been a bit different.
In other news, I’ve been getting the crafty bug again and today made my solid perfume. Unfortunately I reek of it and my hands are very dry. I’ve been learning to sew. I am also trying to see if I can laminate or sew my stock of patterned paper and turn them into wonderfully upcycled wallets and such. Marc’s been doing man-work - our bathroom floor was so ridiculously awful that he couldn’t take it anymore and went to Lowe’s. This weekend was all about plastering and tiling. That should be complete by the weekend.
