I''m 24, in my graduating year — what people often call a ''job seeker''. ^^
These days everyone talks about dreams and passion, but that trend just made me feel more pressure and I ended up unable to do either...
This winter felt like a more painful adolescence than my school days. I''m sure I''m not the only one!
It''s not that I don''t have dreams, but they won''t be realized at home! I finally realized this and wanted a ''push'' to go out and put them into practice.
So I signed up for a lecture through onoffmix.

Among the many lectures, the reasons I chose [The Basics of Careers] are twofold. ^^
First, they were doing something good!
They donate all proceeds to a project called ''Making Textbooks You Learn Through Listening''.
This made me feel okay paying the lecture fee. As a student it''s not easy to donate money directly, but thinking that I would get a useful lecture and that it''s a donation rather than a payment made me feel really good. ^^
Through the ''good lecture'' as a medium, it creates positive effects for the audience like me, the speakers, and the recipients of the donations!

And what I liked even more was that every single speaker at the charity lecture was charming.
Doing good is great, but I actually signed up because of the speakers.
They were speakers you don''t often get to meet, so I had high expectations for each. I also learned about several new fields as I had hoped.
I was excited to see Chef Myeong Hyun-ji in person since I''d seen her on TV, thought Naver Line designer Jeong Sang-mok would be a good experience for my art-school friend, and I was most interested in Director Choi Kyung-hee of Paul & Mark because Park Shin-young''s lecture had made me curious about Paul & Mark.


<Career, Employment, and Plan B - Jeong Sang-mok>

He was the first speaker! Maybe because he was first or because people are very interested in NHN (I later confirmed that interest during the Q&A), from the back it looked like everyone was focused on Jeong Sang-mok''s talk.

Looking at my notes from the lecture, I wrote that I liked how he explained his career in terms of the relationship among vision, money, and workmates.
At a small company he could try working on planned projects and had good colleagues, but the money wasn''t sufficient,
so when he joined a large company, he found that the working mates didn''t fit him...
In the end, I realized that working is a process of finding a workplace where those three variables harmonize.
The place you''re currently working at must be such a place, right? ^^

Also, while the harmony of those three is important, dreams aren''t just one thing,
he said it''s also necessary to harmonize your dreams.
He works as a user environment/interface designer, but being an artist who majored in fine arts,
he consistently took part in external art-related activities even while working.
No matter how much you like your job, if you immerse yourself only in that one thing you can get exhausted, so he said it''s necessary to set other activities that can reinvigorate you and use them as a ''plan B'', and I nodded in agreement!


<Educational Planner A to Z - Choi Kyung-hee>

The second speaker, Director Choi Kyung-hee, was also engaged in many activities such as ''car racing'', ''piano'', ''knitting, cross-stitch, quilting'', etc.!
Perhaps because of the aura of diverse activities and experiences, I was completely overwhelmed from the moment she entered!
I don''t know much about the somewhat unfamiliar field of ''educational planning'', but I think Director Choi Kyung-hee might be the most passionately active in it—haha.

She passionately uses a really large number of media (TV, radio, around 200 books a year, SNS, etc.) and her experiences every day, which was very inspiring and made me think she is truly passionate.

From what educational planning actually is, to the various channels for getting ideas for planning, the categories and processes of educational planning, and even finding instructors—she poured out so many little bits of information nonstop that I couldn''t possibly write them all down!!
I want to see again the Hangul file that was being typed up at the front ㅠㅠ
I quickly got absorbed in the lecture with intense focus, and time flew by, which was a pity.
She said she worked hard on the PPT, but from the back seats the small text on the captured web page slides wasn''t easy to see, which was a bit disappointing. Of course, she explained really, really well verbally, haha, so we could understand even without looking.


<The True Recipe of My Life - Myeong Hyun-ji>

Finally, Chef Myeong Hyun-ji :)
She isn''t someone who has given many lectures, so she might have been a bit flat, but despite some nervousness she spoke very honestly about her life''s career journey from childhood, which I liked.
To me, who thought I was a late adolescent in my graduating year, it was comforting and encouraging to hear that the chef also went through various wanderings until later, so I felt empathy, comfort, and support.
Because it was storytelling rather than information delivery, and she probably had little lecture experience so must have been nervous,
When she talked about Korean cuisine, she spoke confidently and assertively without any nervousness or trembling. I could feel it.

Chef Myeong''s adolescent wandering—when she was in a different place and had difficulty communicating and felt very lonely,
Her wanderings after entering university: cooking - broadcasting (dance, theater, etc.) - announcer - and then back to cooking.

She called it ''wandering'', but after summarizing the three speakers'' talks, I think it was more like ''many experiences'' than wandering. Speakers Jeong Sang-mok, Choi Kyung-hee, and Myeong Hyun-ji all did many things and had many experiences before reaching their current positions, and are still engaged in various activities.
In that sense, my personal conclusion from today''s lecture titled [The Basics of a Career] is that the ''proper way'' is to try diverse experiences! ^^



Ah—seeing what I''ve written, it''s gotten too long @.@


“先去体验！别想好了再行动，要边想边做！”
“把自己擅长的事和眼下正在做的事做到最好，你就会获得机会，把它们与自己热爱的事结合起来！”
“别把消极的想法说出口！”

最后，我想写下问答环节中让我印象深刻的话。感谢各位演讲者和组织者举办了这么精彩的讲座 :)