Nickelodeon, Disney, and the Future.
Last night, I watched the South Park episode that made fun of the Jonas Brothers.
The voice parodies were horrible (but South Park warns of that before each episode) and some of the jabs at Disney got a little annoying, but for the most part the episode was pretty hilarious (especially the parodies of the Jonas Brothers's songs). Anyway, the episode ended with Mickey Mouse getting angry, turning giant and flying around breathing fire (and doing his trademark giggle/laugh between flames) and a news person saying he'd be going back to Valhalla for a few years to rest.
And the main thing in my head as I was laughing was "damn, I still wanna work for Disney."
Obviously, a weird thing to be thinking at that point, but still it's something I dream of doing. But not just them--with the resurgence of good TV writing and themes in shows like iCarly, Fairly Oddparents, (and yes, even True Jackson) as well as the whole current revamp, I'd love to work for Nickelodeon too. Either one of those companies, to be part of something like that sending messages and morals to kids while at the same time entertaining them and giving them something they can enjoy as well as learn from. I'd really love to be a part of that somehow. To help create something like High School Musical or iCarly that is smart, classy, funny, and sending messages to kids about being yourself and how to deal with life when it gets hard/annoying, that isn't incredibly cheesy or boring and kids can be into.
And yet, the career path I'm currently thinking of doing, education, wouldn't help me to get close to that dream at all. But then, I'm not sure exactly what that dream would entail, or how likely it would be to accomplish in a recession like this, where really no one can afford to hire anyone anyway.
I would like to do something that involves helping out kids and teaching them something without boring them to death. I would like it to maybe involve something creative too. But that's as far as I got. I don't know what I want to do.
I'm currently loving my LGBT classes, and would definitely like to take more classes on that subject (the most recent classes have been dealing with LGBT symbolism in literature/film/music, which of course I still hold to be the exact same when it comes to modern music/literature/tv/film for kids), but again, that doesn't really help me much in terms of moving towards a career. It's easier to know what classes I'd like to take than what I want to do with the rest of my life. I guess I just still feel like I'm too young to be deciding all of this. And at the same time, like there's a major time limit on my decision as well.
Obviously, this is all stuff I can talk about with my advisor tomorrow, but it's been bugging me lately and I felt I needed to get it out. And of course, I would like everyone's opinion/advice as well.
The voice parodies were horrible (but South Park warns of that before each episode) and some of the jabs at Disney got a little annoying, but for the most part the episode was pretty hilarious (especially the parodies of the Jonas Brothers's songs). Anyway, the episode ended with Mickey Mouse getting angry, turning giant and flying around breathing fire (and doing his trademark giggle/laugh between flames) and a news person saying he'd be going back to Valhalla for a few years to rest.
And the main thing in my head as I was laughing was "damn, I still wanna work for Disney."
Obviously, a weird thing to be thinking at that point, but still it's something I dream of doing. But not just them--with the resurgence of good TV writing and themes in shows like iCarly, Fairly Oddparents, (and yes, even True Jackson) as well as the whole current revamp, I'd love to work for Nickelodeon too. Either one of those companies, to be part of something like that sending messages and morals to kids while at the same time entertaining them and giving them something they can enjoy as well as learn from. I'd really love to be a part of that somehow. To help create something like High School Musical or iCarly that is smart, classy, funny, and sending messages to kids about being yourself and how to deal with life when it gets hard/annoying, that isn't incredibly cheesy or boring and kids can be into.
And yet, the career path I'm currently thinking of doing, education, wouldn't help me to get close to that dream at all. But then, I'm not sure exactly what that dream would entail, or how likely it would be to accomplish in a recession like this, where really no one can afford to hire anyone anyway.
I would like to do something that involves helping out kids and teaching them something without boring them to death. I would like it to maybe involve something creative too. But that's as far as I got. I don't know what I want to do.
I'm currently loving my LGBT classes, and would definitely like to take more classes on that subject (the most recent classes have been dealing with LGBT symbolism in literature/film/music, which of course I still hold to be the exact same when it comes to modern music/literature/tv/film for kids), but again, that doesn't really help me much in terms of moving towards a career. It's easier to know what classes I'd like to take than what I want to do with the rest of my life. I guess I just still feel like I'm too young to be deciding all of this. And at the same time, like there's a major time limit on my decision as well.
Obviously, this is all stuff I can talk about with my advisor tomorrow, but it's been bugging me lately and I felt I needed to get it out. And of course, I would like everyone's opinion/advice as well.