{"id":20903,"date":"2017-06-21T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=20903"},"modified":"2017-06-21T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:17:17","slug":"its-resume-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/its-resume-season\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wesume Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of the Challenge Fellowship which is full of plenty concerns of the future. \u00a0A couple of questions come to my mind:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do I\u00a0stay in Detroit?<\/li>\n<li>Where will I live when my lease ends?<\/li>\n<li>Do I stay with my host company?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20904 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/elmerfudd-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Google Images\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/elmerfudd-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/elmerfudd.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>Any answer to number three means&#8230; it&#8217;s officially <strong>resume season<\/strong>. \u00a0A thoroughly rough time in anyone&#8217;s life where self-doubt clouds any of our ambitions. \u00a0Suddenly I&#8217;m not a graphic designer that went to four years of art school. \u00a0I&#8217;m a high schooler looking at photoshop for the first time and fearful that any employer will look right through my fake ego.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Future Employer:<em> Why do you want to be a graphic designer? \u00a0What are you good at?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Me: <em>Do I even want to do graphic design? Am I even a person? \u00a0Quack?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I compile my lifetime (a mere 23 years) of achievements, I am eternally grateful for Challenge Detroit. \u00a0A jam-packed year after college was exactly what I needed to realize how a short amount of time can change your mind. \u00a0 I love helping people and the fellowship allowed me 6 opportunities to do so while in a secure job. \u00a0I am now looking at my full resume of working in interdisciplinary teams on multiple projects. I see paper-version of Mariisa utilizing the skills that she\u00a0has\u00a0in a variety of ways, ways which I never encountered before.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the normal despair of building my resume and my own skill-set, looking back at all that I&#8217;ve accomplished, I feel better than I have applying to jobs and knowing I can take on any &#8220;challenge&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of the Challenge Fellowship which is full of plenty concerns of the future. \u00a0A couple of questions come to my mind: Do I\u00a0stay in Detroit? Where will I live when my lease ends? Do I stay with my host company? Any answer to number three means&#8230; it&#8217;s officially resume season. \u00a0A thoroughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}