Are you familiar with the guy in New Orleans that does the red beans and rice reviews throughout the city and posts them on Twitter? If so give me your opinion on him be brutally honest if necessary
hey meara, i’m starting my first social media + graphic design job at an agency soon! (i don’t know why they put designing and social media in the same role, but here we are). do you have any advice? i have a pr degree + internship experience but have never worked at an agency before, so i’ve never had to manage multiple clients.
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omg congrats!!!! making sure you understand and have a unique voice for each client is super good and helpful, simplifying processes so things can get done efficiently, and building out lists of inspiration really helped me when i was getting started! for the inspiration lists i mapped out news sites and blogs in the clients’ niche to get topic ideas, and mapped out upcoming major holidays that could be translated to the client (st patrick’s day x bank = save some green). also save every graphic you see that you like and put them into a reference folder since you’re going to be doing design work too! it’ll help when you’re feeling uninspired. also, when it comes to managing multiple clients, i find it’s super helpful to have email templates saved so i don’t have to write out the same email multiple times 😂
Do you mind if I ask what OCD is like? Is it a daily struggle or is it something where you have some days where it doesn’t effect you at all but other times that you have like “episodes”
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so it definitely is more of an issues some days that it is others, like how anxiety and depression are!! i can always tell when it’s getting bad when i’m really in my fixations, have way more intrusive thoughts, struggle to focus on things, stuff like that. it’s weird bc ocd has a lot of the same symptoms as other things like adhd so it can be hard to know exactly why you’re feeling things that you’re feeling. but ocd definitely isn’t a like all the time thing, it really depends on lots of factors!!
Meara, do you have any friends that seemingly seek out men that treat them poorly? I do and I just can’t wrap my head around it. Why do they do this?
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i definitely used to but the people i have in my life now don’t really. i think it’s largely a self confidence/self worth issue, largely impacted by how they were taught to value themselves growing up. honestly showing them platonic love that their romantic lovers need to compare to can help, but i also think a lot of these people are very validated by having a romantic relationship which causes them to be more “take what i can get.” unfortunately romantically healthy people aren’t going to be jumping into relationships like that so it often ends up being a man who treats their partners terribly :/ honestly as a friend it’s hard to watch but nearly impossible to get it into their heads. they have to be open to hearing and understanding, which i find is most likely to happen if they’re willing to have therapy rather than just hearing it from a friend :/
