Being 24: Look at Me

Like Kath Day-Knight and Geri Halliwell before me I’ve decided that if Being 24 is going to get me a job that shameless self-promotion and general attention seeking behaviours are the best way to go.

Yes, I want you to look at me.

While this might be an idiotic idea for someone with debilitatingly low self-esteem, I need to put myself out there if I want an employer to take notice of me. I need to take charge and have someone notice how insanely awesome I am (that may or may not be true).

Two weeks ago, I decided to test this look at me theory out and use the open letter column on my blog to get the attention of, in my opinion, the most important magazine editor in the country, Helen McCabe. This was the reason for the column on why I’m more the typical Women’s Weekly reader than, for example, my mother. I sent her the link via Twitter and after three very nervous days…she responded and I wanted to throw up from nerves.

Now I have her attention, it is up to me to do something about it and that is the part of this plan that I didn’t think out too clearly.

It is easy to get someone’s attention, but making them respect you and want to employ you is the difficult task that I have to try work through with Helen later this week…which would be easier if I wasn’t having nightmares that included her calling me a talentless slob that is disrespecting the entire magazine industry by wanting to work in it.

You can see why I am scared…but I think this is the only way. (If anyone has any other ideas to get me employed, please feel free to let me know)!

So in continuing, what does this plan mean?

There will be more letters to different people, there may be some videos to certain programs and there are almost certainly some phone calls I am going to have to make that will make me want to projectile vomit, faint and have an aneurysm simultaneously.

Anyway be warned, this blog may start to get a little crazy. All just part of being 24, I guess.