The career exploration was very interesting since i never had a real image of what i wanted to do in life really. AKQA is an advertising company that does designs for most nike, xbox, visa, target, espn and etc. Their location are in six places San Fransisco, New York, Washington D.C, London, Amsterdam, and Shanghai. The key point of that day was the quote ” It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be” by Paul Arden. We met Mr. Rei Inamoto a men from Japan he was the person that inspired me because how his background was so similar to mines. Going to AKQA helped me realized what i wanted to do in life and what i really need to do to reach that goal of mines. The biggest thing that really impressed me was people in the field changed their career and chose to do what they loved. My parents always told me that i need to find a job i am really interested in and never follow other peoples dream they were right. I know that i am not a person that can have peoples lives and taking care of them is not my thing like my sister who is going to be a nurse soon i never never can have someones life. But what i can do is show my creativity and take credit for it. I was real impressed with their work that Mr. Rei showed us the commercial they did and the websites they did for eco:drive was just amazing. Also he showed us couple of other ones about the visa priceless commercials.
Also we had the chance to meet the workers their for twenty minutes are first people that we met were Miranda and John they came up with the visa the priceless commercials. They inspired me why? because they both got hired from the same collage that would be great if i do that with my friends work with them. The last people we met were Stephany and Eric they did a little advertising project we had to come out with who is the commercial is going to be talking to and come out with good things that our product will do.
At last we went on top of the building where they have lunch it was such a beautiful view it is right next to the At&t park the bay looked so pretty that day. When we had are free lunch served to us a lady that works for Target commercializing came up and i had a little chat with her she asked me what i liked to and i explained how i wanted to something like this in the future she shared her background with me after that she gave me her business card and told me to ask her questions if i had any. The day was really inspiring in many ways the quote tells everything i needed to know.
After we left AKQA i was talking to Abegail how we can work at the same place and be like the people that were sitting in that office. We talked about how we would introduce are self’s it was a great day for a career exploration day we had a great time. I am so glad that i had this opportunity because if i didn’t have this opportunity i don’t think i can imagine myself doing graphic degisning but when i saw it with my real eyes it seemed really interesting.
