Advice on Advice: Take It or Leave It
There’s a tonne of advice out there for juniors wanting to break into the industry — books, blogs, and people wanting to give you their two cents. But advice comes from experience, and experiences are personal. Which means there’s a lot of conflicting advice out there. In a regular column Lauren Ami MacDonald tries to make sense of it all.
never really know what you’re doing
When I was doing AWARD there was all this talk about a moment when things just “click”. Suddenly, you’re meant to realize what you’re doing, and be able to replicate this process. I never reached that point. Whenever I receive a brief, I want to violently fling myself off a balcony. Because I am sure that this (and every other) will be the job that reveals me, and people will notice I don’t actually know what I am doing. But I’ve come to realize that this is a common feeling. Not just amongst juniors, but seniors as well. Yeah, it’d be nice to wake up certain about it all. But if you’re not, you can be certain about one thing: it’s possible to walk, even if you’re blind.