BETTER THAN AWESOME

I officially never have to set foot in The Art Institute of Tampa again. Words cannot describe how happy I am right now. I seriously feel so awesome. I'll never have another project. I'll never have to do homework. I'll never have to deal with my douchebag academic advisor. EVER AGAIN. I'm so stoked.

The portfolio show went really well. It was super boring at first and filled with some pretty arrogant people. Dave and Dave stopped by early when there wasn't a whole lot of action going on. They was hardly anyone there at the time and they both said something along the lines of, "this is it?' Yep. Welcome to AI Tampa. My boss and the company owner stopped by, which I thought was nice. They liked my book a lot and said my business cards were better than the ones that they printed. I guess I used heavier paper, lol. I got to see some old instructors. Lisa commented on how great of a student I was. I told her she was the best teacher at AI. I seriously meant it too. I even wrote in my final paper for my internship (which was basically just a bunch of questions about my time at the school) that she was great and deserved a raise. I will miss her. Corrie, Rick, and Theo stopped by as well. Good times.

I got a few job offers. One looked pretty promising. It was for a marketing company that needed a flash and/or web designer. I haven't looked at their site yet, but they were asking when I could start and wanted to know how much I was looking to make. I haven't looked at their website yet, but I have a feeling it is made of fail by the way they were talking. They have no designers on staff and have been hiring freelancers to do basic banner ads for them. I don't think I'd take a full time position there since I like where I work now and they offered me full time, but I think once the first of the year rolls around I'll give them a call to see if they need any stuff done freelance. Extra money never hurts...especially in this economy.

I also got an offer to teach at ITT tech. I've never really thought about teaching, but I guess it could be fun. Especially since I'd probably be younger than most of the students. The guy said a masters is preffered, but I can actually take a test online that certifies me to teach there. I might think about it.

I also got a job offer working for the City of Tampa, which would be interesting, but scary at the same time. I don't know how comfortable I am working for the state right now.

More than likely I am just going to stay where I am now. I am definitely going to bring up the fact that I did get offers though. make them sweeten the deal. We need to meet about me staying and work out some sort of arrangement. working there is great and I want to stay, the details just have to be right.

There was one thing that pissed me off royally today. I'm still seriously irked by this ass hole. Early in the show, maybe 20 minutes after Dave and Dave left, this group comes in. There were 2 guys and a lady that I think worked for the school. They went to Rambo's table first cause he was before me, and I was listening in on what this one dude was saying. He was completely arrogant and downright rude. He didn't even introduce himself and was asking really rude questions to Rambo (who handled them great by the way).

They then get to my table and this douche asks me if I can do flash work. I go to show him some examples and he keeps interrupting me to view other non- flash related stuff, which is fine, but he was a total dick about it. The two other people were nice, but this guy though his shit didn't stink or something. I pulled up one of my motion graphics pieces to show him and he just started to talk to the people he was with and completely ignore me. Whatever. I told him that I had more stuff in my book and gave it to him to look at. He then took a resume and I started to talk to the lady he was with. I didn't realize it, but the asshole left with my portfolio book. He just started walking away book in hand. Luckily I had another copy because I didn't want to make a scene and tell him he had to give it back to me. But seriosuly, who does that? He saw it was the only book on the table and he jacked it ninja style. What a fucking douche. I kind of hope he calls me in a week asking if I'm interested in working for him so I can say there's no fucking way I would ever work for someone as rude and arrogant as you. Man some people.

All and all it was a good day though. I'm excited to see what the future holds and so glad I never have to go back.