September 8, 2007
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ChicagoArtGirl Goes to New York
The helm of my life has been the Wheel of Fortune this week. I woke on Friday morning, happily thinking that we’d move to Chicago in October and secure jobs once we got there. I went to bed Friday night ecstatic, overjoyed, and dazzled with a new job and life lined up for me in NYC. In a span of 12 hours on Friday, I found out about an amazing opening at an incredible company, applied, interviewed, and accepted thier offer. New York City, here I come.
ChicagoArtGirl23
Assistant Producer, Studio X
ChicagoArtGirl23 (aka Truly) joins Studio X fresh from coordinating marketing efforts for The Six Cities Design Festival, Scotland’s nationwide celebration of design and the creative industries. After an incredible year working and reveling in Glasgow’s smart, exquisitely raw contemporary cultural scene, Truly makes her stateside return this October to New York City. With a career that began in the marketing department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and an educational background in Television Writing/Producing, Truly is driven to connect people with brilliant and engaging cultural offerings. She spends her time away from work with her nose stuck in a novel, listening to NPR, exploring new neighborhoods, traveling, and running for as far as her body will carry her—although preferably not all at the same time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________
What twists of fate in your life have left your mouth hanging wide open?::Random Tangent::
Details and all the fun bits will come soon, but at the moment I’m up to ears happily revamping our exit strategy (we still are on a flight out of Scotland on 23 September), going to millions of good-bye do’s, planning Shaun’s B-day Bonanza (he turns 28 on the 19th), and cracking away at work to deliver the September 18 conference that I was contracted to market. I am a bee!
Comments (6)
This is amazing news! Alright! You are an impressive addition to their company woman. I am very psyched for you but selfishly, I cannot wait to read how you discover and explore that city.No doubt you are busy! Thank you for sharing the good news. Good luck with the bonanza and with the four days after too. With all the emotions associated with leaving perhaps it is a good thing to be busy as time will fly and bittersweet goodbyes will not linger as your new adventure opens wide. This is killer news!As for my twists of fate, I’m still quite like a Dead head holding a sign that reads “waiting for a miracle.” Meh. I keep busy!
Now there’s a smile worth a million bucks!
Excellent news about your new job. I’m continually jealous from afar of your fabulous adventures.
I don’t think I’ve had any big twists of fate. I have little fun things happen, like I once cut through a parking lot to take a shortcut and found $16 on the ground. I like to think of that more as a happy accident.
Really, twists of my ankles are more likely than twists of fate. I just try to roll.But you: Congrats! Congrats! Congrats! And if you and Shaun ever want to come explore this part of Upstate, you know whom to contact.
Well, congratulations, newyorkartgirl23! I cannot even fathom how you got a job in 12 hours (mine took three interviews over the course of a month). That must be some kind of record. You rock! Maybe when I come home for the holidays, we can meet up for a drink or two. That would be fun!
OH thats so exciting!!!! you’re just hitting up all the big metropolitan cities aren’t ya?Ryc: aol.com’s news is super easy and part of the log in page.
I’m a bum. Salon Blue? where is that? and how pricey is pricey?
I’m happy for you, but sad you won’t be in Chicago! New York City is wonderful. I always wish I had had the experience of living there in my early years. I wouldn’t even attempt it now. As you get older, the craziness becomes less interesting and more unnerving. Still, it’s the place I love to visit. And now I can visit YOU!Great, great, great news. I’m so happy for you.What news blew my mind? The day WBBM-Channel 2 (Chicago CBS affiliate) called me and asked me to work in the newsroom on New Year’s Eve. I thought it was a joke. But it was real and led to a job I had for a year.Lynn