My servers ate my last post, but meh, maybe it was meant to be because it was a meme. Oh well.
So today through Monday is a mini-vacation for me, which I am really excited about since I don’t really have to do anything. It’s gotten off to a good start already since I was able to wake up early enough to do stuff at home and still be able to go out before noon. There is really something to be said about having days off for the sake of having them off. Sometimes we just need that break from the everyday. It’s also a good time for me to do this since work is just starting to become hectic because of a few little events coming up. I like being busy at work though… I prefer it. The days go by faster and I feel productive.
I’ve heard a question arise between various people as of late, “What exactly do you do?” It’s funny that a lot of people I know do not know what each other does every day, for a living.
I thought I’d write a little bit about what I do for my day job, to answer this question.
My business card reads “Creative Services Specialist”… on first glance, no one can assume what I do just by reading that title. I can take it a bit further to be a bit more descriptive by telling people that I’m a Graphic Designer in Marketing. Although that is a good general description of what I do, it doesn’t necessarily encompass what I do at the office.
I am part of a small three-person department-within-a-department called the Design Studio. We are three graphic designers by trade that work on a lot of internal projects as well as promotional pieces (in-store, direct mail, some ads) for our products, mainly our hardware and most of our software titles.
Of course, our biggest thing every year is E3, which my small department of approximately 15 people solely organizes our massive booth and party, from conception to construction and everything in between. My specific duties include management of the master list of titles being shown and placement of them on the floor, all the graphics for individual game kiosks. Once at the expo, my department is also the core of the setup and teardown crew, and we also man the booth pretty heavily during the show. There of course is a lot more to what we do at E3, but I’ve described the majority of what I’m involved in there.
Another large part of my job is what I describe as a translator between our outside vendors (printers, agencies, etc.) and departments within our company. In order to get projects done, someone has to be able to translate design and print-speak to non-designers, as well as communicate what we need back to the vendors.
Wow, this ended up sounding kinda like a cover letter, heh. Hope it was interesting and informative at least. But I’d like to hear the same from those of you who want to/can share the same info. So… what is a typical day at work like for you?
Huh, funny that I blog about work on my day(s) off.
so is this a meme? “What I actually do at work”
Rad.
Heh, I guess I was one of the various people. My job’s much less interesting. I’ll probably write about it in more detail… maybe later, after I’ve caught up on all the silly memes I’ve been tagged with in the past few years.
[...] I was reminded of all this when I read Courtney’s entry about how she gets asked a lot about what she does. The same sort of thing happens to me all the time, and I almost always say “I’m an editor, for cell phone reviews. I write reviews as well as edit.” Which is a pretty accurate and to-the-point answer, and usually leads to people either backing off and going elsewhere or asking me more probing questions like “So, what cell phone should I get?” (I get this question A LOT). [...]
this is how we do…
thanks to Courtney, I realized many folks don’t know what I do for money. (shut it, Jay). what my mom tells people is: “he works with computers. i’m not sure exactly, but it has something to do with the Internet.”…