Being a student is much different than working in the professional world. In some ways they are similar, such as both require you to produce content, in hopes of getting better the next time. (Remember, I'm talking about media related jobs and college courses).
Now that I'm helping a company make videos for their website as an internship / summer job, I've been comparing the experience to classes. All my life, I've been taking classes, so this is all I have to work with.
College: Teachers already tell you how they
want you to do a project
vs
Work: Your boss tells you what they hope to
accomplish from your project
College: Teachers have already have
planned everything
vs
Work: You have to
plan everything
College: Teachers have
nothing to loose if you don't finish a project. Of course, they will still help if you reach out to them.
vs
Work: You boss has
time and money invested in the project. They constantly want to know how things are going, increasingly motivating you to work.
College: You have
many projects, many classes and not a lot of time to work on projects. The project is stressful, it's always on your mind.
vs
Work: You have 8 hours per day to work.
You don't have to think about it at home.
College: I want to do
better work then my classmatesvs
Work:
I want to do the best work I can.Of course, many of these probably don't apply to every job. They are just observations I have made recently.
These aren't reasons why I shouldn't blog. And this is probably a reason why I shouldn't blog. Also that I don't have the motivation to keep up with the content.
I always laugh at companies that have a blog or a Twitter. But don't produce content. This is what I am doing....but I'm going to leave it for now.