Wow! It's the 4th week of classes, and boy can I tell. My calendar this week is splattered with yellow notes saying "Project Due". Now, usually this is due to my own procrastination, however this is just pure overload. Maybe I just need a lesson in managing my time more efficiently (I know I actually do need this lesson). I think my real issue is that I really am overwhelmed. I'm not saying that the teachers are expecting too much; they are expecting a lot, but not an unmanageable amount.
The thing is, I've never had a job in the creative industry before. I've been an art and film student for years now, but always had jobs where I didn't have to focus all my creative energy into them. I could just turn off that part of my brain and let it rest for the few hours I was working. Of course I can't completely turn off the creativity; it would wake up and I'd have new recipes for drinks, a new way to organize the furniture, or a brilliant plan for Christmas decorations. This is not the case with my job at Buro. I have to constantly be in that creative and detail-oriented frame of mind. There's no one to move the furniture for me in my grand plan of design, just me. I'm not saying that I'm doing all the work, definitely not. I work with a great Audio-Visual team, but I am expected to perform to the best of my abilities.
This wouldn't be such an overload for my overly creative brain if I wasn't also taking classes in a creative area. I don't really know what I expected my work and school life to be like here, but it's definitely more demanding than I thought it would be. I guess I'll just take all of this as a challenge to my own creative perseverance. So here I go, into the trenches of my own creative brain. Let's see what's hiding in there!
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