As well as working with charities, I have also recently been thinking about other career paths that I would be potentially interested in doing.

Since recently completing my project ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, I have realised how much I love doing editorial work. Creating a newspaper from scratch has meant that I have had to think about all different outcomes of it. I had to focus on the Indesign file initially where I was thinking about image layout, type face and thinking about how to make the newspaper contemporary and exciting for my audiences. I surprised myself with this as I actually really enjoyed being able to call the shots and completely create it from scratch. This gave me 100% creative hold over the publication and meant that I was able to finalise the project exactly how I envisaged it.

Speaking to Kellie about the project, she mentioned how much work goes in to creating your own publication and that I should consider going into editorial work when I leave because she was really impressed the way that I finalised the newspaper. This was a really big push in the right direction for me because I felt as though someone actually had faith in what I was doing. I think that it is really difficult in the creative industry to feel as though you could actually get somewhere through all of the other amazing creatives alongside you. This push made me think about all of the job opportunities that are out there and all of the things that I could go in to when I leave University. The knowledge that I gained when using Indesign and working with type face gave me the confidence to finish the publication to a standard that I am really happy with. I feel as though, now, editorial jobs would be something that I am seriously going to consider because I enjoyed it so much. Working in an editorial job would also allow me to work within the journalistic sector, which is something that I have always been really interested in and even more so coming out of my project on Brexit.

I am now looking at jobs to do with editorial and journalism work to see what is around. I would preferably stay within the South West region, around Bristol as this is the area that is up and coming for creatives so will hold the best opportunities within this job sector. I have been looking on job sites and graduate platforms and speaking to people already within the jobs to see how likely this is to happen and get in to.

Speaking to people face to face is definitely the best way that I have found to get job opportunities as they can really get a feel for who you are as a creative. Doing this has enabled me to grow as a person within my confidence of my work and when speaking to people about my future. I managed to get a few business cards doing this, one of which is an editor for a music magazine in Bath so I will definitely be contacting him as he explained that they are always looking for new people to join the team. He said that the fact that I have a photography degree and knowledge of Indesign and Photoshop were skills that they would be looking for in a future employee, so this is really exciting.

My focus now is to get my foot in the door with as many people as possible in order to widen the opportunities for future employability.