Category: Etc.

Quotes & Tips: NYCreative Interns Event

What were you born to do? I think a lot of us get caught up with life and don’t ask ourselves this simple question. Some people are working jobs where they make tons of cash in companies they care nothing about. So what’s the point? I want you to not just think about your outer-self and your financial goals but also your inner-self who needs to be fulfilled as well. Since I turned 25, I’ve been on a fast and furious mission to graduate college and change my life. I finally did last December. It took me 9 years. I like to think that I’m an expert student.

So what’s my dream? I want to be a computer programming/social media/blogging/advertising/freak. Since I graduated, I’ve been LinkedIn’ing, Tweeting, Facebook’ing and cyber stalking those who currently hold a job in my dream career and members of companies I’d like to work for. I’ve spent countless hours doing this. I mean, I don’t want to brag, but I’ve become a pretty good stalker :) Since it’s my goal, it’s been sorta like my full-time job. I want this bad.

One of the companies I started following this spring is @NYCinterns. Around the middle of March, I went online and saw that they were having a conference with a bunch of speakers from big name companies on April 21st. Casually I looked up flights, DFW to LGA, then closed my computer and went about my day. Later that week I told my girlfriend about it and she said, “How much is the entrance price and how much are flights?” She’s the more sensible out of the both of us. For a recent grad, I couldn’t afford a flight and the ticket to get in, so I emailed them and got a sweet discount. I booked my flight that same night.

So yesterday I went to the event. A great quote I heard from one of the panelists at the event was, “passion without execution gets you nowhere.” Real shit.

But passion isn’t everything. I’ve had no luck. A few empty leads & many new acquaintances. Luckily for me I love to ask questions and the answer I’ve heard time & again is:

“You need to live in New York to find work here.”

But see, if I move to New York with my life savings and no job, I’ll have to disconnect my phone. That’s the only sure-fire way to make my fiscally conservative Latino parents discouraging words disappear. I think they can survive a few months without hearing from their eldest daughter who just moved to a huge new city 2,197 miles away (I calculated)…right?

Since the event, I’ve been pumped and inspired to take the risk to follow my dream so much so that I haven’t been able to stop looking over my notes and sharing my experiences with my girlfriend and Aunt. I want to share everything I wrote down with all of y’all so here’s what I wrote:

    • Finding your passion is easy, following it is the hard part. Don’t lose sight.
    • Go at your passion like an assassin.
    • The Onion- 89% of networking is non-consensual.
    • Think about what you have to offer.
    • Convey your passion in your resume.
    • Ask for an informational interview.
    • “Don’t get distracted by the no; focus on the yes.” @ardenfaye
    • Get across why you feel the connection is valuable to them.
    • write [email] “I’m sorry this is a blind pitch.”
    • Center. Soften. Connect.
    • “Ask for forgiveness, not permission.”
    • When things stop being fun, it’s time to move on.
    • watch Steve Jobs commencement speech 2005:

      • Look up Bill Cunningham documentary:

    • Look up:
    • jobs at Google. @googlejobs
    • Flipbook.
    • “Daylighting”–working on side projects while at work.
    • “In a creative career, you have to be willing to fail, then pick yourself back up every time.”
    • “Failure is an amazing learning experience.”
    • Get on Behance.
    • “Push away the thieves of your ambition. Who makes you better? Surround yourself with those people.”

I hope my notes have inspired you to think about what your passion is and to take baby steps into making it a reality. One day, maybe even ten years after you first start, you’ll get there. As for me, I’ve made a few connections on this trip that I’m going to follow up on so I can be one step closer to my goal.

ink’d

For some time, I’ve considered getting a tattoo. Only until recently have I felt solid about a few ideas I’ve been tossing around in my brain. But if I get one, it has to be perfect–naturally. SO I’ve gone on a search for great typography. This blog inspired me. On it, there are so many different simple, bold, cool and ugly ideas. Exactly what I was looking for!

But then, I came across this picture.

 

How cool is he????

He has my dream arms and dream ink. How can you not love all of the random shit all over him? But after I looked and looked at the picture, I read the following:

For those of you who may be leery of getting permanent design ink done, perhaps you should check out tattly, a gallery of temporary tatts that actually keep design in mind.

Fail. So now I’m wondering if I should spend tons of dough on temp tats and change my look on the daily or if I should get a real tat. All of this flip flopping is no bueno. I need to be sure so I’m still searching! If you have any site suggestions or great artists you think I’d deem worthy, refer me their way!

Shave?

This is an odd post for me — yes even for me. I’m going to talk to you about body hair and the role it plays in our lives as women.

A month or so ago, I began attending a feminist club on and off with my partner. At one of their mixers, I came across a few girls who had unshaved armpits. I was aghast because women are supposed to shave. Did they not realize how long the hair was and also why were they wearing tank tops??

Immediately I thought they were gay — they weren’t. They were boy crazy and I was really confused. But mostly I was intrigued and grossed out at the same time. It’s hard to understand and I don’t fully understand it to this day but I’m getting a better handle on it.

Here’s a photo and link to one of my favorite singer/songwriters, B.Steady who does not shave her pits.

 

If you’re a female and you don’t shave what you’re supposed to shave, are you a raging feminist, hippie or gay? Nope.

I read up on it and women are saying that society pressures us to shave. We are all so preoccupied with our hair and stubble on our legs, armpits, pubic area, arms, heads, etc. We spend a lot of time and money making sure we are perfectly smooth at all times. We look at magazines and the women in them may be posed with their arms up but no stubble. I’ve always wondered how the hell they had no marks or anything. I realize it’s photoshopped but why?

Here’s a photo from a company I respect because throughout the years they have always tackled big issues that others won’t touch. Her stubble is showing in the picture. O M G :)

Also while researching, I came across this video. Kinda weirdddddd…

Maybe you want to stop shaving and back your decision up under the feminist umbrella. Feminist reasoning would argue that women would be objectifying themselves to societys’ or a patriarchal view of beauty to shave or alter anything natural.

If I was to say I was doing it because I’m a feminist then I would have to stop shaving everything and stop wearing makeup. Personally, I think that would make me an extremist. Whatever the reason, it’s a personal choice.

–Vivianarchy

that hair

 

I guess you can say I love hair. It’s such a fun way of self-expression.

As a teen, I had long hair. Every morning I would wake up and put it in hot rollers. I was the only one in my house with straight hair so I felt special. This long hair addiction carried on into my early twenties, but around the age of 24 I cut it into a bob. It was no time before I had cut it, shaved it, spiked it, colored it and made designs in it. I became hair obsessed! I love short hair so much even though I’m trying to grow it out now. As I was looking up short hair, yet again, I came across this cool site. Check dem out. Anyway, here are the many hairstyles of Vivianarchy over the last few years!