Hard Skills I Have
- Sales
I feel I always had to sell what I have been doing in design harder than some of my colleagues since time immorial. The illustration style I do, the music I released when i was running a record label was never popular in a way where it just caught on right away. Always had to run uphill on most jobs. So I have to develop my pitch on why a client should choose me early on. - Marketing
I feel like I have a discerning trait when it comes to what clients need rather than what they want. Not on all things (thats why I am here ha) but I can see the writing on the wall more times than not when it comes to what it will take to market a product or campaign. - Finance / Accounting
I am not sure if this skill is pertaining to my own finances. But I have always been pretty smart with what little money I have. I got my first business license and an accountant when I was 18 and running my first business. I know how to stay on budget and work within a budget. especially cause most of the clients I work with as of now have shoestring ones.
Soft Skills I have
- Willingness to learn
Its why I am here, when you rest, you rust. - Persuasion
I have a pretty good knack for this. Not the best, but when with a client, or in a team, I can lawyer my way through a decision making process to get either my idea, or a idea for us to go with that I feel strongly about. - Creativity
I have always been creative. I love creating things on my own, or with people. I love just making new things that has a genuine impact on people or a situation. genuinely satisfies my soul to bring new things into the world.
Hard Skills I want
- UX Design
I don’t know much about this subject and its always fascinated me that no one can really explain it. I hope to understand it on a base level by the end of the first year, and hopefully be somewhat versed in the subject by the time I am out of here. - Business Analysis
I think from what the articles have said about this subject I think it would be another useful tool in my arsenal when gunning for jobs with any business of any size.
Soft Skills I Want
- Collaboration
I would like to learn how to work better with others. I have been freelancing for a while, and its like you’re on a island most times. And the few times I have worked on a team it reminded me of how much you can learn new processes, new ideas, hell… make new connections with good people. I miss that, and I miss working like that. - Empathy
I won’t lie, I have grown pretty cynical. Have it be about late stage capitalism, this country, this world. I am here to unlearn some of that. Cause I feel it has genuinely hampered my creativity and overall lust for life. I want to get some of that feeling of optimism back, that ability to take in peoples stories and feel something.