Just keep swimming, just keep swimming....

What do I expect to get out of Cert IV in Public Relations? Well to be honest, a pass. I came into TAFE looking for a new path. Just a slight change in direction. A move away from hospitality. As much as I love working in the industry I don’t think it will get me all the riches I need to live the lifestyle I desire. So I thought that a good path to explore would be public relations. It takes all the personal skills that you develop in customer service industries and mixes it with a whole heap of other skills, some I have and some I am yet to learn. Out of this course I mostly just want to learn those skills needed for public relations. I would love to have them as an addition to my resume in life. If in doing this I am able to excel in this class then that is just a bonus.

I do want to go onto the diploma level. I feel as though I would be able to get so much more out of this course if I can push through the diploma course and succeed well enough to either get a job or go on to university and do a bachelor. However, if I don’t get that far I think that I will be content just getting through this semester.

It’s a hard balancing act trying to keep a 5 night a week job going strong as well as so many contact hours at school and then finding time to do studies at home. I’m glad that I have found friends so quickly who help me find time for it all. Without my Thursday study sessions I don’t know if I would have any of my work finished. I think my main challenge in this course this semester is to keep it all going long enough to pass and keep my sanity. In short I think my promise to myself for this course is to work my hardest at it and get the best result possible, and not to give up.