Gooooood evening everyone!
So for this blog prompt, Professor Flewelling gave us a few prompts we could choose to leap off of and I am going to talk about my desired career and what all it entails.
As you guys may or may not know, I am a Marketing Major. If you remember Professor Flewelling called me out in class at the beginning of the semester for being a business student and sitting like one lol. To be a Business Marketing major I have to like/know a few things. So I have to have an interest in the Marketing field obviously. So I am super interested in buyer preferences and how to correctly market to customers and all that fun stuff!
When I graduate from college, I am hoping to find a job in the marketing field (and fingers crossed, hopefully in the Bay Area! I am from near Sacramento, so it would be closer to home and plus who doesn't like the Bay Area let's be real now. The Silicon Valley is a goldmine for business peeps). As of right now, I am not planning on going to graduate school but who knows, things could change. I don't know what I am doing a few months from now, let alone what I will do after I graduate from SDSU with a Bachelor's degree!!
But when I do get that first marketing job, I will need to fit in. Being that I will be entry level and working my way up I will need to do my best and show the company what I got! I will need to work well with people within the company as well as with the customers I am marketing to. That involves knowing how to work effectively and efficiently and listening to the needs of people.
I actually just got back from an American Marketing Association meeting and today a speaker came in from the company Informatica, which is based in the Bay Area. As a marketer, our speaker gave some tips he has learned over the years working in the business field and he told us that as marketers, our role is to be the wingman of people in sales. I thought this was pretty fun but also very true. To be in marketing, I will not only be working with other marketers but also people from different fields. So in order to work effectively, our communication must be very good.
Okay, hopefully my blog wasn't a painful read! And hopefully you can see what the marketing world is all about and what it takes!
It's gym timeeee.
I am on the same boat with you about everything except that I'm not pursuing a career in marketing. My career choice will most likely me to look in the bay area but the weather in San Diego doeeee. Also i heard it's super expensive to live in the bay... But hey if we are working our dream careers money won't be the issue. LOL but the weather thoeeee. But like you said things change. We will want something else later like moving to another country. I heard there are a lot of marketing jobs internationally! or did i just make that up? lol nevertheless if I didn't just pull that idea out of thin air, I think that your field of work has many opportunities that will allow you to venture out and explore the world. LOL i slowly getting off topic. sorry.
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