Now that I’m almost done with school, one intro to ceramics class left, I have found that my stress level has dropped and my time has started to expand. While in school I felt like time was shrinking and pasted by faster. It’s been almost 8 years since I have graduated high school and since then I have tried, studied and thought about many possible career paths. I have loved the thought of each and of course I choose a degree that doesn’t prosper much in the economic money world to be my degree.
I was at an interview and the man interviewing me asked a most difficult question for me. “In one sentence, describe the type of job Michelle Beck would have for her life time career.” I stared at him for what seemed like an eternity and tried to pin point that one job title I’d like to have. It started out with design and something “arts-y” but then moved to education, and museum curating. Then out of my mouth I described being an event coordinator/ wedding planner, and a marketing/ advertising creative director. Then color consulting to even saying that I’d like to be a water polo coach and swim instructor; plus dancing and choreographing. What?!?!?! The look on this mans face was classic! I sounded like an elementary student being asked what I wanted to do when I grow-up. What age do we say that we are grown-up, what do we have to accomplish in life to say… “I am grown-up!”
I just can’t decide. I have always been told that I have talent and the ability to be an arts-y person. I do love color and design, I do love painting and creating. I am most happy when I accomplish a project or piece of work. Actually when I was younger I use to clip advertising ads out of magazines and saved them in a folder. I was interested in the color and sayings used in the ads. I was more fascinated by the design and esthetics. My mom would drop hints about making a career out of it. I would love to, but I find my self also wanting to make a career out of something else. Like interior design, set designing, or museum studies, etc. I need to make up my mind, at least for now.
This is kind of random, but I also remember setting up a massage salon in our play room, and asked to give people massages and tried to show my professionalism. I think I only massaged my sister. That didn’t quiet work out. Now my big interest is cooking. I watch food network when ever I am sitting to watch TV. In fact it’s on as I type. In high school I took cooking classes with Mr. Henggeler, intro to cooking and international foods. He is a great teacher and he helped me fall in love with cooking at that moment. I would spend my school breaks and lunches in the class room cooking and learning from Mr. Henggeler. The Class was set up with a few mini kitchens along each side of the room. Each kitchen had the essentials like a sink, oven, stove, microwave, and a few cupboards for hardware storage. There was one huge fridge in the back of the room for all food and ingredients. Each class had small groups of students for each kitchen. Each cooking day we had to assign a lead cook for each group. I always volunteered; I loved cooking in that class. One day after class I was left behind to finish cleaning up the kitchen, because everyone else thought they were there for an easy “A.” Mr. Henggeler approached me and asked that famous question, “What do you plan on doing when you grow-up?” At that time I hadn’t much thought about it because I wasn’t such the A straight student. I struggled in school and didn’t have the confident to think I could be successful and the thought of college was overwhelming. “No Mr. Henggeler” I said. He was the first person outside my family and closest friends who told me that I could have a good future. He made me believe that I had a niche for cooking and creating and had the great work ethic to be successful. He told me to tell him what college I was thinking of applying to and he would write a letter of recommendation. I left Mr. Henggeler’s class that day with a huge smile on my face and a large amount of confidence and a piece of paper in my hand with ideas of colleges with good culinary programs. I felt good.
I know your thinking why this has anything to do with art and design, but that’s the point I’m trying to make. Each day I think of all the things I want to do and at the end of each day I’m always thinking about something different. So that leads me to my next serious question. Did I pick the wrong major? Did I miss that opportunity?
I don’t think so. As a matter of fact I’m more content on the degree I choose because of the knowledge of life I received and the many friends I gained. With my degree I can say that I am a specialist in design and color. I’m an expert in painting and drawing. I’m a skilled art historian. I am a proficient creator. I am knowledgeable on material and techniques. So instead of say I picked to wrong major, I feel like saying, this was the first one…I have many more to go!
I was at an interview and the man interviewing me asked a most difficult question for me. “In one sentence, describe the type of job Michelle Beck would have for her life time career.” I stared at him for what seemed like an eternity and tried to pin point that one job title I’d like to have. It started out with design and something “arts-y” but then moved to education, and museum curating. Then out of my mouth I described being an event coordinator/ wedding planner, and a marketing/ advertising creative director. Then color consulting to even saying that I’d like to be a water polo coach and swim instructor; plus dancing and choreographing. What?!?!?! The look on this mans face was classic! I sounded like an elementary student being asked what I wanted to do when I grow-up. What age do we say that we are grown-up, what do we have to accomplish in life to say… “I am grown-up!”
I just can’t decide. I have always been told that I have talent and the ability to be an arts-y person. I do love color and design, I do love painting and creating. I am most happy when I accomplish a project or piece of work. Actually when I was younger I use to clip advertising ads out of magazines and saved them in a folder. I was interested in the color and sayings used in the ads. I was more fascinated by the design and esthetics. My mom would drop hints about making a career out of it. I would love to, but I find my self also wanting to make a career out of something else. Like interior design, set designing, or museum studies, etc. I need to make up my mind, at least for now.
This is kind of random, but I also remember setting up a massage salon in our play room, and asked to give people massages and tried to show my professionalism. I think I only massaged my sister. That didn’t quiet work out. Now my big interest is cooking. I watch food network when ever I am sitting to watch TV. In fact it’s on as I type. In high school I took cooking classes with Mr. Henggeler, intro to cooking and international foods. He is a great teacher and he helped me fall in love with cooking at that moment. I would spend my school breaks and lunches in the class room cooking and learning from Mr. Henggeler. The Class was set up with a few mini kitchens along each side of the room. Each kitchen had the essentials like a sink, oven, stove, microwave, and a few cupboards for hardware storage. There was one huge fridge in the back of the room for all food and ingredients. Each class had small groups of students for each kitchen. Each cooking day we had to assign a lead cook for each group. I always volunteered; I loved cooking in that class. One day after class I was left behind to finish cleaning up the kitchen, because everyone else thought they were there for an easy “A.” Mr. Henggeler approached me and asked that famous question, “What do you plan on doing when you grow-up?” At that time I hadn’t much thought about it because I wasn’t such the A straight student. I struggled in school and didn’t have the confident to think I could be successful and the thought of college was overwhelming. “No Mr. Henggeler” I said. He was the first person outside my family and closest friends who told me that I could have a good future. He made me believe that I had a niche for cooking and creating and had the great work ethic to be successful. He told me to tell him what college I was thinking of applying to and he would write a letter of recommendation. I left Mr. Henggeler’s class that day with a huge smile on my face and a large amount of confidence and a piece of paper in my hand with ideas of colleges with good culinary programs. I felt good.
I know your thinking why this has anything to do with art and design, but that’s the point I’m trying to make. Each day I think of all the things I want to do and at the end of each day I’m always thinking about something different. So that leads me to my next serious question. Did I pick the wrong major? Did I miss that opportunity?
I don’t think so. As a matter of fact I’m more content on the degree I choose because of the knowledge of life I received and the many friends I gained. With my degree I can say that I am a specialist in design and color. I’m an expert in painting and drawing. I’m a skilled art historian. I am a proficient creator. I am knowledgeable on material and techniques. So instead of say I picked to wrong major, I feel like saying, this was the first one…I have many more to go!
Ok, so I probably won't go back to school for all that I like to do, I'd still like to explore them.
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