I’m starting to get impatient with being in the Philippines because my husbands posting is almost up. At some point soon (fingers crossed it’s before Christmas) we will find out where Vincent will be posted next, and I will be going back to work. In part due to excitement and in part so that I can see just how much I have achieved over the past 12 (or so) months, I’ve been updating my resume.
What is exciting to me is that I can see that I have achieved a lot. My six months off work has not been in vain, and I’m glad I took the time to study again. My commerce degree (one more subject to complete until the Graduate Certificate!) has really given me a new perspective on work, and has also helped me form much clearer career goals. I’m so glad I picked commerce over multimedia or fine arts. I would love to carry on and complete my masters, but not through Open. I know it works for some people, but I hate the online format (ironically online learning is how I’ve made my living over the last few years) and find it ten times harder to focus because of it.
I’m also really thrilled that I persevered last year to attain my CAPM. I know it’s not the most prestigious certification, but it really helped me form a more disciplined project management style. I still would like to go on and qualify for a PMP certification, but I think I’ll wait and see where my career takes me.
And I’m also glad I’ve decided to start looking at the Internet again, opening up Photoshop, exploring WordPress, and using Illustrator. After spending so much time with my head in code and dealing day in and day out with Flash, Actionscript, Javascript, and the odd other script, I felt really spent. I still feel creatively burned out, but I actually feel like I’m getting better (healing?). I can see things and find creative inspiration now! I think creativity is of huge importance in the workplace – regardless of what job you have. To be able to find new and better ways of doing things, to be able to maintain motivation even if you’re doing the most dull task in the world… It’s a creative skill. When you stop being able to think outside the square, I think you become less effective. You just become another number instead of being stand-out.
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Anyway, enough reflection! Once I’m done with this weeks assignment for uni, I will endeavour to post something new and pretty. It has been a while since I’ve done a 60 minute sketch so I might mull over ideas at the gym today and hopefully tomorrow will have a little time to do something.
In the meantime, this is a new picture I’ve been working on.
It’s my cat, Holly Berry. I’m finding she is really hard to draw because she has so many white furs which need to be drawn individually as they are randomly scattered all throughout her coat. This picture is going to take forever to complete…
