“The baby-creative’s search for the mojo formula”
Me doing a mojo-full project with https://fargfabriken.se/sv/ and Beckmans College of Design, quite some time ago when I lived in Stockholm, Sweden.
Since this woman went solo, and burst out of the corporate bubble like a newborn baby-creative, I've stumbled around, fallen over, got up again and kept on walking.
Still figuring out the best, and the coolest of course, stride, that will sustain both me and the industry for a long time.
As many others in the current climate, I'm also looking around for someone to adopt me into a team, belonging and purpose to make a change. The little baby-creative in me is screaming: "pick me, pick me!", whilst swimming in a vast pond of other fantastic creatives screaming the same, how to make your voice heard?
The fresh in the water baby-creative obviously realises that even though she carries a humongous bag of knowledge and creative beauty, some stuff has to be fine-tuned again, resume writing, portfolio pimping and "how to market yourself’ without being in people’s face.
Much dictionary reading also needs to be done, ghosting?, digital cockpits?, growth hacking?. Googled what "too experienced" really means, I’ve decided it means gold dust.
When looking for work, there’s so much to be done, so much to sift through and learn, so much "reach out cringe" to ignore, at times you can loose your mojo.
Fascinated by the industry, and society at large, want to decipher where we are going, and what we can do to make it a good place for mojo abundance?
I’ll give you some simplistic first ingredients for the mojo formula, the rocket science will come later:
Rekindle relationships, dust off the neglected corners of LinkedIn, move your body, eat your veggies, stretch your smile muscles and build new friendships with beautiful and uplifting entrepreneural spirits. Take it all in and give back, be open, be kind and persevere, the mojo is out there!
X Lina