What have you learned from the process? Especially anything that has surprised you. What worries you about what you have learned? What excites you?What is your plan of attack? How are you going to use what you have learned?
When we did Ms. Vanessa's career and affinity tests, I already knew what the results would be. I am a quiet and imaginative girl, if I do say so myself. Ever since I was little I draw, sing and write, and always have been a bit shut towards others - an introvert to the core. I like having my own alone time, disconnect myself from everything and just do what I love. As such, in the Myers-Briggs test, I got ISFP. The only letter I disagree with S, which is sensing. I am not a sensing person; I like to be creative, not factual. I must admit that I have a strong distaste for facts, formulas, logical reasoning and planning, making me worried: Junior year is coming, and with it choices. Although our class is very competitive and committed -which makes me happy because we need these skills when we grow up-, it is still discouraging to see Internet memes and our own Juniors and Seniors talk about IB as the end of your social life, sleep and free time. One day before my 16th birthday, on April 6th, I discovered my first white hair, and I'm not even in IB yet! Time to choose is running out, and IB Visual Arts is the only subject that definitely calls to me. I am definitely going to try to find inspiration with other students and be more active in the community, in websites such as this one. I'll use what I learned about personal branding and try to make myself go out there. However, will I use this course for my career? This career planning came at the right time. I admit I was and still am a bit unsure about my future, because even though I have so many options, I'm planning on going for such an open yet competitive area. It is very "easy" to be creative and be involved in art, but it is extremely hard to be successful. As a ISC student, I can choose whatever job I want, aim to be a CEO of a company and I will get there with the opportunities given to me. The logical subjects are the ones that our school is aiming to teach, since they are hard and need a high-quality education like ours to achieve. It is discouraging to know that there are millions of artistic people that are clearly better than me, and my feelings right now can be described with this. Even though the ending is humorous, what I like the most about the comic is that it asks exactly what I'm thinking, "What is my place in the world of art?" Being an artist is too risky, because that's when you're connections play a big part, and also your personal branding. Maybe I'll go for a more specific area, like marketing, in which I can have creativity while also having a stable job. However, what I struggle with the most is that possibility that I will fail at it, as every other person does. I want to make my parents proud, and earn a high salary to pay back for this expensive education I am receiving. Art is one of those "easy" subjects that don't earn you money ( we can't deny that), which makes me wonder if I should only keep my love for art as a hobby, and work on a more reassuring and higher-education area were I can put what I learned at ISC to use. But then again, class discussions with Mr. T talking about creativity put me excitedly back on track, because our world is changing and that now, people are not working in offices; they are working more openly and innovatively, striving to think outside the box.
We can all agree that being a successful artistic person, whether on performing or visual, is extremely hard. Why? It can depend on two things: talent and/or luck. You may meet an influential art person on a café on a Sunday evening, talk about your own art, and then congratulations, you have a connection in the disputed world of art! Regarding to talent, Keifer, in 2007, was the first artist after 1953 to get his work permanently on the Louvre, which you can read more about here. What impacted me the most in this article the most about this article is the title: "The Louvre Now Accepts the Living". There is resentment in my heart - I dislike how many artists only becomes famous after they die, such as Van Gogh. You want to see people enjoy what you produce. Just like I did love watching our play "Alice in Wonderland" and seeing what a completed and visually-appealing production it had become, hearing the compliments, and how it made people happy. These are reasons why the play was my pride experience. However, I must also think about IB and career planning, which I was and still am struggling with... The future starts now.
