I’ve blogged my butt off.

Catherine Paneral

Jour 4460

Blog Fifteen

I cannot believe I have written 15 blogs for this class. It didn’t really sound too terrible when it was “just” one blog per week. But holy cow, weeks go by fast. Before I knew it, it was Friday again.

This class has been quite an experience. It was nonstop PR. It was hard and challenging but it taught me that I know what to do with this profession. Sort of. I may not be the absolute best at it yet but I feel like PR is something you continue to learn as you go. Ethical decisions will arise and I will have to make some choices. Hopefully good ones.

Thanks to this class my portfolio is bursting with examples of my work. You name it, I’ve got it. (please limit the naming to PR items only.)

If it weren’t for this class, or 4470 or 4210, I would have never started blogging. And while I do think I may take a break from it for a bit because my brain is fried, I think I will try to keep up with it.

I realized more and more every day how tough PR can be. Clients are dumb and say dumber things. I think they enjoy making our jobs hard. But the challenge is fun. I hate but when I hit a wall and don’t know what to do because it sucks but it makes me think more creatively about HOW I will handle the situation at hand.

When we were working on our project for the City of Denton and I said to put flyers in everyone’s shopping bag, I thought it was a shady way of making sure everyone got a copy, whether they wanted it or not. Then we I got the graded copy back and saw that it was a great idea I was shocked. It made me realize that not every idea I have is a bad one, ha.

While the world of PR still terrifies me, I really do feel prepared for it. I may have to cross my legs super tight because I have to pee so bad from being extra nervous while my boss looks over my communications plan that I just put together. But at least I know how to write one. I know how to develop brochures, newsletters, flyers, campaigns, surveys, and more. I know how to do it. And it’s all thanks to my PR Communications class. And the other courses I’ve been taking for the last two years.

So here I go…off into the real world. Fingers crossed.