Really?!

My last post was in 2014??? Wow, okay, it's time to update. This is something I'm supposed to upkeep. It's not hard, it's like making your bed, literally takes 5 minutes. Okay, where are we? What has happened? This post is going to take more than 5 minutes. A lot has happened...
So for starters, I'm not in school anymore. It wasn't working out and it was time to try something else. Perhaps I'll go back when I have a clearer purpose for it, but with my current career goals, it won't be necessary. For the moment, I'm working at what seems now to be the family business: Dad's eye clinic. I once thought I could work on computers all day, every day, and be perfectly happy. It never occurred to me that there is a big difference between working on computers and working with computers. Apparently my expertise ends at working with computers, and falls frustratingly short of working on them. This is not a good thing, considering I am in the IT department. I need to get out.
Thankfully, it is abundantly apparent to management and my supervisor that I am exceedingly bad at my job, and I've had the chance to showcase some of my better skills by making a motivational video for some of the staff. Management has seen fit to put me on a marketing project—at least on paper. I don't know exactly when this project will commence, but I know I intend on putting in 100%. They told me they need TV ads and it would be cheaper to make them in-house; the only stipulation is that I need to match the quality of a professional advertising agency. I can do that. I will show them this.
In other news, I'm meeting with a professional artist this evening to talk to him about what I want to do. I'm realizing more and more, however, that I'm jumping ahead of the game when I'm asking for advice. "How do I find direction? How do I get noticed? What sort of job should I be looking for to break in?" The real answer right now is: you need to do more work. You're not good enough. I don't mean that in a pessimistic, you'll-never-succeed, low-self-esteem way, but in a realistic you-simply-need-to-work-more way. I can't try out for the track team until I can run a mile or two.
Maybe that's what I'll talk to him about. A workout regime.