The Muse: Our mission here at The Muse is simple: to help you find your dream job. So, there’s nothing we love more than hearing about it when you do!
Today, we caught up with Nicole Cloutier, who landed the perfect gig at communications agency Praytell Strategy working as a social strategist with a focus on gaming. Her MFA in writing coupled with her love of gaming made her the perfect candidate to help shape the copy and public voice of some epic gaming companies and ultimately help them get really meaningful online followings.
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I'm kind of inspired by this article because i think so many people, myself included, have multiple passions but feel forced to choose between them because society makes us feel that we have to have a very straight forward view in what we want to do with the rest of our lives. The school of drama, and CMU in general is a very focused population, studying very specific disciplines that are geared toward job placement and specific industries. While this is good and allows us to boast some of the highest out of school salaries I also think we are stunted in some areas because we are so intensely focused. The Muse seems like an innovative way of career placement that allows for people to explore multiple interests and passions. In the future I hope I can also combine my passions of theater, architecture, and history to find my dream job.
I don't know how I feel about the term "dream job". While I do admire feeling so enthusiastic and content about an employment opportunity, I just have to question whether or not dream job is a real thing. I find myself more interested and certain of having passions that can direct you and focus your employment track, rather than a specific career. I think that a lot of that stems from peoples dreams and ambitions being an elastic concept. As we grow and develop, we change. With change comes different desires and expectations in life. Someone who wanted to be travel writer could suddenly want to be a chef, and then their dream and life path is changed because of it. Also dream job doesn't really address anything about career advancement, the ambition to take a career path further so to speak. Overall if dream job, dream life for that matter really existed, I feel that people would be employed at certain companies for decades upon decades. Rather than the 5-7 years and then moving on.
What an interesting company!I think these days, more than ever before, people find themselves with multiple passions that do not have an obvious marketability when put together. For example, I have a friend in the BXA program between dramaturgy and social sciences. If you ask him what the two have to do with one another, he says he has absolutely no clue. I'm sure he, and many others like him, could really benefit from The Muse. I imagine it's super helpful so have someone who can take a step back and examine your interests in a more objective and practical way, finding the places where conflicting passions can intersect in a marketable way.
Despite that they tend to make a little advertisement and create awareness of the company, I kinda like her interview about dream job. There are huge amount of population in this world who never thought of or never able to find the kind of job or professions that they like and ended up being ordinary employees in some companies and stick to that place until the day they retired. During those years of sticking in those companies, they tend to get bored and depressed because they don't like the job they do which leads to not having any drive or excitement to work on their tasks and become people who are not happy with their lives. I always encourage people to find what they love to do, it doesn't have to be anything extraordinary like building a spaceship (unless if that's what you love, then go for it!), it can be something very simple like.... reading books or something like that. If you find what you really like to do, you'd never have to force yourself to work. When it comes to problem, you'll not be afraid to fix it.
I think people at school of drama are very lucky, because we know what we love. And I think that's the reason why people are still able to survive in this stressful and mysterious building, because there's love and passion in this profession that keep us moving.
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